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Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
unkind, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Restoration Towns
I was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
unkind, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
unkind, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Christian Evangelical-Charismatic Republicans
I grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...
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Categories:
unkind, beauty, christian, gender, health, political, rights, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Positive Political Psychology
I question my own interplay of psychology and political science.
Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?
Intersections of sociology and psychology are at least academically commonplace.
I have a friend with...
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Categories:
unkind, culture, health, political, psychological, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
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A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
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“Who is this child?” he whispered to...
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Categories:
unkind, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 19
“It is time,” he said as he turned back to the others. “Andghul, you and DynDoeth, make your way as closely and quietly as you can toward the...
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Categories:
unkind, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
unkind, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
unkind, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Health Questions For Leaders
These invite you
to expand your inclusive integrity
by engaging multiple choice responses.
Please choose your one healthiest answer,
recognizing you may often find more than one choice
resonant with your own complex experiences,
win/win WholeEarth open systemic beliefs,
and/or interior and...
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Categories:
unkind, community, culture, earth, health, humor, money, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Your Secret I'll Never Tell
Rest your weary head my love and let sleep consume your soul, I promise that your secret I’ll never tell, I’ll let your heart and life remain whole
It has been fifteen years since the last...
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Categories:
unkind, heartbroken, hurt, i miss you, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes
7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing for “MATCH GUN” (6) that most boys acquire,
Small'S the chance...
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Categories:
unkind, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Quatrain
The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
unkind, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the Darkness
My Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
unkind, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 9
As Lumi left the two, they strolled slowly along the cobbled streets and the mood changed from jovial to serious. DynDoeth's voice lowered to just above a whisper,
“Joulupukki, I...
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Categories:
unkind, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a Sparrow
Part I.
Harvest time was winding down,
I was taking lunch in town,
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man,
Guessed he was a harvest hand,
His combine crew, he said,...
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Categories:
unkind, faith, loss, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Jesus Told Me
Jesus taught and lived
Those who follow the Way
Truth
Life, rather than punishing death,
would be known
by our love,
especially for our enemies.
He did not say, or live,
Those who punish themselves and others with death threats
and war planning
and technology...
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Categories:
unkind, community, culture, health, history, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto Vi
Continues the translation of the great Dante's poem written 700 years ago,
probably the most important poetry ever written in the human story
When my mind returned back, after the stop
Due to pity for two brothers...
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Categories:
unkind, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Scent of Paddy Flower
Scent Of Paddy Flower
...
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Categories:
unkind, art, childhood, hope, journey, life, philosophy, water,
Form:
Epic
The Dancing: the Return Thereof
Prelude
After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole
But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...
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Categories:
unkind, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon Healthy Time
Once within eternal time
of pre-LeftBrain domination,
I recall breathing in
EarthMother's richly hued nutrition,
and this Other inhaling me,
purging lungs of misperceptions
that I was Her
any more or less than S/he was me.
We owned this communion together,
sacred breath...
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Categories:
unkind, birth, culture, history, integrity, nature, science, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Good Girl
The Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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Categories:
unkind, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
The Two Mothers in Me
Good mother, bad mother, locked in a war, ...
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Categories:
unkind, angst, conflict, fear, how i feel, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Cyberstalking Nightmare
Back in two thousand plus some years more of five,
When computers I'd just met, didn't yet with jive;
When a computer was just a box of technology,
A box of fascination and luring like a giant mystery,
I...
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Categories:
unkind, abuse, bullying, courage, evil, internet, jealousy, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor
This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be available in e-book, softcover, and hardcover formats upon release. Available...
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Categories:
unkind, anxiety, depression, family, inspiration, mental health, true
Form:
Free verse