Long Xix Poems

Simon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey

For gold and silver adulterate still,
Now it's time that the trumpet sounds...

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Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...

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I    V    I      
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                      I
 Remember when days were long
   and all de children do...

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EARLY POEMS XIX

Bound
by Michael R. Burch

Now it is winter—the coldest night.
And as the light of the streetlamp casts strange shadows to the ground,
I have lost what I once found
in your arms.

Now it is winter—the coldest...

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Rules: Use at least 10 candy names from those listed below.
(30 candy names used)


Tomorrow we'll explore our Galaxy,
not just by space ship, but with 'space nerds' too!
We smarties, gifted Mike and Ike, with me,
will start...

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(alternately titled one me silly more till manufactured 
from go win addle American 
non refundable private parts) 

each set of twenty three chromosomes 
the basic biological building blocks
of life came out cervix 
when second hand...

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Unquotable quotes: Nurses – XIX

A nurse well-dressed is a nurse well-thought of, even if she administers the coup de grace.
Prick a nurse and she’ll pamper you; pamper a nurse and she’ll prick you.
Displease a nurse...

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We were just moving in
And our neighbors down the hall
Decided to act neighborly
And invite us over for a visit
We were due for a break

Their apartment was cluttered
In an interesting museum-like way
Obviously the result of downsizing

They...

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Being a God-blessed Coffee tree
I have a privilege status in my country
Aside from being functionally free
I’m sought-out as Christmas fixture for December glee.

This year, I’m a decorated Christmas tree in an Orphanage-home
And I’ve witnessed the...

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The Heroes emerge within the storm, unforeseen not the norm,
Generals gather in their swarm, the pestilence prevails to preform…
One by one they will be seen, making miracles as they closely clean,
All is fragile like a...

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XIX: Carefully preserved...

Carefully preserved it will always be
Always in the past, no future I can see
But will always remain special to the same degree
At least some in life value me for me

Today is a good...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between...

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IF ever I had a country : XXIX - XXX

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12...

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Abandoned realities that the Kings have sought,
Biological bacillus organisms left to rapidly rot…
Absorbefacient annihilation the pawns have brought,
The bacterium Bishops are pernicious in their plot…

Ambient affliction plagues the progressive parasites,
Of the nuclear noxious nomads reaching...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

(The pantun line varies between 8 and...

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As fate hangs 
in a precarious equilibrium
and a mammoth iceberg 
of uncertainty crumbles 
into the sea

As quiet moments start to rattle 
like angry thunder and the 
maddening world plunges 
head-first into a bottomless pit 
of...

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IF ever I had a country : XIX - XX

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The tired soul,
that exerts energy like wildfire,
preempting dark truths of this world,
God questioned of His fairness

The one that lives in assured hope,
Who sees the world's beauty 
Beyond its messy evils—
She sings the Father's dreams!

And the...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XIX

IF you pull a long plucky face
Even when I-Ee-You let you have your way
Placed no impediment for the divorce
Let you keep key to backstop exit doorway

You yet...

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I sought all I could with you.
Seeking freedom in my fear,
I found more dread in my bed without love.
I thirst for countless reasons and answers
that could be my way to free my cold feet.
Forgetting my...

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Art, Articulation, Amazement
Blessings, Benefits, Brilliance
Creativity, Captivation, Creation
Dreams, Delight, Dedication
Excitement, Enjoyment, Encouragement
Fulfillment, Freedom, Favorites
Gratification, Giving, Glorious
Heartfelt, Heavenly, Hallelujah 
Imagination, Inspiration, Insight
Jubilation, Joy, Judicious
Knowing, Known, Knowledge
Loveable, Laughter, Lasting
Miraculous, Musical, Mysterious
Neverland, Nice, Needed
Open, Opulent, Occurrence
Pure, Perfect, Precious
Quiet, Quaint,...

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A stony gut mi come from
Long march through the bruising night
Vex in mi soul without rum
Me in dis Morant Bay bright
Deh yah since broad day mek it lights
To seh me is man fe mi rights

A...

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