Long Visioned Poems

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'WHY DO TURTLES CROSS THE ROAD? '


OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here and remember too to give your reasons for your choice....

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When potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living 
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,

Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
synagogues,
mosques,
green post-millennial sanctuaries,
Gaian ecofeminist fire-circles
gathered their members and neighboring allies,
republican nationalists,
green democrats,
ecosystemic libertarian zeroists,

To discuss and discern
which potential Presidential
and Vice-Presidential candidates...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V

Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise
by Michael R. Burch

I wanted to be good as gold,
but being good, as I’ve been told,
requires something, discipline,
I simply have no interest in!



Villanelle of...

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I heard someone say never make the same mistake twice
They were referring to love
So I started to relate, my mind started to penetrate
The reasons why the heart had grown cold
Like a movie, the plot started...

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An Apology to the people loved & lost (dedication)
just for closure.

I had a vision and I grabbed it
Sought after a long verge to succeed and I dreamt of it
Unaware of what I had become
Pained-heart-blood-stained tears...

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“THE POEM MY MOTHER LIKED”


smoking a cigarette in the bathroom 
at 4 p.m. I wonder what my son is doing; 
I wonder if court will run smooth. I sit in 
the midst of my greatest...

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True Love isn't what you had me thinking it would be
In love isn't always forever
Our home is gone
Theres Fear now 
You used to love me
You never complained
You even bragged about
How I'm perfect
You told me everyday....
I...

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Every reason equates to both the truth or curtains. 
Within the visible light of mind, unveil the blurriness or shade it for certain. 
Emotions are as true as the hands that caress it. 
The speech...

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Past the Darling plateau, down yonder
Through the docile jarrah trees
Where the wildest flowers wander
To and fro adorns the breeze
And the quietest fields of daisies mourn
The bodies of those once scorned
Safe away on endless tether
Awaits the...

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As I lay in  meadows green  outstreched on the grass
 Ignorance comes blinding as the fleeting day goes past. Blissfull blindness leaves  ignorance to the fading light. 
Approach the dark let all of day demise...

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I rose with purpose in my stride,
A banner bold across my chest.
With every word, I spoke with pride,
And gave the race my very best.

I shaped my dreams in visioned flame,
Each meeting held, each hand I...

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Sitting alone in the dark room, so much potential with no opportunity to bloom
Love and happiness is what I've been seeking, time and time again I realize too late my emergency light has been blinking
She's...

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As I kneel to the prominence of a higher understanding with one eye shut tight, a becoming 
takes place in existence.
I am the one who has seen the smile of the decietful and have heard...

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Twickenham's green mead is dank and gray
The sun behind the clouds has gone away
In the drying woods a solitary soul, O alone,
So alone, translate grief to incessant moan.
Nature shows its one with us, in all...

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Pride comes before the fall 
under a tender gaze of midday's sun 
Our Sunday cross 
is being turned upside down 
incorrectly sponsored by none other than the arts council 
as it carries their logo seal...

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Within the mind we are confined;
the body shuts us in.
And sadly sometimes humankind
throughout its thick and thin

has suffered serious disease 
that tests our mortal grip
on evolution’s risky seas
to keep afloat our ship.

These illnesses that sweep...

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A few pages of unanchored memories, 
                             ...

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LIES

A web that has no ending
For I can not stop 
Even though I try
Something is wrong with me
Because my judgement is blinded
And I can not see
Every time I make the promise
To quench the desire to...

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Three million years ago.
Three toed, and foraging the swamp lands. No bigger than a house cat. Timid.
Horse found safety in numbers. Prey mammal. Happy horse. 

Two million years ago.
Mother Earth began to dry, and the...

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I crossed the road in front of a red 1947 Oldsmobile. Horns 
honking throughout the city. She sounded young and free on the 
phone when she called last night. Not meaning to clip the wing...

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A vast ,babbling vast of green lush grass, 
 spread out on rocky mountains. 
Rays of sun light ,awaking slumbering buds, from a sleeping beauty.
Winds of tranquility shifting the images of the spring sky.
Ob-east Caterpillars...

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                        yes
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Have you ever died?
Have you ever lied, in a bloody bed of your lies?
Could you ever fly?
Did you really ever try?

In front of me,
I'm tunnel visioned filled with stars
Feeling the rush of speeding cars
All my...

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Since I was a boy I have known of her . I've dreamed of her in my fantasies , I have visioned you in my thoughts.Never knowing why or how or 

where she came from,...

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It was a dry December month
    There was no rain, there was no snow
And so his hopes were wearing thin
            ...

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