Tokens In Exile
...Seconds hunger
days unweaned
compression fracture
broken dreams
Minutes uncounted
hours unnamed
Humptiest Dumpty
in pieces again
Yahweh once spoken
reason besieged
tokens in exile
pa...
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Categories:
unweaned, god,
Form: Rhyme
Today
...On this Day
On this day,
the lonesome vine broke,
A cargo ejected at nature's will,
blood shatters from the womb
another life from Life brought forth.
On this day,
umbilical cord sev...
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Categories:
unweaned, baby, birth, birthday, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Icarus
...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...
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Categories:
unweaned, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here wa...
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Categories:
unweaned, holocaust, race, racism, truth,
Form: Free verse
Chaim Nachman Bialik: On the Slaughter of the Jews
...Holocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter of the Jews"
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Merciful heavens, have pity on me!
If there is a God approachable by ...
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Categories:
unweaned, bible, holocaust, horror, murder,
Form: Verse
Nightmare Awoken
...Avatar Queen
The mask or the screen,
What’s never to know
What’s never to see
Avatar Queen
Your name to mislead,
One more cryptic posting
That always deceives
Avatar Queen
Both petty and...
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Categories:
unweaned, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Avatar Queen
...Avatar Queen
The mask or the screen
What’s never to know
What’s never to see
Avatar Queen
Your name to mislead
One more cryptic posting
That always deceives
Avatar Queen
Both petty and p...
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Categories:
unweaned, allusion, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Unweaned
...Evening, and I hurry home to wait
The coming night
The shadows dancing at the gate
The long delight
The jasmines thin white dress
The fragrant milk
The soft, rich silk
The tongue leaching the breast...
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Categories:
unweaned, happiness,
Form: Verse
The Friar
...The friar
Revered innocence
You’ve got to try it
put it on your lap
a smiling little thing
still sheer and brittle
if possible blind or deaf,
almost genderl...
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Categories:
unweaned, childhood, forgiveness, introspection, recovery
Form: Free verse