Autumn Violence Poems

Misogynistic man
and violence are linked.
I really want to make
this species extinct....

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Earth black
ancient lands
red skies orange 
sands jagged jaded 
two tower stands stand
reaching 
into a dark sky 
storm horizons ride 
the edge of shadows 
Blacken earth
Ruined...

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This is a fabula in the time of twilight
The drops of rain were soaking me slight

She wanted to contact me but I was
Angry with her...

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My Destiny
Oh God! Look at my destiny page plain
Why separation is written time and again

Her Conversation
She avoids conversation,
But I want confabulation.

Your Complain
Your eyes' tear come...

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october hurls its winds
in cold unnatural
spooky ways
its clouds screeching
sounding scary silences
midst an eerie
twisted all too déja vu 
twilight zone
halloween spinster



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Published in my...

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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...

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A beautiful, perfect, autumn day it was. 
The gold and red sneaking in the Central Park leaves as it 
always does. 
I wanted to stay...

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Translations of Holocaust poems by Ber Horvitz aka Ber Horowitz

Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray ...
I...

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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,...

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Today is Enough

The morning came early. 
In fact I was up all night. 
I watched the coming and going…
of the stars.

God’s work ever at hand,...

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Sore shoulders
Rough nightmares
In my sacred pillow
An unexpected message
From the past
Under a new name
I feel the hair on my neck tingle
I'm being watched
An autumn has passed
So...

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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...

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raging waves
of retaliation
enough is enough



posted on August 15, 2018...

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Bud Rowder grew up in wind-swept Kansas,
lived a farming life until the age of nine,
when Arapaho raiders charged on in,
poor Bud was the only one...

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"Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun."
So says the gun lobby—the bad guy with a gun!
School, shop,...

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