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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: tap, allah,
Form: Naat


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Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks II

I hate it when a girl rolls her eyes,
because that means she's on to my lies.
And then it's harder to get her
to let me under her sweater,
and then on to the ultimate prize.
I never once...

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tap, funny, giggle, howl, humor, humorous, writing,
Form: Limerick
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SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND AND MY AMERICAN POETRY

2003 TAMPA FLORIDA I CRIED OUT TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS JAMAICAN THIEVES BROKE INTO MY HOME RIPPING PAGES IN JOURNAL ARSON MURDER DYNAMITE CIRO GARGANO MY EX ABUSIVE HUSBANDS TORCHED...

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Categories: tap, allah,
Form: Naat

After All Is Said and Done

I wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry 
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...

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Categories: tap, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form: Lyric

Letters For People Part 4

Dear people, 
    (Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare, 
to perfect, before performance, …?
    -sure hard to try...

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© Matt Godek  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tap, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form: Epic


Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm

"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking 
underfoot...

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Categories: tap, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Whats Behind the Curtain

I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains. 
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....

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Categories: tap, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Behind

I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains. 
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....

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Categories: tap, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form: Blank verse

Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume Translation

To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...

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Categories: tap, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form: Tanka
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Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations Continues

While family Mingled with one 
Another and strangers the party flowed 
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little 
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory 
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...

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Categories: tap, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form: Alliteration

Turkish Poetry Translations Ii

Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...

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Categories: tap, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form: Free verse
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Chapter 18: Dolly Damian Molly and Polly: Love In Degrees

Date:   April   2026

The 1st degree is unknown 

Damian and Polly had planned
The trip to the Copy Cat Club
For weeks with Dolly and Molly
The club was popping when
They hit the scene.
The DJ...

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Categories: tap, beautiful, culture, fun, good night, hello, integrity,
Form: Alliteration
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A Snow Queen Tale

Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE

silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from

the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.

winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.

the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.

her smile warms
the...

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Categories: tap, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Childhood Dreams Part 2

The three little pigs came to the ball
Tried to blow the castle down
It didn’t work
It was made of solid gold
So they gave up and sat at their trough 
Ate noisily 
And snorted quite a lot

They...

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Categories: tap, childhood, cinderella, dream, mum,
Form: Free verse

Prose Poems

Prose Poems

Something
by Michael R. Burch

Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...

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Categories: tap, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form: Prose
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Spineless In the Running

Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision.
A decision that may...

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Categories: tap, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry

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: tap, dark, muse,
Form: Narrative
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Canto Xviii Hell Translation

In hell is called Malebolge a site
Completely made of ferrous color stones  
As almost all the rim around looks quite.

Of the malignant field the middle zones
Are the seat for a well much wide and...

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Categories: tap, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Don'T Make Me Wait

In the bottom of the ocean
Is where my heart lies
Abide by my side, my devotion 
Is lost in the crowd of gals and guys 
Don't make me wait my turn to receive rationality 
Don't make...

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Categories: tap, deep, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Beware the Ides of March 2023

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: tap, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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Continuous Quality Improvement

"It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual conscious intention to evolve."...

"It [Evolutionary Enlightenment] is a new and...

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Categories: tap, analogy, beauty, destiny, miracle, nature, science, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
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Pronoia Happiness Finals

Brezsny in quotes:

"Bestow a blessing on a person you've considered to be beneath you
or alien to you."

Donald, may your future communications involve both deeper listening
and comprehensively ecological learning
about our cooperative potential as individually evolving parents,
and...

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Categories: tap, blessing, earth, health, humanity, humor, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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Categories: tap, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Sonnet
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Windstorms of Neglect

Dearest Sons
and dearest Cinderella StepSister,
I regret ways I have failed each of you.

From today's view of memory clips,
frames as farms of teaching-learning times,
my Great Lover Eldest, yet perpetually unfulfilled,
AfricanAmerican urban male Thug,
driver of van repurposing...

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Categories: tap, culture, family, happiness, health, humor, love, nature,
Form: Political Verse

A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY

A MINISTER RETIRES :  
SOLILOQUY 

I arise as infant Phoenix 
from Akasha ashes 
counterparts frozen 
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration 

Source Light breathes into 
fontanelle slowly sleepily  
Sekmet my...

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Categories: change, character, emotions, extended metaphor, growth, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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