Long Terrify Poems

It will be wintertime very soon
Here comes the evening moon
Gradually, we'll be shining like the sun
Eventually, you and I will be made as one

Tick Tock Tick Tock
The clock is taunting me...
Tock tick tock tick
The time...

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A bug upon a green leaf sat
Cautiously eyeing up a cat
Who, unaware of the bug's intentions
Continued with its cruel conventions:
Of catching a mouse then setting it free
Then leaping up it once more with glee
Until the...

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So it begins anew
a day to dread, a day to wake up to
I'd say all I want to do is sleep, if sleep didn't terrify me
so I stay up till I faint
an opaque way to...

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PTSD

Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified 
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From sweat in which my body’s cloaked
My eyes...

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Once upon Trump time,
Free-range,
organic,
totally uncaged hens
brown
and black
and even white
and all things in-between
prepared to vote for more green climate health
growing indoor/outdoor good-egg chicken family values
planning to optimize healthy wealth
green ecoschool henhouse natural-spiritual remodeling
for deep and richly...

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Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19) begat...
heebie jeebies couple months before March 15th, 2020

More'n three hundred and sixty six days ago,
a pandemic did devastatingly blow
across the webbed wide world
dark shadows spelled glow
bull horror seeds of hell show
did terrify...

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				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it seemed the thing to do.
Cleared up land and new built...

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Let hope rely upon your Maginot
for swift retort has choked your Gallic might.
It crushed your will beneath its undertow
as diligence receded in the fight.
Your flailing forces teeter on defeat
and any hint of truce shall be...

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In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats,
And threading along the leaf of life, these methods seem a sinister symphony.
Open borders, and immigration comes like an underground current,
On the paths...

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There are several You Tube Biblical scholars that the current Israel VS Hamas
war which started on October 07, 2023 will expand into territory covered in
Psalms 83 commonly referred to:  The Great Northern War and...

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Love in Kyiv
by Natalka Bilotserkivets
translation by Michael R. Burch

Love is more terrible in Kyiv
than spectacular Venetian passions,
than butterflies morphing into bright tapers–
winged caterpillars bursting aflame!

Here spring has lit the chestnuts, like candles,
and we have cheap...

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According to Psalm 83:9 Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength
to the children of Lot.  Selah

 The modern name of Assyria is Syria; whereas, the modern name for the
 children of Lot is...

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Fire came out of  the grave of Prince 
Ruhongeka ( Luhongeka)  Ngengethe Mussabwa. 
After the killing of King Mussabwa Kamango by
 the Colonial army in the battle of Lubako forest, 
The Bavira ( Bavila)...

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(For Lady Janet Douglas; the “Gray Lady” of Glamis, Castle and my ancestor)

Lost in the corridors of my imagination I dreamed…
I saw myself as my own ancestor; 
as if I’d lived for over four-hundred years.

Things...

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Ninety-Three Daughters of Israel
a Holocaust poem by Chaya Feldman
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We washed our bodies
and cleansed ourselves;
we purified our souls
and became clean.

Death does not terrify us;
we are ready to confront him.

While alive we...

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What happened yesterday 
Can change  today. 
When a person understands
His" her" capacity 
He "she" can not see borders
To enter some world competitions 
Where racism and injustice
Are not principal choices. 

Power of beauty and wealth,  
Some ...

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Make haste to befriend the toro meanly reared away from spectator prying eyes
         by dread alone the bull is nurtured and prodded to terrify
   ...

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Gaia continues running on a Health Platform,
healthy democracy
for wealthy economy
for healthy ecopolitics
for wealthy democratic energy.

The idea of free markets
as those embedded in democratic transactional service
to a local community
Is as old and conservative
as the idea of...

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Because for my disability there is no magic fix
So in the dead of night when the clock strikes midnight
I lean back slowly in my desk chair and I stare into the darkness
And sometimes I just...

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Jobs 3:1-26
Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
 Let that day be darkness!
    May God...

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Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
 Let that day be darkness!
    May God above...

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"they gained an understanding of things
from being in the knowing
speak ye that ye be listened to
might those who desire your company invite you

to those gatherings that might include
your name
and your works might guarantee you
to access...

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there was a time when
the delusional 
blamed what they termed
“evil” 
on “creatures,” “spirits” & 
“demons”---
all were meant to terrify
the living whilst at the same
time making them comfortable
in knowing that they had
imagined the most horrible things
that...

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The things they screamed at poor Laura
enraged Owen, and made his blood boil,
to harass a widow who’d lost everything…
Was there nothing left they would not spoil?

Owen saw a police car, on the corner,
the two officers...

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Man:    My princess, I love you even beyond the sunset
            If your love taste like wine,
     ...

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