Long Transient Poems
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The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
transient, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
transient, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Rejection Slips 2Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
transient, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
transient, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
transient, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Mathgeek PassionsHealthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.
Ingesting healthy passions
consumes PositivEnergy wealth
for future co-productive system projections.
My evidence for future...
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Categories:
transient, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
transient, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
transient, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Declaration of InterdependenceWhen in the Course of Earth’s climatic events,
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the powers of Earth,
separate and equal...
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Categories:
transient, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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:
transient, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
God's Return TicketGod's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
transient, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Bard of Ancient SmyrnaAfter enjoying a pleasant walk, I then spent an hour at a park,
And I relished the dulcet sounds, of cheery airborne skylarks.
The blooms were so lovely, all sultry in the fervid sunshine,
And the hummingbirds were...
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Categories:
transient, adventure, age, fantasy, history, imagery, poetry, time,
Form:
Couplet
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious SleepAh...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings
aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...
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Categories:
transient, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Three Newest Pieces By Mario VitaleDark Gothic Heart, A Valiant Knight & The inner harmony tuned to its hidden beasts menagerie
Dark Gothic Heart
I look to the sea
viral implications take me to the surf
along the rocky ledge leads to an...
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Categories:
transient, anxiety, art,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
transient, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
Mean Economists 404This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists
to distinguish between mean national incomes
and global median incomes,
with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends
expected.
First,
imagine USA mean income, including investment income,
could approach $500,000 for two-parent working households
per year.
Are you kidding...
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Categories:
transient, blessing, culture, health, humor, love, money,
Form:
Political Verse
The Malignant UlcerI see this ulcer
Mind boggling in perception
Body arresting in phenomena
Of diverse shapes and designs
Magnificently wrought together
In one whiff of putrid scent
It is of an exotic nature
Magnanimously growing out of context
Thus ticking with apocalyptic dimensions ...
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Categories:
transient, integrity, leadership, metaphor, people,
Form:
Didactic
Choosing Where To Hang OutWhat lies between extremes of boredom and bliss
for you
and those you most love to work and hang with?
If your Business As Usual day
sends messages within
redundantly reiterating how life is always coming too fast
too needy
too deprived...
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Categories:
transient, beauty, education, games, health, political, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ultimate Truth“I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?”
“Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not...
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Categories:
transient, god, religion, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Free verse
China Tour Thoughts 3China Tour Diary Moment #3
SHANGRI-LA, TIBET
--------------------------------
Paradise on earth: Himalayan range;
A phenomenon carved by elements;
Here magic gives birth to ways that seem strange;
A place where lessons of soul mark movement.
Our tour coach winds round the mountain...
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Categories:
transient, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...
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Categories:
transient, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Whar Art Thou Dame of My DreamWhar art thou dame of my dream?
Eagerness readily overtakes me prior
to succumbing to nightly slumber.
Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed
adrift abed invariably occurs counting backwards
from one hundred –...
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Categories:
transient, absence, addiction, allusion, angel, appreciation, celebration, red,
Form:
Rhyme
Doomsday Clock Minute HandDoomsday Clock minute hand...
hovers over 100 seconds to midnight
as of January 2022,
which apocalyptic prognostication
established by the Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists
maintained since 1947,
the clock quantifies a metaphor
for threats to humanity
from unchecked...
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Categories:
transient, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Who Am I
recognition of our true constitution reveals
we are not merely limited mind-body combine
our soul being encased in five sheaths or coverings
of which the first and grossest is the material organism
the second our pranic energy field, which...
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Categories:
transient, muse, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Race-IsmRace-Ism
What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?
If our differences are only skin deep as a tone
why do we unto our...
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Categories:
transient, black african american, immigration, native american, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme