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Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
vaulted, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
vaulted, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
vaulted, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iii
Poems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
vaulted, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
vaulted, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
vaulted, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
(route 76) both heading into
(and a small number of hours later
exiting) center city Philadelphia
to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024.
Yours truly (a doodling Yankee), and the missus
went to town, NOT...
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Categories:
vaulted, adventure, america, angel, anger, anxiety, atheist, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
An Introduction: An Introduction
Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that stamp,
Or tramp, or whatever other denomination one might reliably take...
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Categories:
vaulted, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22
POETIC 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:
vaulted, appreciation, april, care, earth day, future, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
My Town
From north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...
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Categories:
vaulted, city, history, home, me, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Murdering Pluto
"Murdering Pluto"
On Pluto,
they deal with trauma
in the best possible way,
they murder it slowly
in poetic hell
day after day.
the dark Seraphim
have their way.
their ways are stellar.
some say they hover
in the stratosphere,
but that's...
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Categories:
vaulted, dark, muse, mystery, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Birthing the Vortex
"Birthing the Vortex"
the complexities of a myth
borne from the birth
of amorphous seat
in dark matter brain
storming dimensions never seen
merely guessed, intuitive, unblessed
visage of a lost majesty
she’s returning to true self
all wrapped up in...
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Categories:
vaulted, desire, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Stained Glass Scarlet
Stained Glass Scarlet, Scarlet Fasinera . . . a fictional character
a vigilante haunting the streets of the Bronx
...
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Categories:
vaulted, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Penny Dreadful
"Penny Dreadful"
Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful
Do you remember when?
That time long before Formaldehyde kicked in?
When the Transformer grew your freedom wings, blew your neurons in?
That time when your story kissed her Blue Violet bleeding grin?
A wet ripe...
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Categories:
vaulted, black love, dark, fantasy, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
From Palimpsest to Glory: The Music of Florence Price
In Ouachita's tales, where pine needles sigh.
I trace the mountains' ancient, weathered crown.
Silvered river forgotten secrets float by
And fills my heart, a sonorous chamber now.
A flame ignites, dispelling shadows deep,
A beacon for lost souls on...
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Categories:
vaulted, black african american, courage, discrimination, music, racism,
Form:
Narrative
72 Realms of Dopple Gangers
Then again, was a realm in tandem with another realm. There's no way to judge the distance as each one has a value of its own. Surrendering to the infinite vortex 'cause there's no captain...
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Categories:
vaulted, art, poetry,
Form:
Alliteration
Earth Day 2020 Wednesday, April 22
Earth 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:
vaulted, 12th grade, care, caregiving, environment, health, memorial
Form:
Free verse
Best Sports Poems Ii
These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden...
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Categories:
vaulted, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
About a Girl
The problem is her lips.
They don't form smiles any more than waves decide of their own accord
to lift themselves up off of the ocean's surface.
And if lips are meant to be drowsy shutters
then hers...
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Categories:
vaulted, love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Now and Then In Fair Fallhill
Slowly, my ferryboat drifted closer to my dear old home. Before me, the stony peaks of familiar mountains arose from the blue hue, and just as cool salty breezes blew across my face, the childhood...
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Categories:
vaulted, art, beauty, child, emotions, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Value of a Last Chance
" Value of A Last Chance ... "
(or Value of A Last Choice)
( Matt. 16: 26, 27 / Matt. 6: 12, 19-21, 24 / Prov. 3: 5, 6
1 Pet. 1: 7 / Rom. 12: 19...
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Categories:
vaulted, future, life, spiritual,
Form:
Light Verse
Lost Love Deliria - Part 2
Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...
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Categories:
vaulted, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Jew #14
Like cheap market cloth in dirt-stained cheap hands
Love's been abused, narrowly defined, broken
Like a cistern into selfish small strands
Until its only a silly token
Of our greed. But I see God image still
In you, a high...
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Categories:
vaulted, faith, love, philosophygod, me, sweet, god, image,
Form:
Sonnet
Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens
"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"
I walk beside you
in your dreams,
you are always in me
warm and pounding,
twin heart,
burning bright flame,
beautiful addiction
captive deep blue je reviens
Sun igniting,
I stand with you, invisible...
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Categories:
vaulted, desire, longing, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
It Was the Word After All
Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light
Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment
Scattered in his loony resemblance of a rational mind words rearranged reason
Analyses...
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Categories:
vaulted, books,
Form:
Free verse