Long Unwhole Poems

Various Heresies 2

You
by Michael R. Burch

For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.

For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...

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This is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].

In the second, of two, sections,
the Dalai Lama discusses,
in most excruciating therapeutic detail,
emotional positive v negative...

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“Tessellate” 

on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate

inadvertent 
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks 

with the other sides
planned strategic functional 
quantity rich quality lacking

Human

our words our ways
opposites 
like magnets attract, it all fits 

we think it...

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ReGenerating MultiCultural Ecologies

Our unwhole Uniting States'
degenerative republic governing system
was designed by white patriarchal representatives
to expand our polarizing divide
between what a true European Native USA Representative
Senator
CEO supremely looks like,
resonantly sounds like,
resilient health feels like
competing WinLose defensive...

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In a realm far and distant from our own, An ancient forest lay, its secrets unknown. A world where magic and nature entwined, Its spirits and essence not easily defined.

Tales spoke of a wizard old...

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i'm outta control i thought i had issues my mom's got 8 ****in crazy personallities up in her skull you did'nt ****in raise me did you what slut im real and it's true i was...

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You could've just drank whiskey like a smart man
Drown your sorrows in enough beer to drown a fish
Smoked enough cigarettes to burn your house down
Taken a walk

Pull up your mask and walk in for the...

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If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
would you perhaps reflect and wonder how
I have longed to hear your...

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Dust storms in my mouth

My words are withered

In the searing gaze
Of her dirty eyes.

I am brittle clay
Parched for renewal
Awaiting the rain.


My walls form a tomb

When she is closed outside



And I am that ghost
That walks out...

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Since Adam’s fall the human race
has been stuck in a hostile space.
The evil forces wage a war,
God’s pure image they seek to tar.

This war is fought within our hearts,
with thoughts that wound like whizzing darts.
The...

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What is love, can one survive with love alone?

Disreguarding the downfalls can one remain strong?

Just bc he says "I love you " does that make it true?

Leaving you to wonder, What is there left to...

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I was wandering through what I thought I'd destroyed
I was wondering where would I lose all these joys
Untruth's bruise upon my soul
Losing lies that made me whole

There was once such a time when I felt...

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 I am not a warrior
My skin is pale and soft
I am not the kindest spirit
My words can hurt you to the bone

I am not purest serenity
I am fragile and unwhole
but my eyes own warm...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE IX

Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch

Meg, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...


The Less-Than-Divine Results of My Prayers to be Saved from...

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I stand amongst the shadows where the light and dark divide

In a struggle for my sanity Pandora's box has opened wide

Madness calls me forward whilst defiance holds me back

Am I just another wanderer who falls...

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Veil of midnight, shroud of ache,  
A hollow heart begins to wake,  
Unfed, unwhole, in shadow curled,  
Craving life within this world.  

A wraith unseen yet bound to thirst,  
The...

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As she watched the moon die in the darkest of skies
Such a longing desire washed over her soul
How she desperately yearned for a way to deny
How everything inside her was fading, unwhole

As she stared, her...

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I now see every perspective of how it was.
But there is no denying I learned long before
How to love someone despite both of our flaws.
Lessons learned thru all that made me "feel" more.

The past becomes...

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Anonymous whispers, blowing secrets,
softly blown air through lips, syllables 
like sidelong glances down cafeteria tables, 
avoid directness, avoid contact, see, 
girls nearly women don’t speak of love in the same sentence as sex, 
girls in...

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In a thriving city a boy was born,
growing up melancholy and forlorn,
thoughtful, with a poet's sensitive soul,
he knew he was different and unwhole.
His life would be both rose and piercing thorn.

He took to the road, and...

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Take away the frost of winter,
rid the land of biting snow,
then who would praise the warmth of August,
how could April rivers flow?

Hush the deafening crash of thunder,
dull the flash of lightning's thorn,
and who would feel...

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I can find no galaxies in your eyes
So desperate, fervently, I may seek
No single star, no glow, fills your dark skies
No lovely nebulae of which to speak
There is no life, pure life, that swells within
No...

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Shattered,battered,tattered soul
living half a life,
unwhole.
wake to scream your inner anguish
in the mirror you must languish.
Push and pull your wounded shell
keep ing silence,
never tell,
any living thing of flights
taken through the starry nights
to the land of make...

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A Victim is what it is...

Torn apart and unwhole

Feeling helpless and all alone.

Looking over one's shoulder

Never to know...

To run to hide one knows not where.

Is he here or is he there?

This stalker of the night...

I...

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