Spring Rights Poems

Respect for nature
Respect for authority
Respect for fellow man
The rules of majority

Honesty is contentment
Honesty in everything
Honesty of the heart
Alive as the spring

Joyful in common things
Joyful of...

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The idea of a living constitution
has the same forensic indeterminacy
as a committed dream.

I am content to trust this dream to the end
to have it fill...

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Does the U.S. Constitution speak of marriage at all
   Does it restrict giving birth to the Spring or the Fall…

The Bill of Rights...

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A chemical balance 
To measure the mass of a chemical
A beam balance 
To measure the mass of an object
A spring balance 
To measure the weight...

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Broken Glass 

Bits of color...
washed up on the beach. 
Items that tell stories, 
about faraway places, 
new people, and old. 

Red like roses, fine wine...

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The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the...

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MLK day on every third Monday of January
Remember his sermons daily though you celebrate him annually
Before that balcony where the bullet sent his blood flowing...

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artillery spent
      
               battery chickens rising...

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Unfair Calories 

Chocolate cake, 
can be eaten fast or slow. 
Depends on who, 
is at the end of the fork. 
But I tell you true,...

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Cockleburs

Small green weeds, 
with little seed pots, 
that stick to your socks. 

They travel with you, 
to the next place, 
that God wants them to...

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Rain

As I set here quiet, 
I gather my thoughts. 
I pray without the pomp...
of a beginning or an end. 
As He is always with me....

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Spring Flower

Long fine hair, 
that lay softly across her shoulders, 
and trailed down her back, 
all the way to her waist. 
The colors of brown...

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Whip Whistle Garden Spot

There is a garden. 
It is in a small town, in the middle of the park. A place has been dug up...

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Yellow Bird

My little sunshine colored bird, I am so proud of you. 
You did not walk when others ran. 
You did not talk when other...

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A deep, dark kindred spider looms to proffer the sentiment, 
That abuse just objectifies the long persistent winter:  
Scouring around playfully, but embedded in...

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