Long Worming Poems

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...



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These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...



The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch

“Dust to dust ...”

I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...

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Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the mighty Dogs will surely cope with that.
I couldn’t think of...

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No One
by Michael R. Burch

No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...

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Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get
rocketing toward my sixty fifth birthday
January thirteenth...

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Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get.

A garden variety (generic) agrarian wannabe
antiauthoritarian, bookish...

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Curse you, curse you forgiving and patient heart
you would receive a thousand papercuts 
before admitting a person's fault
I don't know why
Why are you so dead-set on letting me embrace, witness
the brutally honest elegantness dwelling inside...her,...

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Just come along with me to the town 
where long time ago I bicycled, 
walked and ran about whenever
I wanted to smell the fragrance of Saigon

where I raised my hand  to salute the 
spirits...

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these fingers want to click
out the words that accurately emphasize
the magnitude of the sudden
suffering i feel
a deep melancholy
that sprang at me
out of the dark 
beyond my velveteen bed
but these fingers can't seem
to do this feeling...

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Everybody in the building knew
what happened the other day
Everybody in your home office knew too,
your carefully crafted cover was blown
Big news media explosion made it get blown away,
no one now believes a word you say
Years...

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NOT AGAIN THOMAS

On Thomas meowing at the front door this morning, on opened the door instead of coming in, he ran across the front garden and lay down next to the front garden wall and...

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Bot for the sake of liberty sanctum sanctity,
none would ever have perceived
	the nano ... nano ... nano 
repeated viral injected lies 
worming thru infected web monitor screens
Computers aren’t partial to receive only analog truth,
Cyber Greek...

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Get Out of My Face!

What brought all of that on?
Award?  This is not a movie!
Who cares about a stupid award?
And how dare you judge me like that?
You must have lost your brains –
Yes, I...

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WE THE WOEFULLY WEAK

We the woefully weak
learn how to walk feather lightly so the floorboards don't squeak
while the moon has clouds to hide behind
we will rob you brashly and blind

while the lights in your house...

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THE WOEFULLY WEAK

We the woefully weak
learn how to walk feather lightly so the floorboards don't squeak
while the moon has clouds to hide behind
we will rob you brashly and blind

while the lights in your house are...

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The Restaurant Menu has a picture.
Three golden brown Pancakes 
A large corn colored slice of butter
Melting on top running over the sides.
Griddle Cakes doing a Nathalie Wood impersonation
Drowning in a sea of thick maple syrup
Cartoon...

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Spawned from cosmic dust,
Our eyes buried underground,
Lungs yearning for oxygen to combust,
The steel in our spine kept under the weight of the Earth pound by pound,
With the grit under our nails the permanent bond to...

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Hey you old cat...
like I can't see you or something !
down there worming …
 around my feet and legs
lovin' up on me !

We're still here...today
you and me.
Just like the days and years before.
Sure I'm lookin'...

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Carbon human lives address, express ideas? debate caress'
All mammals made of carbon too'  walk and live some are; confined to zoo's, a manmade place to observe
And gather; revenue in that preserve' yet now a...

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On the Verge 

Every hand is pocket bound,
eyes lifted from the TV’s hallowed glow.
Breath is released in a low sigh; 
worming, squirming, squat.

Thrust out of bounds in tandem,
nothing is done alone.
You’re seen, you’re sought, you’re...

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Alzheimer’s is the devil incarnate secretly waiting in the wings to violate
Lovely people who are unaware this evil disease is in hiding somewhere
Zigzagging silently through their brain ~ never to be the same again
Hell on...

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An arthritic flesh

Hesitant wipes off deteriorated lens

Every exhale,
Another tragic sulk unto morrow’s pit
Flaunting suicidal fallacies

Off-white flag motions
Signaling mercy under liar’s duress

Muted pride
Cracking dusty knuckles

Penetration’s decrepit vowel
Slipping in between faulty, stamped licenses
Just to belong

Another back-handed waltz
Bordering...

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If you question
      Straight thyself,
Commanding pride of trust
      Prefer to maintain love,
Resort monotheism
      Make the land paradise
Would receive ne'er
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“Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here”
Floating freely amidst the thoughts in my dreaming heart.
Burning futilely, its fiery passion into my soul.
Days spent dreaming go forth unfulfilled.
A soul unbound, without love’s embrace, witherth.
Merciful God...

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If my golden little cat could smile and talk
Like we humans often do,
He would boldly say to me;
Please guide me near the sea
Where I could find some fishermen observing
The rapid movement of the tidal waves,
Upon...

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