Long Truisms Poems

Trump Poems and Epigrams VI


Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.

May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger and deeper moats
as part of my sweet...

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Hold me within the virtual chalice of righteous
And never let me stray too long amid the imperfection of this body
From this visage of dignity, once poured upon my soul...
That not deceit nor hypocracy become the...

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"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                            ...

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Diamonds are a dangerous commodity.
Topaz brickettes pave lost roads 
for the unfortunate paths 
of bewildered Dorothy's
(and misguided second-removed cousins).
The birthday cards
I send myself,
are never returned to sender;
they're forwarded to you.

Rubies are ominous and a crucial...

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Securely bound within these the shackles of darkness!?

Submerged aneath their versions mirky waters 

Swirling inside merely moments, left afore drowning....

Consciousness slipping away as thoughts of life

Drift through his mind this, colophons final touch

Highlighting every link...

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Michael, the archangel,
was found dead on my lawn this morning -
stuffed inside a Gestapo boot. 
Crisp, black leather 
containing the remnants 
of abandoned halos and wasted youth,
boiled in a caldron of political mire.

A hierarchy of...

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adrenaline dancing within
& warmth raising to all 
erogenous areas, the privacy
is delicate & rare, the 
wonder is new & elusive,
drifting away, drifting away,
as from the fingertips &
yet the object of your affection
is in front of...

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("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)

Love is Love - and other absurd truisms

“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to deflect the moral agency 
and subsequent consequence of our desires
with...

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Lovely dreams; purple caribous and pink giraffes amid marvels placebo cycles....

Twineful fertile world always trying to inject its truisms twinkling 

Twenty milligrams of cloaked melancholy; and misery loves company?!

As gazing into the storefront window at...

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A Valentine Write For My One & Only Street Angel -

I met you in a town of a thousand hustles,
a big stage supporting a million words,
a large world where the hunted & hunter interchange desires,
our...

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Don't put your best years behind you.

Failures are best made on our own terms.

Success tells one they can succeed. 

A warm person is often the happiest. 

Money puts escape holes in one's pocket. 

Hugs are...

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If all writing is, indeed, a mere ruse,
Why do I need an inspirational muse,
or editor my syntax to masseuse
Mind's eye is vapid and obtuse;
My brain is calling an immediate truce
Inane pretenses no longer refuse,
and with...

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The Bolted Brain

      Like permanently set cement.
      Ever try to speak to one?
      Whose vacant eyes just glow!
  ...

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Words reside alone in time and space;
Only sentient minds their roots trace.
Etymologists bring accents, forms to the surface;
Lexicographers establish a chronological base.
In dark, library basements, archivists file in database;
In academic institutes, linguists their value appraise.
Calligraphers,...

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If you chase death, it might not be your life that is cut short.

Don't put your keys in the same pocket as your cell phone.

One source for news heralds only one outcome.

Communities make cents, governments...

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