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Puritanical Poems - Poems about Puritanical

Night Labor, for Rachel Corrie
...Night Labor by Michael R. Burch for Rachel Corrie Tonight we keep the flame alive; we keep the candle lit. We burn bright incense in your name and swear we’ll not forget— your innocence, y......

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Categories: puritanical, children, courage, hate, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jacqueline Trestrail
...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best......

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Categories: puritanical, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Living Dead
...A vast multitude adorn in dregs purloining, Fashionable filth clocked with piety, Showmanship on sacred alters, Multitude of compromised public orators. Fair formalities of professors void of......

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Categories: puritanical, allusion, bereavement, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blessing of the Fleet
...The Madonna looked less than amused as she swayed in time to the steps of the six men who carried her aloft down Hart Street towards the river and the waiting fleet. This was no solemn affair......

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Categories: puritanical, blessing, celebration, religious,
Form: Free verse
Circa Sixty One Years Ago July 6th 2001
...Circa sixty one years ago July 6th, 2001 - birth of dear beloved wife We now get along swimmingly analogous to this bro and his older sis on the cusp of our gifted silver married years if her ......

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Categories: puritanical, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Homage To the Gay Poets
...I was wondering how many renowned gay poets I know— Like Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and Arthur Rimbaud? Edna St. Vincent Millay and Alice Walker, I am told, Both Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein......

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Categories: puritanical, literature, poets, tribute,
Form: Couplet
First Lady of Hotitude
...FIRST LADY OF HOTITUDE You walk into a bar, all eyes lock on you, The fashions which you flaunt reveal quite a view, There’s something special ‘bout the way you move, You carry yourself......

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Categories: puritanical, desire, longing, lust, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
...These are poems about Ann Rutledge and her romantic relationship with Abraham Lincoln. Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge by Michael R. Burch Winter was not easy, nor would the spring return. ......

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Categories: puritanical, history, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain
...Here We Shall Remain by Tawfiq Zayyad loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Like twenty impossibilities in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ... here we shall remain. Like brick walls......

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Categories: puritanical, arabic, poems, poverty, prison,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ohhobbitfeetinbirkenstocks
...OH, Hobbitfeet in Birkenstocks Puritanical piglets oinkfest O'er the Shambridge Shantabridgians Alliedallies reconoitering Panted depth of tofuloitring Agag on ersatzphermony 100%meatlessb......

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Categories: puritanical, nostalgia,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Robert Burns Translation: Comin Thro the Rye
...Comin Thro the Rye by Robert Burns modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Oh, Jenny's all wet, poor body, Jenny's seldom dry; She's draggin' all her petticoats Comin' ......

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Categories: puritanical, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Verse
Who, Us
...who, US? by Michael R. Burch jesus was born a palestinian child where there’s no Room for the meek and the mild ... and in bethlehem still to this day, lambs are born to cries of “no Room......

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Categories: puritanical, abuse, bible, christian, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Cleansings
...Cleansings by Michael R. Burch Walk here among the walking specters. Learn inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave to bone this tightly if their hearts believe that God is good, and never mind......

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Categories: puritanical, holocaust, prison, race, racism,
Form: Verse
Jesus Was Born a Palestinian Child
...who, US? by Michael R. Burch jesus was born a palestinian child where there’s no Room for the meek and the mild ... and in bethlehem still to this day, lambs are born to cries of “......

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Categories: puritanical, jesus,
Form: Verse
First They Came For the Muslims
...First they came for the Muslims after Martin Niemoller First they came for the Muslims and I did not speak out because I was not a Muslim. Then they came for the homosexuals and ......

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Categories: puritanical, culture, discrimination, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

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