Long Ur Poems
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Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
ur, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
ur, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
ur, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Frequency
“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately
that which we do
and do not see,
believe
answers embedded
in tablets read...
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Categories:
future, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
ur, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
ur, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
ur, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
ur, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
ur, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Various Heresies 2Various 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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Categories:
ur, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
ur, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
ur, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
ur, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
ur, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
ur, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak
The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play
The prints of feet on rocks were wonders and arts as the...
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Categories:
culture, freedom,
Form:
ABC
For Onion Pt 2I miss the old days where only you had my key
I miss the old times - running wild and free
I miss the old house and your pool and banana tree
I miss the days when it...
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Categories:
ur, child,
Form:
Rhyme
The Exaltation of InannaThe Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
ur, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
ur, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiiMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
ur, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets ViiPoems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
ur, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Aura of Time: Don'T Ask Why I'M An Ambivert***I KNOW IT'S LONG...please don't tell me to shorten my poems or songs because I'm expressing myself through poetry. Thank you ahead of time. I did write concise poems. Check those haikus I wrote on...
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Categories:
ur, angst, deep, depression, emotions, feelings, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
KiloForever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts vaults of favored few points topless blunt...
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Categories:
ur, 11th grade,
Form:
Alexandrine
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz HamFork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Remorseless Sweaty PalmsRemorseless sweaty palms
despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.
Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent wracking wrath of mental illness, that even as a middle...
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Categories:
ur, 12th grade, anger, blue, care, crazy, drug,
Form:
Free verse