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The Enemy Within

...The Enemy Within

   "All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca

Oh Yes.
There is an Enemy Within.
It lives within, feeds upon, you.

Senseless, yelloweyed
It informs all that you do.

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NEW BEGINNINGS

...
Today’s blessing is about change 
comes from the philosopher Seneca
and long ago it was penned….

Every new beginning comes from…
some other new beginning’s end....

Why I Left the Religious Right

...These heretical poems on the subjects of God, religion and Christianity explain why I “left” the Religious Right.

If one screams below,
what the hell is "Above"?
—Michael R. Burch

Religion is...

Various Heresies 11

...Various Heresies 11



The beauty of the flower fades,
its petals wither to charades...
—Michael R. Burch



the U-turn poem
by michael r. burch

Life so defaulty,
Life so unfair,
why ...

Luck Happens

...The ancient Roman philosopher, 
Seneca the Younger,  
Is recorded to have said, 
“Luck is what happens when 
Preparation meets opportunity.”
So how does one prepare for opportunity?
In my exper...

All I Can Be

...“A man is as miserable as he thinks he is” -Seneca

I want to do bigger and better things in my life
I want to fulfill all my potentialities
I want my actions to be the example
I just want to be...

Clothes Make the Man

...Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear).
– Seneca


About two thousand years ago,
when Quintilianus said it
(at least, that’s who gets the credit),
his paradigm was apropos:...

Two Poems About the Iroquois

...Ruler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist

The thundering waters of the Niagara.
Voice of the mighty spirits of the water.
The natives believed and yearly sacrificed
a white canoe with fr...

Covid 19

...Come my friends and beat the drum
For a newer better world to come
So raise your glass to old friends known
And those who have now passed and gone

For bad times will have an end
And we know wh...

Ode To Hope and Despair

...Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno,
In gloom cries today’s time: O there’s no scope
For whoso lives, abandon all the hope.
Maybe he’d reasons enough to think so.

Yet, if body’s in need of oxygen,
...

I Fly Away Pray For Me- -

...Critical citizen
It's more than my opinion
Did you pray
Do you pray
Or do you just walk away

Delusional Denison
It has been mentioned
How cruel and distant you are
You are hidde...

Forgotten Feminist

...Lucretia Mott
The meeker sex, she was not!
At the convention in Seneca Falls
Showed men aren't the only ones with balls!

1/26/19

For Educate Me with Humor contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

Seneca Gun and Sonic Boom

...Seneca Gun and A Sonic Boom

A Seneca gun is usually only one 
After it has been over and done;
When you feel,
Wonder if real;
Two or more loom, were sonic boom.

Jim Horn...

War Paint Mixture

...
Haudenosaunee ...
translation: They made the house
But who painted it
the colors we now see ---
Red, white and blue
Let's go back in time shall we,
and observe who cut down the fi...

He Refutes the Tenets of Western Philosophy By Alluding To Rachel's Beauty

...Plato says that Heaven is perfect things, 
that nothing pure or good exists on earth. 
We leave the Ideal World when, at our birth, 
like ants who've briefly flown, we shed our wings. 

All infa...

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