Long Vigil Poems

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MY HUSBAND 101 AIRBOURNE SCREAMING EAGLES MY HERO AND I EMBRACE STOLEN VALOR UPON US

WE CATER TO ONE ANOTHER MORE DURING THESE HARSH TIMES OF EMOTIONAL CRUELTY ACTUALLY TWO WHOLE YEARS WHEN IT STARTED AGAIN STALKERS THREATENING MY LIFE AFTER A FAILED ASSASINATION ATTEMPT ON MY LIFE SEVERE IDENTITY...

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Categories: vigil, allah,
Form: Naat


The Messenger

"The Messenger"

Love is rich with 
venom and honey. 

there was a female ...

snake, 
it watched 
with green-eyed 
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest

the dove, 
was white as snow, 
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey

the dove 
alone,...

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Categories: vigil, dark, journey, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Peace Prayer

These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...

Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

for Jim Dunlap

Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.

Be one with the...

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Categories: vigil, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form: Free verse
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Federal Probe alerts all aboard greatlakes navy base

The probe alerts for federal 
employees identification machines
data including finger printing 
system use for fraudulent 
access to aviation government 
buildings documents and data 
to allow domestic terrorists access
identication machines still not 
located be vigil when...

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Categories: vigil, allah,
Form: Naat

Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Categories: vigil, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse


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NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS DATA HACKERS ENTRAPMENT CANCELLED

THIS DATA BREACH ALLOWED HACKERS TO STEAL PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDDING TO THIS I HAVE SEVERAL COMPANIES CEO FOR CRHIST SAKE ON DISABILITY IN HIDING FROM TWO ABUSIVE SPOUSE HOWEVER THIS CRUELTY HAS GATHERED FALSE INFORMATION...

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Categories: vigil, allah,
Form: Naat
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By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day

     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

                 first comes...

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Categories: vigil, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse

The Girl With Eyes As Black As Crows

On that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only to put out the low burning lamp
When there I saw...

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Categories: vigil, dark, death, fantasy, murder, mythology, night, scary,
Form: Narrative
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A Poem of Ruth

The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...

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Categories: vigil, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Rabindranath Tagore Translations Ii

Patience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...

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Categories: vigil, dark, heart, night, silence, spoken word, stars,
Form: Free verse
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Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In Paris

DIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths

March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris

The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...

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Categories: vigil, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will

“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” 
– General George Pickett

Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...

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Categories: vigil, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form: Ballad
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Pulse of the Poet's Abyss

In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
    not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
    I ruminate—
        no longer a singular entity but...

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Categories: vigil, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination, muse, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets

#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds  of the day"

Virtues are...

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Categories: vigil, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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The True Knight -POTD

POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times. 

She’s a queen who sees her lover...

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Categories: vigil, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism

Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy Translation

This is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912. 

Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Every angel...

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Categories: vigil, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form: Elegy

Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share 
how one and only...

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Categories: vigil, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form: Free verse
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The Pending Doom

I aped to a blue heron to a man who wrote his deed.
Once you're at the final of the story, no woe is needed.

If death appeared to be appropriate, life would be aimless.
If you have...

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Categories: vigil, anger, appreciation, confidence, death, feelings, giving, god,
Form: Couplet

Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004

Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz twenty years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...

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Categories: vigil, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny, journey, mother son,
Form: Free verse

African Dream

It must have been the darkest, deepest fate time create,
People saw and forgot the impact when history intervened. 
We forgive and endure, but our minds will not forget
The Bizarre world trying to suppress our African...

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Categories: vigil, africa, allusion, character, dream, future, history, people,
Form: Ballad
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Part 2 - Earthbound Angels Made of Stone - An Epic

Those evil thorns of bitterness
That couldn't bear to see
This child so loved and so adored
By their father
Captain Lee

Until one day in early May
When she went out to play
In  fields drenched in morning  dew
Above...

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Categories: vigil, abuse, angel, baby, black african american, death,
Form: Epic
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Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxii Part Two

Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, Sereno and the Hausgast –XXXii Part Two

The duties of the Housekeeper in the U.K. par rapport au Portero in Spain or the Gardienne in France is that...

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Categories: vigil, dedication, destiny, devotion, good night, loneliness, prison,
Form: Sonnet

The Twelve Months of the Year

January: is mountain of blessing where the births sing with hope for those 
Semen mentioned on this occasion to Ottoman Empire where conqueror doesn't 
Need dozens of sword to shout. He only understands the cap...

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Categories: vigil, success, symbolism, wisdom, , Lullaby,
Form: ABC
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On Hearing That Ronnie

for Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood 
                               ...

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Categories: vigil, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form: Elegy

Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004

Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...

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Categories: vigil, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Free verse
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