Winter Warming Poems

February 27th Lower Peninsula of Michigan
One week of true cold and snow is all
This year
Today is the warmest day ever recorded
For this entire month

An ancient...

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Between 
slender naked bows 
one ray
shines so bright 
as to warm 
the winter sky...

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Decade ago, the world laughed,
at the hole in the ozone layer,
the global warming was a joke,
the scientists got ridiculed.

Now a decade later, the ground hog...

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we've seen
               signs of it.
      ...

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I think on these things and thank God for my granny
whose kitchen was always full of good smells for the
young and the old:

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These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...






Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch

“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats

Brutality is...

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These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...



The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch

“Dust to dust ...”

I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of...

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I.

The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel

Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the...

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It’s freezing in here
Why are you in short sleeves dear?
How is it I’m always cold?
And no I’m not that old!

Jump in the air
Not in the...

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Climate warming is bunkum some say.
But I wonder what happened one day,
when a stark naked horde
swam and splashed in a fjord
in mid-winter in balmy Norway....

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White Hot Christmas
by Michael R. Burch

I’m back from my jog;
it felt like summer
on Christmas Eve.
What a bummer!
Forget the sleigh, Santa,
hire a Hummer....

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breathtaking melting  

  ice shelf floats away to sea ~

     a polar bear flees  



   ...

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Winter this year arrived way too soon
Global warming has grabbed us by the prunes
Predicting the future
We rely on computers
But can't solve all of our problems...

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Global warming is not here, they said, but it's been a weird winter 
Our winters are usually long, with tons of snow, cold and bitter
We...

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