Long Suffering Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
suffering, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Trump In MotionTRUMP SMELLS B.O.
TRUMP SMELLS B.O.
BUST UP THE BEAT TO INTRODUCE IT'S TEMPO
GOT ME PLACES TO GO
SILENCE IS GOLDEN GOT BLOOD THAT"S UNFOLDING
SITS IN HIS IVORY TOWER ENGAGED IN THE WALL WHILE HE SITS IN HIS...
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Categories:
suffering, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
suffering, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
suffering, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
*
Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
suffering, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
suffering, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
The Storm Is In the CalmThe angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
suffering, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
suffering, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Life Beloving Dualdark Night
Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
of history's posthumous demise,
post-humorous as hell.
What good is death
if it cannot at least invite eternal engagement?
Hopeful...
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Categories:
suffering, death, depression, humor, identity, life, love, science,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
suffering, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
suffering, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34I listened to his heart profusely,
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings meant to me
They...
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Categories:
suffering, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings, heart, leadership, psychological,
Form:
Epic
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
suffering, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
suffering, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
suffering, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
suffering, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
suffering, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
FireGod Speaks OutAngry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"
Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that I invited you for my interview,
which would involve me asking...
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Categories:
suffering, culture, destiny, fire, health, religion, science, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
The Thc OrdinanceI am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
suffering, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
suffering, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Reclusive AccountabilitiesI am sick of excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid responsibility
with "I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I judge situations and relationships,
assess potential risks to care and nourishing...
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Categories:
suffering, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Who's Crazy NowI have an outside RightBrain dominant thalamus
to watch and listen to,
to feel confluent and resonant with,
to love,
as parent with child,
yet this is more of a mutual-mentoring of
notsad-notsad sustainable bliss
within our normally limited nutritional sensory environment.
My...
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Categories:
suffering, body, dream, health, humor, identity, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Messages For Regenerating TimeThis revolutionary message
is brought to you by
the
TransMillennial EarthTribe CoOperative,
your international ecopolitical sponsor,
speciating Earth's New PostMillennially Silent EcoLogical Majority.
We think we begin to both comprehend,
in a B. Fullerian metaphysical sense,
and co-empathically trust,
in an economic and...
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Categories:
suffering, culture, health, humor, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Is a New Day - the Linked Style~ Is A New Day ~
( Linked )
~O~
Is a new day
I
Day to thank God
S
God praise for all
A
All...
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Categories:
suffering, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger Than Fiction*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
suffering, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse