Long Unbelieved Poems

Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch

Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.

A lentil and a bean might...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)

These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew. 



Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch

I...

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"Secrets"



I know something 
good about you
you were a child once, too -

without malice

gentle as the petals of a rose
sweet and pure
no need to be berated

proven guilty -
Innocent

From your eyes
and smile 
Light emanated 

joy spilled 
from...

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"The Whirled In Between"

What dreams 
in the time of 
not thinking

we spent aeons
in conversations
with the unbelieved 

deliberating 
choices towards 
our liberation 

traversed 
contracts written 
by the unseen

such wordy 
reams offered, the 
scrolling walls speaking

wailing towards
the...

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True light

When your bright smiles fade, 
My blue birds never gladly abide;
While winter time is over 
I enjoy the fine weather
When your nights fall dark, 
My good days loose their spark.
When your eyes have no...

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"Colours in a Cloud Speak" 

The colours 
of a world 
speak 

no one 
has time 
to listen

The spectrums 
speak like
music, lucid

like clouds
that pulse ultraviolet
in front of you 

through wide open
windows, unavoidable,
some strange dream 

your eyes...

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I know I'm outnumbered
I know I'm not wrong 
it's lightning before thunder 
lies go speeding on 
the truth will take longer
when lies live strong 

I felt a pain I couldn't explain 
I could to begin...

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Life alone unloved is a life unlived.
Do we dare let the truth go unbelieved,
The truth that Love is the only real guide,
Leaves the choice; to keep running or to hide.
To run and shadow your own...

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In my heart, a reliquary, gather teeth that do not belong to me,
but are those of voices I swallowed out of politeness, unwillingly,
they echo in silence like relics of a gentler, forgotten violence,
and I polish...

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Traveling in time
The mind is free to fly
One step behind 
Going to the past for a while

No fairy tales are about to come
Swam songs are not mine to write
The sweet destiny of a prince is...

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As none would be, yet still exists,
One who creates a perfect bliss.
So sensational as to be unbelieved;
Yet tales are told as first was seen.


The image there for all to see,
Gave birth to words and epiphanies.
A...

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I found you in a dream



I found you in a dream . . .

subtly surmised
of this bed sheet warmth,
darkened skies felt,
Lost in silent hours
of a dream

A beauty unbelieved
in flowing night lace
Drinking from the fountain
of every...

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In earlier year pages
 there were the time of sages
 prophesying of things to come,
but today, it is the ground that rises to speak of nature spun
 the messages of what may yet be if...

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The Rebirth
	David Alan Garrick
	1993


A child is born today
With feelings not expressed
It will shine with every sun
And with laughter it is blessed

The frame of God’s creation
With land and air and sea
It’s purity to cherish
It’s destruction a...

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Ironical pain
By paths filled with crimson tears;
May it be finished?
Alive with all hope heartfelt,
Within now confused visions...

Lost, broken belief;
Remorseful mists messaging;
Aching unbelieved,
Scarred warrior wanders through ways;
On stained decisions to waste?

Battles could soon end;
Finish my calm...

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The Sealing

What is that soft wind swirling ‘round the air?
Catching my breath in its Word without words.
Nothing could other than your Spirit be,
Surprising, Love of loves enveloped me.

In wonder I walked, in wonder I lived,
Feeling...

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When it starts to rain
I fear my face paint to fade away
My identity to reveal
but may be not
Not just today

When times come around
that are bad, evil times
They come so quickly
And just keep on staying
long for...

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As I sit in silent thought,

Of all the things I've been taught,

I ponder questions like who and why?,

Why am I here , and why not die?

I think about the simple life,

Working hard, loving a wife,

No...

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Ah!
Sleeping showerings 
Hello!  I have a slight humid headache
My eyes shines betrayed by the clouds
 I heard a makeshift thunder lightning unbelieved instincts Fantasies of my psyche expressive 
Cloak 
Deity...
Who me?
Bla, blah, blah
 Kingdom...

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