Long Utility Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
utility, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
utility, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Watering Gaian GraceOne of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom
Is to explore together
how and...
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Categories:
utility, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
People of FaithIt's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
utility, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
utility, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
utility, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
utility, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Georges Scoriety BashPicture this..? Seedy joint.'mediocre comedy one Kiev night.
Hunky billionaire bored and sour, joins his guests Uneventful hour.?
A pan faced man is on the stage, mocking life with inward rage.
George faintly get the vibe, listens more...
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Categories:
utility, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Eternity's Viral HourglassThat which is neutral,
no big deal,
normal,
not noticed,
enjoys an intimate mirror effect,
behaves and misbehaves
with the logic of eternity.
Time steers virally clockwise,
eastern dawn toward west's setting sun,
birth through death,
with day's completion duskly hoping
for red skies at night.
Time...
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Categories:
utility, culture, destiny, environment, math, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form:
Free verse
In My Bicameral HomeIn my universal-Left and unitarian-Right bicameral home
"crazy" has two functions,
ballistic weapon Left
aimed Right at Other,
ballast Right
anchoring EgoSelf within EcoOther.
"Crazy"
when that begins with "you are"
marginalizes
dispossesses nutritional powers of functionality
with dire political and economic consequences
of appropriate fear...
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Categories:
utility, analogy, culture, fear, love, political, relationship, rights,
Form:
Free verse
Moose MedicineIf love is a metaphysical word
for physical synergy,
and synergy is
Fullerian-Eulerian-Einsteinian-Jaynesian
prime binomial integrating TransParency,
ProGenitor Time of Tao's
nondual co-arising gravity,
merging and emerging in-formation
into this continuing
yet culminating
Great Transition Evolution
of Left-Right bicameral eco-consciousness,
co-empathic ecopolitical trust,
Then,
to nuance Joanna Macy,
"Active...
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Categories:
utility, destiny, dream, introspection, joy, love, nature, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Contenting Tree of LifeFutility of Contention
absorbs into Utility of Contentment.
To preserve wholeness, mutually accommodate;
yielding preserves whole.
To become straight, you must begin bent;
bent potentiates straight.
To become filled, its best to begin...
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Categories:
utility, beauty, creation, culture, health, integrity, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Badnews SuspensionIt helps me to optimize possible health-improving wealth outcomes
by temporarily suspending disbelief
we have each chosen to be spiritually reborn into
each and every WinWin opportunity
to optimize mutual healthy-wealth
naturally developed for cooperatively-owned
and integratively managed
personal enrichment
extending families
and...
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Categories:
utility, games, health, history, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
What Remains Within - Remorse and Pain, of Course, Reduces To RainDeliver my shattered soul –
It has done more harm than good
I felt darkness take its toll
When I wore the abyss shirt with a hood…
Shadows dare to consume me
Darkness will disappear drastically
Crows get scared away...
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Categories:
utility, confidence, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, pain, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Requisite Inspection June 29th, 2022 At Apartment B44Requisite inspection June 29th, 2022 at Apartment B44
Aforementioned title and following
little known verses of Matthew
finds me feeling squeamish,
peevish, anguish, et cetera
at our (the missus and mine) digs,
cuz low income rental housing regulations
require safe and...
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Categories:
utility, 12th grade, adventure, america, anxiety, business, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Using Outdoor VoicesIt feels easier to me
to recall and eagerly embrace
what remains sacred in humane nature
while outside
listening to surf and winds
of exterior EarthSouled nature.
It seems easier to fill our cathedrals
and capitals
with cupolas of resounding
one resonant inside voice,
but...
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Categories:
utility, caregiving, garden, health, humor, integrity, peace, song,
Form:
Political Verse
Allow me to Lift the CurtainRight up until you were honest
I found hope in the regressing of your sentences
From fine wine to a poisoned chalice
Remembering you in the corner of the grocery store
Sparked the overwhelming urge...
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Categories:
utility, angst, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
The Sun is Shining AgainThe sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the branches swinging from limb to limb while my heart entertains...
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Categories:
utility, america, body, change, community, deep, environment, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Norwick's Head PoobahI was interviewing the Head Poobah
of our Norwick Public Utility CoOperative
and asked him
Where did the 22 percent goal come from
for acquiring renewable energy?
As compared to 78 percent from nonrenewable
and guaranteed increasingly costly electricity sources
like burned-out...
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Categories:
utility, earth, environment, green, health, humor, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Dream DialoguesLast night
R. D. Laing
re-searched for his original Politics of Experience.
This political research
transubstantiates through sensory-neural communion
of felt right-brain experience
re-gained through integral therapeutic re-lateralship
with MotherEarth's here re-nowed
cooperative/competitive rhetorical events
empowering further synergetic re-search...
Then Patrick J. Deneen
responded with...
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Categories:
utility, creation, dream, environment, health, integrity, lost love,
Form:
Political Verse
Garden Talegardens are where we are:
from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
from mountain to coast, town to country
from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...
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Categories:
utility, garden, places, space,
Form:
Free verse
Murderapolis Streets, Claim Two More Young HeartbeatsNative, Liteskin, sun kissed
smiles
sit, talk, get to know me
a while
for I am not my skin and
even though the tan pigment
runs deep
I am my heart, thoughts
and actions,reflection of
company
I keep
A car accident took
my Homies brother...
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Categories:
utility, brother, death, family, friendship, introspection, loss, lost
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of South Dakota Part 2The surrounding grounds were prairie grasses and brush. Trees were
scattered along the west boundary while the eastern area was furnished with a
heavier growth of various kinds of trees. Willows and buffalo...
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Categories:
utility, inspirational, life, love, school, growth, school,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ode To Helen Steiner Rice - the Blood Quill Style~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~
(1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )
Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of Love, Faith, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister and wife
She fought hard all thru her...
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Categories:
utility, beautiful, faith, love, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
ReparationsA man's first right is to his own country:
That place by choice that was his father's hope
Before. His breathing make its history,
Its death is his shackles, his dream its scope.
This was the first discord jarring...
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Categories:
utility, black african american, history, inspirational, god, children,
Form:
Verse