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A Story Sketched by Stars

...The stars of heaven a story tell,
as on the canvas of the sky
with pictures, bold and intricate,
each night they speak without a word.

Ancient stargazers sketched the signs
that God arranged a...

New Year's Eve 2022

...New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding ...

Upon Exiting the Womb

...Upon exiting the womb...

23,190 days ago,

Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-num...

The Sin of Sloth

...
'Twas not the sin of sloth the Visigoth
rained down on Rome: the bitter taste of Gaul.
By moral indolence, His passions wroth.
Care lacked, and inward rot presaged their fall.


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Those Who

...Those Who...


                  Those who are presaged to selflessly save innocent life

                   Are impervious against inequity and of inhumane strife


                   Those ...

New Year's Eve 2021

...New Year's Eve 2021

December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
wh...

Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation

...This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriati...

Memorial Service 10:00 Am October 21st 2020

...Memorial service ~10:00 A.M. October 21st, 2020...
at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Unitarian Fellowship

Boyce Brandon Harris cremains
(approximately one fourth entire contents)
offered, interred, an...

Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther

...The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is ...

Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation

...Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk...

Rilke Translations Ii

...Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1...

A Gaelic Song

...^
			A Gealic Song

Gneiss. 
	Ancient.
Vying with Earth herself for the Crown of Age.

In the Hebrides
Lie the Stones of Calanais
Stubborn chthonic deities of a common past
Rising up and st...

Spectacular Resounding Meteorological Phenomena

...Brilliant light and sound show
not disappointing forecasters promised
outstandingly uproarious performance
powerful winds rage
against the machine
embark to score prestigious

chart chopping h...

Battle Axe and Her Republican Trumpeting Waze - Part 2

...No sooner than we set foot within said domicile
attestation to so called gentleman’s’ agreement with guile
initially infrequently, but incessantly as time elapsed Isle 
never forget (nor will spou...

New Snow

...It happened quickly, not three full days
after the last sturdy leaf of the
flowering linden tree surrendered to
late fall winds.

Snowfall, lots of it. Over a foot
the first time. Shoveling, di...

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