In a World Where I Do Not Exist
...Does my butterfly wing flap
matter to matter?
Does my life extend
beyond my fleeting, feeble steps
in the dirt?
Even the genes I pass on to my progeny,
though uniquely mine,
are unchanged by m...
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Categories:
recombinant, earth, life, my children,
Form: Free verse
for Darren - repost
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* I wrote this in my second year here for ‘Darren White’, for he impressed me in so many ways, but mostly as a friend. I lost touch with him over the last couple of years and just learned of his pa...
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Categories:
recombinant, analogy, friendship, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poems about Science 5: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION
Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I...
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Categories:
recombinant, child, children, earth, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bigger Better Bigger
...More is so much more
More than creation could have to offer
The better we can do
If we meddle and then we tamper
Make it better it will be BIGGER
THERE beneath the muscle mass
The egg yolk re...
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Categories:
recombinant, crazy, nature, technology,
Form: Free verse
Bonedeep Lonely
...Imprisoning textures
and routine lectures
in loneliness,
"your own fault"
"not Other's loss"
blame
shame
dipolar co-arising
Loneliness effacing
cognitive/affective reason
and denying ...
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Categories:
recombinant, green, health, loneliness, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Free Verse I
...Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held...
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Categories:
recombinant, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Longing
...Longing
by Michael R. Burch
We stare out at the cold gray sea,
overcome
with such sudden and intense longing . . .
our eyes meet,
inviolate,
and we are not of this earth,
this strange, i...
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Categories:
recombinant, desire, life, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Where I Love
...In this body
in which I healthy live
And, in this economic class
in which I study comparative social investments,
some more belligerently competitive,
others reassuringly warm culture cooperat...
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Categories:
recombinant, culture, earth, health, life,
Form: Political Verse
Selfthreatening Prayers
...With all the impeachment talk,
worried about ecopolitical Trumpian aristocracy,
five more years of narcissistic nonsense,
of white privileged entitlement
of second and third deadened generations
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Categories:
recombinant, health, integrity, paradise, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Wrong Premises
...I find it not right
nor sustainably left,
snapped the poet,
that sainted soldiers claimed healthy transitions
toward divinely rapturous peace
to promote principles of death
by deliberate
deg...
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Categories:
recombinant, health, integrity, peace, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
God of Healthy Purpose
...The static idea
of an unchanging personal Holy Spirit/Nature,
yet transcendent God,
works more effectively in my RealTime
and RealTalk
and Real EarthHealth,
as an integrity-unchanging god cons...
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Categories:
recombinant, caregiving, creation, god, green,
Form: Political Verse
Retinal Lethal
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Killer jeans ...
sidewalk recombinant retinal lethal
Hazardous faded denim optics
Mahogany bombshell —
moving target drop-dead beautiful
Double helix ...
T-virus (Tantalizing) ...
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Categories:
recombinant, imagery, love, science fiction,
Form: Romanticism
Life's Disaster Management
...Resilience planning
is to Disaster Management
for a crippled community,
As Permacultural planning
is to Anger Management
for growing Ego Resilience.
When WinLose cards are dealt
by climates...
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Categories:
recombinant, community, growth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
December 22nd 1996 Second Half
...an irrevocable positive transformation occurred
within and without
the world according to Matthew Scott Harris
got mussed and stirred.
No longer central focus of mein kampf,
NON G...
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Categories:
recombinant, absence, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
For Darren
...Some people you meet ...
Creep their way into your being
Like a kitten chasing shadows and dust
The pounce FAR more important than the prey
Little bits of things ephemeral
Intangible emo...
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Categories:
recombinant, friendship, health, metaphor, tribute,
Form: Free verse
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