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Spiritual Mahjong Your Move LordSpiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord
Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before it begins, before I begin?
If so, then to what purpose...
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Categories:
the works, bible, christian, death, i am, perspective, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Dragon StewOn an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
the works, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
How Time FliesIntro/read aloud:
You deserve a bro hug and a friendly pat...
That's the spirit - keep going forward
You're getting back of track...I'll try to encourage you without acting awkward...
I leave your side
Without a word...
I can't help,...
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Categories:
the works, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
the works, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IiPoems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
the works, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
the works, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Healthy Caring SystemsToo many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
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Categories:
the works, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
the works, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
the works, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
the works, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
the works, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
State of the Art IiState of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
the works, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
the works, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
the works, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
the works, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
the works, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
the works, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
After School Jam SessionHow 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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Categories:
the works, culture, earth, education, environment, health, humor, science,
Form:
Political Verse
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
the works, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
the works, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
With the Lord - the Magic 9 Style~ With The Lord ~
( Magic 9 )
~O~
With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
He reinforces all the good and great things that I know
He picks me up for...
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Categories:
the works, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Come To the Lord - Christinas Trinity Style~ Come To The Lord ~
( Christina's Trinity )
~O~
Come to the Lord, He's Mighty, Good
Find Him always in all mood
With Him you'll be strong
With Him you'll belong
Today, all life...
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Categories:
the works, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Tips For Modern PoetsDear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry! Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be. The rules are simple. There...
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Categories:
the works, write,
Form:
Prose
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
the works, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
10 Poems About PoetryBeing a “Poet” Can Be Painful!
I’ve likely told you, more than once, that poetry can be painful, and whined about the need for penning verse
That stems from deep inside my soul...fashions every word...and has become,...
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Categories:
the works, poetry,
Form:
Verse