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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
welfare, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
welfare, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
welfare, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
welfare, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
welfare, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language Enculturation
long become YangDominant associated
with 'civilization',
co-arising anthro-centrism,
including Earth's newer history
of revolution by Empirical Elitism.
Processes of empirical empire supremacy,
kill or be killed,
became not really...
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Categories:
welfare, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
welfare, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
welfare, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
TeatalkDo you share my concern that your happiness and healthy life are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive energy for life,
despite the odds of...
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Categories:
welfare, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
welfare, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Wise EldersWise Elders are patient,
fully embrace non-violent communication
and health care
of climates and landscapes,
persons,
places,
things,
plants
and planet,
hopes
and dreams
rebuilding positive faith.
Wise Elders non-violently listen
for karmic grace of love
sometimes overflowing.
If Wise Revolutionaries for change,
clearing murky swamps,
then Wise Elder non-violent evolutionaries
toward peace
restoring...
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Categories:
welfare, 5th grade, caregiving, class, health, time, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Put Your Thoughts In Rhyme - Both Audio and Text VersionsI'm very lucky...writing poetry soothes my soul -
Rhonda was the only child of Ron and Debby Baker.
Debby was a widow. It was 1952…
And having been away from ‘41 to ‘43 -
fighting on the...
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Categories:
welfare, father daughter, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
welfare, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
Liberal Operatic LoversWhat cooperative evidence
could we final climate find
for WinWin cooperation lovers
including LeftBrain secular humanities
inviting no more or less valueflow
than RightBrain WiseElder root-branch dipolar etchings
neurologically ancient bipolar temporal systemic
body-branch, mind-root DNA enscriptured holonic trees,
DNA river...
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Categories:
welfare, environment, happiness, health, heart, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Jesus Told MeJesus taught and lived
Those who follow the Way
Truth
Life, rather than punishing death,
would be known
by our love,
especially for our enemies.
He did not say, or live,
Those who punish themselves and others with death threats
and war planning
and technology...
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Categories:
welfare, community, culture, health, history, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Once Pawn a TimeOnce pawn a time...
About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.
While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...
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Categories:
welfare, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Once a Pawn a Time Within Castellated BishopricOnce a pawn a time within castellated bishopric
We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand twenty three
witnessed greatest amount of money
I spent at one time.
The following day...
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Categories:
welfare, appreciation, april, bible, black love, dark, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Kellyanne's Fake Constitutional Rock"The Second Amendment is a bedrock principle of our Constitution..."
...
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Categories:
welfare, anger, history, humor, integrity, language, leadership, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Notes From a Unitarian ChildOnce upon a time,
an eight year old
Black and Green and Brown and Red and Blue Lives Matter
ultra-nonviolent kid
wrote an ultra-violet note to him/herself
about stuff s/he needed to full-rainbow recall
if and when s/he ever became
a worn...
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Categories:
welfare, age, childhood, culture, earth, health, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
H Stands For Human ResourcesThe Scarlet Letter H
Two Windows The Bridge ...
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Categories:
welfare, philosophy,
Form:
Shape
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years AgoExcerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago...
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater),
and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream
upcoming performance.
Arch...
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Categories:
welfare, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
By George Burning Hard, I Shaw Tried To PlaywrightBy George (burning hard), I Shaw tried to playwright
offers his unsolicited tidbits
as scene courtesy
the following virtually
staged philosophical insight.
Arch back like
a professional ballet dancer
to stand out from other pedestrian applicants
seeking...
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Categories:
welfare, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character,
Form:
Free verse
Haunted By WonderI have become haunted by therapeutic wonder,
within wonder,
surrounded by Wonder,
made of Wonder
these past few days
and traumatically troubling nights.
I have also become terrorized by vindication,
vindictive Win/Lose threatening relationships
learned from retributive justice philosophers
who are also parents
and teachers,
so...
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Categories:
welfare, earth, education, health, integrity, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Bounteous Mass Media MechanizationsBounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses
linkedin selling (hard) wares
versus advertising males sporting, harkening,
approximating Adonis with remarkable beauty.
Western civilization commercialization,
commodification, communication
methodologies adrip with deification,...
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Categories:
welfare, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
A Forgotten AngelA FORGOTTEN ANGEL
Who was she? They wondered
No one knew her name
Where did she live? They wondered
No one ever saw her playing
How old was she? They wondered
Did she have any friends?
What happened? ...
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Categories:
welfare, angel, anger, betrayal, child abuse, courage, grave,
Form:
Free verse