Long Thinning Poems
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Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
thinning, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
thinning, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
thinning, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
thinning, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Nasty Jack Met His Match - Both Audio and TextThis is a tale of one of the orneriest dudes there ever was, and how someone much smaller, but easily more clever than he was, managed to cope with his belligerence.
...
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Categories:
thinning, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Absorbing GraceTo begin each morning here with now
includes who we bicamerally are,
who we have Elder RightBrain been,
where and when our DNA-scripts
came from RNA-AnimaMundi divine whispers,
and who and when and where and why
we would most clearly appreciate...
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Categories:
thinning, caregiving, dream, earth, education, integrity, love, math,
Form:
Political Verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
thinning, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 12His words stung me, as the cries from the maelstrom seem to retort
Their scattered, foreign words and wails retching their say
I listened, almost mesmerized,
Pulverized
“Come,” Said he,
With threatening authority
Upwards, higher than the balcony from which we...
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Categories:
thinning, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, conflict, hope, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 FinalNightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard
Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...
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Categories:
thinning, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Through Thick and ThinI think it might be John Rawls
who writes about
thick and thin justice sandwiches.
Thick justice
may be more deeply embedded, richly spread
in regenerative pursuing time,
producing and serving healthy wealth relationships,
often digestively motivated
to achieve nutritional communion goals,
While thinner...
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Categories:
thinning, analogy, culture, health, integrity, judgement, rights, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Life's VocationIf your life's vocation
were to plan,
design,
and co-govern
an extended healthy family
through cooperative ecopolitical incorporation,
what would your cooperative do?
Where does my cooperative live?
In the White House,
the Governor's Mansion,
the homeless shelter,
or right here in Business As Usual?
It doesn't...
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Categories:
thinning, culture, destiny, earth, health, humor, nature, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Zeitgeistcompeting cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
thinning, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Bad On Bad Parts 1-2-3-4-Now 51
We've been riding now, for days
On this dry and dusty plain
Headed to a land, that's never tasted rain
The posse has been thinning out
As men head back to town
So, that just leaves you and me
To track...
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Categories:
thinning,
Form:
Rhyme
Making My WayI’m feeling that feeling
I felt in the beginning
Times flying by
my minds still spinning
I think I’m losing ground
And my patience is thinning
Getting tangled up in
the webs Life’s spinning
Further from where I’ve been...
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Categories:
thinning, character, repetition, truth,
Form:
Free verse
My Mother's Death In Iii PartsPart I: My mother’s Voice.
“There’s something not quite right.”
My mother’s doctor said.
The murmur in your heart.
I think we’ll make a start,
to take a look, and book a bed...
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Categories:
thinning, cry, death, death of a friend, loss,
Form:
Narrative
The Figurative Nail Hit On the Hirsute Covered HeadThe figurative nail hit on the hirsute covered head!
Eventually vices will witness me crow king
cough'n affliction caw hearse courtesy
smok'n since me yay high,
hence appellation (mountain) wheezer
natural set of adult teeth (rotten to the...
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Categories:
thinning, 12th grade, absence, animal, appreciation, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
The Voice of My AncestorsEvery morning
When I glance into the mirror
I look deep inside
Deeper than my subtly-thinning hair
Deeper than my raven beard
Deeper than my mocha complexion
Laden with marks
Of life's wear and tear
And high cheek bones
I see multitudes
From across...
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Categories:
thinning, america, black african american, culture, world,
Form:
Prose
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair LineCourtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
thinning, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Growing Up Too Soongrowing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms
and...
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Categories:
thinning, age, growing up, lonely, longing, psychological, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Church Perfect SurfaceHe feels the best of him slipping away
A sip a drip at a time
When will the he and him align
What is he missing
He can't stop thinking
in and out of focus drifting
as he witnesses his soul...
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Categories:
thinning, angst, christian, conflict, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishmentDigging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery plot within Elysian Fields
although honestly, and truthfully
as an organ donor,
yours truly opts for...
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Categories:
thinning, addiction, age, angel, atheist, blessing, creation, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
thinning, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
True Fake Story of a Vita Man JunkyTrue "FAKE" Story Of A Vita Man Junky
(any resemblance between this poem,
and living persons...iz purely coincidental.)
Ruthlessly abuzz in my mind
loosed another idea
for a poem asper
(wren)...
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Categories:
thinning, 12th grade, 9th grade, magic, men, smart,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxx - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like a Pariah Dog - Follow UpIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXX - Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Pariah
Dog ! Follow Up !
IF ever I had a country, a country without a dim shadow...
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Categories:
thinning, america, environment, humor, planet, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Thru a Paroxysm of TearsThru a paroxysm of tears...
I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe sundered fatherhood
yesterday, today and tomorrow.
A series of unfortunate events
(move over Lemony Snicket)
set in motion since my birth
unleashed impotent scrawny infant
registering...
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Categories:
thinning, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, analogy, april,
Form:
Rhyme