Long Zion Poems

Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.

Shock
by Michael R. Burch

It was early in the morning of...

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For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch

For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...

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~  No  Matter  What  ~
( Trinet )



~O~


Embrace Life
No matter
What start with heart full of
Love Faith  Hope never let anything
Steal your 
Dreams  tomorrow
New day

~0~

The best
For you 
May still come embrace...

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The laws are not in the management of the soul, but the greatest science fruits are punished with the sounds of the rails that follow the trains of the cows living without breaking the suffering...

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Nowhere Else To Go

Welcome to Israel: Land of Hope.1
(The land of Zion and Jerusalem.)2
Where prophets walked and prophesied,
For their God, our God:
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.3

And the Lord spoke to Abram, and he...

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Sonnets XC-XCVII

Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch

I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.

Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...

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????John 10:14-15 NIV??
[14]  “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life...

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All things that scrub the ground like an old musty couch I saw you there seated with my very abusive ex husband wearing my under garments wrapped around your head I wondered just what you...

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The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...

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~ He's  With   You  ~
 (Trinet)



~O~


  Today   and
 Everyday  want
 To wish you  a  great   day
 With lots of Love and  Blessings
...

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~ No Matter What ~
( Trinet )



Embrace life
No matter
What start with heart full of
Love Faith  Hope never let anything
Steal your 
Dreams tomorrow
New day

~0~

The best
For you 
May still come embrace life no
Matter what and always...

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			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and we’re now, in these last days, living on the cusp

But...

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Bitter Wind 

With the winds beginning in the autumn season, the Soul seems to be a leaf falling towards new pain. 
In the heat of the fire flying with the wind, it inhales us with...

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Venite
Come let us sing to the Lord;*
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving*
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
For the Lord is...

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~No Matter What ~
 ( Trinet )




 Embrace life
 No matter
 What start with heart full of
 Love Faith Hope never let anything
 Steal your 
 Dreams tomorrow
 New day

~0~

 The best
 For you 
...

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They say I write magic 
like I was granted a wish from the genie in Aladdin
An stole Kazaam boom box an secret patent Latin verses from canibus
While using cannibus as incense listening to BOB Marley...

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How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces, has now become a slave.
Bitterly she weeps...

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Sinai Campaign, 1967

“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3

Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...

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~ May   Come ~
 (Trinet)



 Today   and
 Everyday  I
 Want to wish you great   day
 With lots of love and blessings
 And    all
 That ...

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~No Matter What ~
 ( Trinet )


 Embrace life
 No matter
 What start with heart full of
 Love  Faith  Hope never let anything
 Steal your 
 Dreams tomorrow
 New day


 The best
 For...

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~ May   Come ~
 ( Trinet  )



 Today 
 I  want 
 To wish you a great day
 With lots of love  and  blessings
 And all
 That you
 Deserve

...

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~ May   Come ~
 ( Trinet  )



 Today 
 I  want 
 To wish you a great day
 With lots of love  and  blessings
 And all
 That you
 Deserve

...

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My beautiful friend
Hey. You daughter of beautiful Zion
Brighter than the city of Jerusalem
Yet I find no pleasure i you
O daughter of Jerusalem
Beautiful than the summer stars

Through the tender nights ahead
Illuminated with candles of life and...

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Sun is shining as I sing my redemption song.
Hey lady, no woman no cry, lets spread one love.
Jammin', spreading positive vibrations so strong,
like three little birds easy skanking with a dove.

Hey lady, no woman no...

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What majestic power God 
Has prepared unto those which seek
Once we were all far away 
Separated from sin in death
The fire appeared to give commandments.
Telling to tie them around ones hands 
Place them on the...

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