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Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
unseemly, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
unseemly, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
unseemly, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Dear NeighborsDear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
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Categories:
unseemly, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
unseemly, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
unseemly, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Understanding NatureUnderstanding Nature
Part 1: What (I Think) God Wants You to Know!
Some people don’t understand Nature,
Feel death and pain prove there’s no God
Or if there is He is a monster,
His empathy for us a fraud.
They say...
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Categories:
unseemly, faith, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue Tolerating Red IntoleranceTo Ecological Greens
concerned about tolerating
evangelical
monotheistic Red intolerance
of unstraight
unwhite
unmale
unhealthy
unsafe
panentheistic EarthDays
and dualdark wiki-nights
potentially bicameral
bipartisan
bisexual
binomial
neurosystemic cooperative regenerations
of win/win resonant
robust images
Any nonbinary person
all growed up
in a homophobic
straight
white
male anthrosupremacist monoculture
must not fail to see
to hear
to smell
to feel
Will have trouble...
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Categories:
unseemly, blue, earth day, green, health, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Fat People - XxixUnquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX
(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps there’s also the slightest...
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Categories:
unseemly, abuse, chocolate, depression, health, humor, hyperbole, natural
Form:
Epigram
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22POETIC PREFACE:
An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
according Al Gore rhythm
unstoppably ticking,
when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized...
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Categories:
unseemly, appreciation, april, care, earth day, future, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
A New DawnTheoretical abstractions,
reductive hard word choices,
to describe and prescribe spiritual experiences
are unsatisfactory for daily consumption and absorption
as they reify exceptions to your Business As Usual,
which is probably LeftBrain patriarchally dominant.
Exceptional Left-Right bicameral ego/eco-consciousness,
of natureLeft-spiritRight nondual co-arising...
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Categories:
unseemly, deep, destiny, earth day, hate, health, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Sometimes People ShareSometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...
I flinch, sometimes.
Wince.
Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...
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Categories:
unseemly, abuse, god, health, muse, passion, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
The Queens ConjurerAll things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright
The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art mathematical' to make strange works
Genius of movement artificial
Mechanical scarab...
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Categories:
unseemly, betrayal, dark, mystery, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Exploring Midterm MindbodiesOur minds play
an eisegetical game
transubstantiating our debating minds
translating our felt bodies
embodied contexts
Natural/Spiritual environments
felt yet untouched messages
spoken through ancient metaphoric narratives
polypathic tales
multiculturing mysteries
sacred polytheistic histories
Felt
egocentrically thoughtful
inside
Touched
exterior-invested
sacred trans-pantheistic skin
outside transparent reverence
for all born vulnerably holy
within and...
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Categories:
unseemly, animal, culture, health, integrity, peace, religion, soulmate,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Traveling Death SalesmanI can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In this my collective nightmare,
President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia
like Mr....
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Categories:
unseemly, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Inapropos Trois Faux Pas Jokingly Blurted OutInapropos trois faux pas jokingly blurted out...
yesterday August 30th, 2022.
The following fictitious account
predicated upon words spilling
out me mouth before taking time
to think through how sarcastic remark
would affect primary listener.
Comments about marital matters
particularly ours (yours truly...
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Categories:
unseemly, adventure, august, fate, funny love, husband, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
BREAKING HEADLINE NEWS this Xmas eve day 2023…..BREAKING..... HEADLINE..... NEWS.....
this Xmas eve day 2023
After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more sans eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word, and spelt, spilt, spoilt,
et cetera doe fill full heartbreak,
which Santa Claus immediately claimed
to be “FAKE”...
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Categories:
unseemly, adventure, animal, business, confusion, december, holiday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Earth Day 2020 Wednesday, April 22Earth day 2020 – Wednesday, April 22
Bajillion banshees scream bloody murder methought
upon Biblical (lionized) forebears stalking heads
birthed courtesy accursed beasts hood besought
winds howl across the oblate spheroid
methinks courtesy Homo sapiens horror wrought.
Climate change/global warming siren...
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Categories:
unseemly, 12th grade, care, caregiving, environment, health, memorial
Form:
Free verse
RenascenceDarkness still needs to be a portion of the sky,
It symbolizes grasping the cosmic matrix.
Alas, it did not rise by a twist. It's the basics,
As morrow never rolls to spell crux truth, high.
A spark of...
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Categories:
unseemly, analogy, bereavement, destiny, inspirational, world,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Children's Poem VIIIChildren's Poems VII
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sailing to My Grandfather, for George Hurt
by Michael R. Burch
This distance between us
—this vast sea
of...
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Categories:
unseemly, child, childhood, children, family, grandfather, grandmother,
Form:
Rhyme
Excerpts from GilgameshHe Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many underworld realms
Where he learned of the Deluge and why Death...
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Categories:
unseemly, death, death of a friend, depression, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Breaking Headline News This Xmas Eve 2017After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word spoilt,
et cetera doe fill full heartbreak,
which Santa Claus immediately claimed
to be “FAKE” and accused (Jake)
i.e. Jacob Marley concocted game over,
every doe...
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Categories:
unseemly, abuse, allegory, children, funny, grief, judgement, lost
Form:
Free verse
I'M Dancing As Fast As I CanThe alphabets were standing in a line 26 strong,
The Language Door Keeper knew at once something
was wrong...
No verbs or nouns or personifications, no sentence
structures, or punctuation.
What is the problem The Language Door Keeper...
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Categories:
unseemly, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Doubleboundary IssuesClimate change
does nearly
but not neatly cover up
discomforting complexities
of losing polyculturally rich ecosystems
like transportive air and water
and sacred communion
of sovereign feasting nations
Not really dealing with unresolved issues
like economic boundary chaos
Between each of four regenerative
and degenerative
annual cycling...
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Categories:
unseemly, earth day, health, light, math, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Invisible Death Bite
I rest perched atop my tree branch blind,
watching and waiting
for anything to unknowingly pass below
I got sleek, midnight skin ...
distinct markings of a black panther
I got white eyes that glow in the dark,
my vision...
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Categories:
unseemly, animal, death, hate, truth, , cute,
Form:
Personification