Long Talking about Poems

I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside

My tears are diamonds in...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …


Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...

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Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?

False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...

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Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.

Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...

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Year 2031 would soon come
To a close. Everyone will be
A little wiser. 
Damian Junior wanted a 
Girlfriend and he was soon to
Be 13. Amadeus and
Desharah will both turn 10.
The oldest kids had a desire to
Add...

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Salat 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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Date: December  2042

Early afternoon, Damian was 
Busy in his den planning the trip 
To Trinidad. He called CJ first 
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for that trip we spoke
About."...

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~  No  Matter  What  ~
 (  Daveda's  Cascade  )



~O~



So happy my soul you did save 
To sin I don't have to be slave 
My heart in God I...

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Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of 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...

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You are a 15 year old girl;
so young and able;
stature small , petite short not tall,  they hardly see at the kitchen table;
And at school it's not cool;
you're chosen;
But not for love, just..
Lust;
you see...

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~ There's  Still  Love ~
 ( Quatern  )



~O~


There's still Love. Just open heart  wide.
Have Faith! See the Light! Don't be blind.
Just climb each mountain. Dream! Believe.
Seek God each day, with Him,...

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I think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".

And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?

Well,
I was watching this Ted-talk from Marin,
by Robb Willer, as I anciently...

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DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...

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~  Love Faith Peace And Hope  ~
 (  Retourne  )



~O~


Jesus our Savior and that's so. 
Study God's Word and you will grow. 
Always keep Love, Faith, Peace, and Hope. 
He'll come...

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I saw a girl at the museum. I had to take her number
It was like my heart woke up from a long slumber

She was admiring a Picasso painting.
 I knew nothing about art so I...

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How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I'm not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped that day
way back in premillennial times
before Permaculture Design had taken...

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~ May  God  ~
 ( Anaphora  )



~O~


May God always care for you in everything 
May God keep you standing strong and tall 
May God whisper in your ears words of wisdom 
May...

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~ In  God  I   Trust ~
 ( The Ricalai ) 



I see better in God's Light 
He helps me walk into the night 
Believe in God, trust in Him, always must...

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~ No Matter What   ~
 ( Daveda's  Cascade  )



~O~

So happy my soul You  did save 
To sin I don't have to be slave 
My heart in God I can confide...

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~  The Secret To Success: God And Love  ~
 (  Sonnet  )


~O~ 


You can't really succeed without Love 
Love or its lack, will make you weak or strong 
Love is the...

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~ The  Mark Of  The  Beast  ~
 ( Free  Verse )



~O~



The Antichrist, is coming 
People on Earth, be prepared, 
Do not take the mark, 
The mark of the beast.

~o~ 

Do...

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~ You  Are  Precious  ~
 ( Sonnet )


~O~


In His eyes you are always precious you know. 
God made you unique in every way, you see. 
His love for us in every thing...

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~ Easy  Or  Hard ~
 ( Quatern  )



~O~


We can't have everything we want 
Some folks around with almost all 
While some folks don't even get some 
But that's life, better accept it....

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Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...

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~ Without  God ~
 ( Quatern  )



~O~


Pressures in life, strong, too many
The Devil wants to kill, destroy
He'll do this only if allowed
But with God, he has no power.


~o~ 

World beautiful, but fille'd ...

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