Long Warred Poems

Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch

In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch

In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...

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Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more

Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...

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Myths of deductive distinctions,
like white could not come from black,
are disinformed 
when severed from contrasting inductive integrity,
greyscale dualdark co-passions 
within light's future shadows 
of golden opportunity.

RightWing patriarchs oppositionally forget
we are LeftWing matriarchal-appositional reborn
within cooperative health...

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Young Ned was only sixteen years old when
they called for the militia to come again,
having warred with the French for three years now,
and raids had terrified the frontier towns.

But Britain needed men to hold the...

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18-12-1922.                    22-12-2018
A date of birth.           ...

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no (apparent) rhyme nor reason
(satisfactorily) explains academic
     disposition, ideally suited
     (swiftly tailor made,
     and harried styled)
     unflattering venomous wicked...

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A battlefront benefactress,
She has her fortress, a fortified Princess, inside the dungeon of distress,
Tiled with the bone chips of ingratitude colored in pigments of black bright & rugid red,
An arrowhead chandelier illuminated by wicked tears,...

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From the beginning of this life,
Man somehow knows that he is at war.
From childhood games, to stories of the imagination.
We are aware of a conflict, a glorious conflict.
Long ago, a dragon was cast down from...

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It is no fault but to deny now uvailed the eye by expressed Words inspired Divine.
Living breaths vital breeze from emancipated iniquity 
two armies wage war on the small city as One calls on 
prophecy.
Nothing...

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Through the telescope
We view the planet Mars
Explosions aplenty
Leaving planetary scars

Two nights pass
As comets appear
All over the world
Do we panic or fear

The very next morning
Cylinders are found
Metallic and shiny
Making a humming sound

An unscrewing grind
These cylinders emit
As...

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37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love...

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I heard it from the internet,
we’re now living in a new age,
and all twinges of racism
and oppression should go away.
We have to change our sports team names,
we have to tear down the statues,
let’s target the...

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What's wrong in giving birth to a girl?
Love and nurture her she can be a pearl
I can't be quiet towards your disdain for her
Even those boys you seem to prefer
For whose benefits you violated her...

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What is wrong with our ailing society-
We chase after dreams like a proverbial butterfly 
That does not know how to fly straight
Only to be caught in a net as lunch for a spider

Is it only...

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That lifestyle’s bringing you weakness 
It’s the reason you feel defeated 
Use that booze and beak less 
Or the downer is repeated 

Clarity brings peace of mind 
pollution caused by toxic lines 
carrying a release...

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THEY WERE SETTLERS FROM MEXICO, CANADA, ENGLISH COLONIES, SOME WERE DUTCH, SOME WERE FRENCH, SOME WERE ENGLISH, SOME WERE AFRICAN, AND SOME WERE ASAIN. THEY SETTLED IN THE VALLEY "WERE DROUGHT WAS KIND." THEY BOUGHT...

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I've seen the silent night hurled at me again,
my feelings mouthless,  a cut deeper than fresh 
wound cupped a strange fantasy of expression inside - 
Another  gory fear danced to itself in my...

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I know I'm outnumbered
I know I'm not wrong 
it's lightning before thunder 
lies go speeding on 
the truth will take longer
when lies live strong 

I felt a pain I couldn't explain 
I could to begin...

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The Peaceful Shepherd
---  by Robert Frost

If heaven were to do again,
And on the pasture bars,
I leaned to line the figures in
Between the dotted stars,

I should be tempted to forget,
I fear, the Crown of Rule,
The...

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It seemed so long ago, my star was born
Pure white brilliance, blinding and warm
A beauty unrivaled by queens and kings
Even more fair than Saturn's rings

Pulled into orbit against my will
I was shaken and given more...

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I don't know me or the world anymore,
I'm sure I'm unsure as I search for a cure.

I look for a reason to fight,
I've lost my bark,
I've lost my bite,
I can't see the dark,
I can't see...

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Me


Some men bring millions to the Lord's name
by telling them lies like
you go to heaven when you die
and others tell the truth
in the midst of their adversaries angry eyes
they say, judgment day beckons
and no one...

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little boy blue
out stirring the coop
out in the woods
allergic to something
this one thing
little red never knew
chicken soup
tell me shes just sick
get me the hunter
little boy blue
the cheaptrick to outsmart the wolf
the wolf is just another...

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"A Terrorist Act  On Friday the 13th"
(a true story! and no one to tell!)

2 pm Friday the 13th 
a red demon was parked at 
the "Castle of State Farm" by a bus stop
the bald...

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The Good Book tells us that God rested on The Seventh Day,
To unwind upon His Throne and His handiwork survey.
He foresaw the mess we mere mortals would make of things,
Abetted by all humankind to include...

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