Long Vale of tears Poems

Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch

Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...

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                       I
 Was on a winter morn gently put
   to ground,...

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It seems appropriate this Easter Sunday [4/21/19] as I write this to ask THE question humans have asked since we developed our unique-- to the animal kingdom-- self-awareness: is death the meaning of life? Are...

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Edward, remember this.
            Just like you were a caterpillar
            Before you became a...

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(A Long Agonizing Conversion.



Out of the dark forbidding night,

 I Struggle now to see the light.

 I never felt this way before,

 Loved the lair of darkness more.



 Was careful in nothing, no good to...

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Oh, precious one, I need you...
        Be the missing ying to my yang.
         Come on home to a safe haven
...

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 Here's to those who
        Don't get the kudos they deserve:
              Perhaps you're too humble,
...

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Deafening Silence
By Sy Roth

Are they going to die like that 
Buried under the silt of time with it all unresolved?
Are they a ribonucleic disaster, a broken string of DNA 
Deposited in a weary, weeping womb?...

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War is ghastly, 
           And astronomically costly. 
       Trillions of US dollars to fund it.
    ...

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Serius, Arch Nemisis of such bliss
that you woulodn't know to miss
the beating of your heart inside 
or the doors of hades swinging wide

and the gentlest carresses of the dragons tongue
leaving traces of sulphourous flaming nether-dung
'pon...

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Collaboration with Edward Ibeh

Oh, precious one, I need you…
Be the missing ying to my yang.
Come on home to a safe haven
In this warm, cozy heart of mine
Stay forever more, I implore thee, because…
Without you, there’s...

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Serius, Arch Nemisis of such bliss
that you woulodn't know to miss
the beating of your heart inside 
or the doors of hades swinging wide

and the gentlest carresses of the dragons tongue
leaving traces of sulphourous flaming nether-dung
'pon...

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In the whirlwind of your presence,  
I was spun through the mangle of your gaze,  
Interrogated by your grilling smiles  
Each question a probing dagger in my mind.  

And when you...

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Great Jehovah 

(Set to John Williams Schindler's list theme)

Great Jehovah, as we weep
We turn our hearts to thee.
As the storms of evil sweep us
In your loving arms you keep us.
Underneath an unforgiving sky
Not for us...

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We are the story tellers,
Once of nature loving best.
River and mountain lake and forest
Teaming life of air or land.
We loved the wolf, big hearted proud
The stubborn boar reclusive bear.
Each with spirit man endowed them
To tell...

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WHAT   EASTER   MEANS   TO   ME


………  and into the city of god rode this man,
following the road to his  end and  beginning  -
our palm...

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Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy*
Born the Savior who set us free
Our Life, our Sweetness, and our Hope*
Give us strength to maintain and cope

*To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve*
As at the...

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Her Side
By Sy Roth

Are they going to die like that?
Expire
Retire 
As a broken, opalic string of DNA
Ribonucleic disaster
Worm-eaten womb 
Ascerbic molecules.

Who enabled this procreatic mission?

They rimed it with a urine trail
Left --Her side
Discordant disdain
Heeding her...

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My quest for what is honorable and right
Compels me to enter the constant fight
For justice and mercy, compassionate love,
I can be a despicable vulture or a peaceful dove
When I leave this tumultuous vale of tears,
I...

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"Victus"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Didactic)

Amidst the gloom of night's dark shroud,
lurks Death in far corners of the shade.
To vanquish my fears to God I bowed,
And death shall find me... unafraid.

Amidst this vale of tears and pain,
my...

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Too cold this winter
 of my senior years,
I played my part in this vale of tears
 the onslaught of older age
quickly close the curtain of this stage
 for every escapade and experience
of youth and foolish...

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There is a mist 
on the waters 
    As the ocean laps 
against the shore we 
     realize it is time 
for our journey to begin
  ...

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Souls in fear of uncertain but rampant chaos, 
Where the cities bombed and thousands slayed, 
Houses broken and the valuable coffers emptied, 
Innocents trafficked and the felony at rise, 
Commoners conned and the power misused-...

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I’ve walked the narrow paths of life
Strewn thick with many forms of grief
And yet the pains I could forget
When I traveled not alone.

On and on, for years and years
We wandered in this vale of tears.
We...

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Grief took me by the hand
Lead where I didn't want to go
Straight into the valley of tears
That began to constantly flow

Now that grief had acquainted me
With sorrow in the vale of tears
It seemed at eternal...

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