Prose Poems
...Prose Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immea...
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Categories:
uncapturable, animal, child, childhood, children,
Form: Prose
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
...Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten...
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Categories:
uncapturable, poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Early Poems I
...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
r...
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Categories:
uncapturable, kid, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael ...
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Categories:
uncapturable, evil, holocaust, racism, truth,
Form: Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
...My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lo...
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Categories:
uncapturable, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Sandy Hook Poems 1
...Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;...
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Categories:
uncapturable, children, school, student, usa,
Form: Verse
Rip
...R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is ...
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Categories:
uncapturable, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse
Lost: For the Children of the Holocaust
...Lost
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind ...
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Categories:
uncapturable, child, children, death, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Observance
...Observance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves an...
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Categories:
uncapturable, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
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:
uncapturable, holocaust, prison, race, racism,
Form: Verse
Something: Holocaust Poem
...for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse ...
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Categories:
uncapturable, absence, holocaust, horror, violence,
Form: Free verse
Epitaph For a Palestinian Child
...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child...
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Categories:
uncapturable, absence, bereavement, conflict, death,
Form: Epitaph