I AM
...Jah
God above all gods
Name, itself, baes the staff and rod
As all creation revers His name
Deeming the name holy and perfect without stain!
Emblematic Name extends comfort and security
Grantin...
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Categories:
merited, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Crime busting Houston police smoke out disjointed fur rats house
...Crime busting Houston police smoke out disjointed fur rats house...
formerly an abandoned Amazon warehouse went to pot
with mold and magic mushrooms growing in every spot.
All kinds of vermin ...
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Categories:
merited, africa, america, animal, food,
Form: Free verse
UnSung IrReligious DisAuguration
...How does it feel to you
when presidents proclaim anthro-supremacy
exclusively made
in one universal God's
straight WesternWhite monotheistic
over-Capitalized
autocratic entitlement
for a mon...
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Categories:
merited, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Sappho Translations III
...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch
Bed the bride with the beautiful feet,
or bring her to me!
—Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch
I long helplessly for love. Ga...
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Categories:
merited, beautiful, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Free verse
Life After Losing A Spouse
...gods-book.com
When we marry, we enter a covenant, till death do us part,
Each made this covenant, expressed from their heart.
Two people join in a union of love for better or worse,
And vow t...
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Categories:
merited, age, bereavement, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Virgil Translation: Descent into the Underworld
...Aeneid Book 6: The Descent into the Underworld
by Virgil
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The Sibyl began to speak to Aeneas:
“God-blooded Trojan, son of Anchises,
descen...
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Categories:
merited, death, god, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
To The Dad I Once Knew
...* Note My dad passed away today, a little over seven months since my mom passed. After a thirty year estrangement my dad and I reconciled when mom died. I figured I'd write this today, while everythi...
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Categories:
merited, 1st grade, death, father,
Form: Elegy
Filling Up Spaces With Words
...Does anyone have the conception
that I'm disconnected from reality,
so fearful to face more hardships?
All I do is filling up spaces with words,
they fit perfectly to make me feel easy:
it's aw...
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Categories:
merited, allusion, bullying, change, culture,
Form: Lyric
ROYALITY RULES I so DESIRE the PURPLE HEART of the LORD OUR GOD-
...Purple hearts made of metals, and gems;
They don't mean a thing;
You see, beyond the reality seas;
Rivers boats filled with dreams and fruits;
For the only hearts that have merited wo...
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Categories:
merited, analogy, appreciation, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Weeping willow
...
Written: February 3rd, 2024
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Existence for him,
should be the shivering,
a fantastic cymbal beat,
beaten with a firm stick,
then...
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Categories:
merited, analogy, appreciation, cry, life,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poets X
...Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X
Sinking
by Michael R. Burch
for Virginia Woolf
Weigh me down with stones ...
fill all the pockets of my gown ...
I’m going down,
...
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Categories:
merited, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Mystery of May
...I was an unfathomable mystery writer, producing novels for ardent readers,
Much like a mystery of vanishing pearly moon, as sun comes up to greet her.
My days were spent devising fresh plots, lik...
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Categories:
merited, fantasy, imagery, may, missing,
Form: Couplet
Deep Love a Freed Verse
...DEEP LOVE
alongside
reputation
shattered
in meticulous
focus
a hazard
embroidered
consciously
inspiration
endless
encroaching
on the wanderlust
catalysing
the passionate
it m...
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Categories:
merited, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Carver
...The Trial.
Arthur, Sammy, Davis, Junior, Stevie Wonder, Bob, Mick, Sue, Carver. You are being charged with the partial demolition of a listed building. Endangering the life of one, Mavis Step...
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Categories:
merited, adventure, humorous, prison,
Form: Free verse
Secrets
...SECRETS!
on and see greats.
Don't be grateful
until you light
Your cigarette of secrets.
Mourn me till I come to live till eternity.
Treasure your certainty
To be content in your quantity an...
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Categories:
merited, angel, confidence, courage, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
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