Long Sweeping Poems
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TONY BOLONY THE CABBY NORTH CHICAGO ARSON MURDER VICTIM 9
AFTER THE KARCHER FIRE LOUD SILENCE FBI AGENTS WERE GETTING CLOSER CIRO GARGANO WAS NERVOUS UNRAVELING THE CREW STORED THE CONTENTS OF THE TAILOR SHOP IN THE GARAGE AT LAKE COUNTY MUSIC COMPANY THE GARAGE...
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Categories:
sweeping, allah,
Form:
Naat
NIGHT TERRORS CONTINUE ALLAH WILL PROVIDE
MY PTSD HAD BEGUN TO CAPTURE MY THOUGHTS MY DREAMS OF COMMITING SUICIDE QUIETING THE RUSSIAN VOICES IN MY HEAD THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SPECIAL AGENT LEROY HEIMBACH MY MIND WOULDN'T ALLOW ME REST...
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Categories:
sweeping, allah,
Form:
Naat
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
sweeping, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
sweeping, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of EarthTribe Education
Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?
Oh, I see..neurosystemic therapy learning
and restorative justice mentoring,
including healthy pedagogical development
of ecologically cooperative systems
doing the best we can
to avoid retributive...
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Categories:
sweeping, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Our Earthcafe Coop
In 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:
sweeping, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Revolutionary Story
They called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not...
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Categories:
sweeping, health, humor, joy, life, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
sweeping, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
sweeping, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Slots poker machines unsolved murders Illinois
Lake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
sweeping, allah,
Form:
Nazm
Song of Amergin: Translation
The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
sweeping, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
sweeping, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
sweeping, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
MY BABY
IT'S BEEN AWHILE PERHAPS EIGHT BEFORE THE MURDERS YOU SEATED WITH JAMAICAN JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY ATTEMPTING TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE 1984 CHRISTMAS DAY ARSON THAT RESULTED IN 8 ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH GOD ONLY...
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Categories:
sweeping, allah,
Form:
Naat
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 11
Lumi's hand pressed upon his shoulder in a surprisingly firm grip guiding him into the dining area and to the second of two long slender tables where sat five older elves including DynDoeth.
...
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Categories:
sweeping, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Children Iii
Poems about Children III
Miracle
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart beat, you were mine,
and I see
infinity leap in...
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Categories:
sweeping, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter
"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter"
underneath the static
what exists
is never seen nor heard
for what it truly is
the eyes and mind
retaliate in the deciphering
the invisible return
each night and...
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Categories:
sweeping, dark, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Calculating Costs of Hate Crimes
Wherein lies the great dividing moral distinction
between hate crimes of socioeconomic historic proportion
distorting multiculturally synergetic re-ligious communication,
out-glaring more mundane popularity of defiance crimes
against a more personal sacred nature?
Why is society's right to aggressively imprison unto...
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Categories:
sweeping, addiction, hate, health, love, political, power, prison,
Form:
Political Verse
Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay Dying
Heavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen
In the water pools in the middle...
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Categories:
sweeping, allusion, art, death, french, imagery, life, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
If Time Is Money
Does your money derive from health-regenerative investments?
Well, what could that mean?
Do you make your money, honey,
with both light and dark co-arising memory
of midway love and peace intent,
avoiding anger-fear monoculturally competitive
dominant-power relationships,
and struggles against others,
against...
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Categories:
sweeping, health, humanity, money, nature, political, time,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
sweeping, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
PolyMathic Revolution
Worth Two in a Buddha Universal Bush
Our permaculturist agenda,
primal principle of economic/ecological design,
is developing,
spreading,
hunting and stealing into fissures
fractally fracturing Business As Usual.
Nothing any one person or nation could do
or not choose to do
can stop this...
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Categories:
sweeping, culture, faith, math, nature, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
This Transit Regeneration
My TransITion began there
right there
in my woodland playground,
when I first knew
something right feels wrong to others.
I was blind to curve-balls
hurled at me.
Being "It" is not why I grow
this TransIt mind and body!
Or, is it?
Could I...
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Categories:
sweeping, angst, birth, bullying, culture, destiny, earth, environment,
Form:
Political Verse
Nothing Happen Before the Time
I could see the sun rising in the East
Pulling up something that is very deep
I could see the sun rising in the East
Hanging over the first beach
I left the house at six am
Before the sound...
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Categories:
sweeping, adventure, blessing, courage, encouraging, endurance, freedom, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
TARGET PRACTICE SHOOTING MY LARGE TREES IN LARGE PLANTERS
FEAR NOT THE BULLET HOLES LEFT INSIDE MY LARGE PLANTS AS MY NEIGHBOR ENJOY DRINKING A COLD BEER SITTING WITH HIS DOG LICK WAITING ON A TIME TO KILL I CALLED THEM MY JAN...
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Categories:
sweeping, allah,
Form:
Naat