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Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch
...Am I really this old, so many ghosts beckoning? —Michael R. Burch Sleepyheads! I recite my haiku to the inattentive lilies. —Michael R. Burch Stillness: the sound of petals drifting dow......

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Categories: belligerently, death, god, grave, life,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Translations III
...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......

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Categories: belligerently, blue, life, night, old,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
... "The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist" The Sleeper shone as she walked through the Woods shining alive like nothing natural could caught in the moonlight una......

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Categories: belligerently, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Her Forehead the Moon
...The shoelaces untie, they've been caught by the kitten's eye. She touches, hesitantly, with her paw, the lace that rests long on the slope, raw, to the cool breeze of Mid-January; next to a......

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Categories: belligerently, abuse, allah, allusion, angst,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Silent Prayer
...Dark, punishing days lie ahead. Winter has crept up once again and I'm deep in sad contemplation, saying a silent prayer for the downtrodden witho......

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Categories: belligerently, care, longing, perspective, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Purple Moments
...An acquaintance asks me ‘how am I doing.’ I tell him I don’t like the color purple and move on. I am in Costco; a crowd is jostling, carts nudging me into places I don’t need to go to. Outsi......

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Categories: belligerently, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where I Love
...In this body in which I healthy live And, in this economic class in which I study comparative social investments, some more belligerently competitive, others reassuringly warm culture cooperat......

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Categories: belligerently, culture, earth, health, life,
Form: Political Verse
For Old Time's Sake
...For old time’s sake The night was cold and devilish too You pushed me said I’m leaving you Belligerently you slammed the door Crushing my heart some beastly claw I hear the poet who said lo......

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Categories: belligerently, forgiveness,
Form: ABC
Ideology Me Not Me
...Unidentified my world this push and shove battalion take from them and leave them broken Crassly ridiculed by viral industries black blood automaton the throwaway plagues of economy Enemies......

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Categories: belligerently, identity,
Form: Free verse
Tormens Humanum
...I established a rapport with the Sacred Cow and it stepped all over my toes the oil of anointment in my crankcase I was limping worthy of an asterisk an army of monks couldn't keep me pure lau......

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Categories: belligerently, how i feel, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sins of Supreme Suppression
...Not to play any blame game, in this our new co-evolutionary capacity for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation long become YangDominant associated with monotheistic 'civilization', aristocratic an......

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Categories: belligerently, earth, health, language, math,
Form: Political Verse
Belligerently Positive Anarchism
...A belligerently positive anarchism, a lack of plan, embracing a peaceful mannerism, learning to stand: in place. Rest forever… …in the light of space. Moses to the river of......

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Categories: belligerently, adventure, change, courage, devotion,
Form: Carpe Diem
Life As I Know It
...This agonizing pain I feel, seems to have placed itself permanently in my life. Such Anguish, Indestructible distress; somewhat like a wife petrified for her life, battered My brain is disorderly ......

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Categories: belligerently, grief, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Prima Don
...On the last evening of a wonderful weathered summer, flitting between the branches of our rowan tree and the Chinese wind chime ......

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Categories: belligerently, bird,
Form: Free verse
Joyless Joseph
...Wordless worries wander wearily working wayward, Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide. As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal, Essence easily evaporates, exeunt Emile. ......

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Categories: belligerently, crazy, creation, imagination, ,
Form: Alliteration

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