Long Smelting Poems

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,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?

Only a...

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Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...

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"What most nourishes
and yet also entices
your active love,
your curiosity invested in achieving highest priority outcomes?
What are your outcome priorities?
Talk about the top of your deep-loving bucket list,
your plans for yourself and your loved ones
during this...

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Petersen House, Washington, D.C.  

(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, 
and the life and death of 
the sixteenth president in particular).

between a hard spot of whiskey 
 ...

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The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones. 
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling, 
pruning, chopping, digging, hoeing, 
weeding, branding,...

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Triumphant milestones rocked and rolled thru this (viz – modern) age  
     began in the dawn of Homo Sapiens early evolutionary light
     when those prime ape...

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This fool doth not consider himself wise,
writing paltry poetry difficult
to read and/or actualize
methinks perusers of great literature
snub nose how I miserably advertise,

laughable attempt to aerobicise
fifty plus shades of gray matter
lobbying showy words agonize
zing effort perhaps...

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in the year 2098 on the planet Julephia in the Huilinium Galaxy an element called Pubbius was found, generating interest from all points of the galaxy. While mining pubier,(an alloy used to make rods in...

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Destiny demands that we be the debtor 
that we sacrafice for the skin of our future,
We left the cradle of the Caucasuses to explore,
to plant the dreams of our Creator,
Venturing into the virgin chaos
where the...

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What will happen when I'm gone?
will the world remember me?
will the people notice
the absence? When the 
professor calls roll, and
makes those tic-marks 
of authority, my name
will not feel its painful 
slice, will it be
noticed, will...

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February 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 4-6

Key Verse – Joshua 4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared...

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i pull out the smiles she gave to me'

joy dances in my heart as i spoke to her

perhaps she would make me a heir for talking to her

like a smelting iron my hearty shivers

Maybe i...

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Homey eyes of peasant stew
A cozy-colored mossy mew
Stony cottage, snowcheeks bleu
The forest fins for frosted fruits.

The warmest thought speaks crumbly bread
A partridge purr puffs through my head
That grants the grunkest grue a ‘Get!’
To packrat out...

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Dusty shoes and wipsy hair
But i do not care 
I am headed to Jozi
Smelting hair and drowsy heat
That will not deter me
I am headed to the streets
paved in gold, Jozi

With nothing more than the clothes...

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I don't have bling
I don't rap, play blues or sing
I'll never be a cool black guy
My strut is weak
My cred roams far yonder
Miles away from the street
I'll never be a cool black guy
The booty I...

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I really truly don't know 
why
some things under the 
sun and sky
attract and catch my 
fancy

Quite queerly they 
happen to be
hot melting smelting 
solids
that melt into exquisite 
liquids.

Take for instance heated 
liquid gold
molten glass or...

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Mountains and Generals 

What scared me most as a child were tall mountains dark silent sometimes
 white topped and often wearing a crown of a murderous miasma of gloom. 
 Once my ship docked in...

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In my present absence
I’m trying to remember where I misplaced the key
To unlock the door to my own existence

I rise with the smelting icecaps
Only to come crashing down with the rising levels of pollution
So I’m...

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Surfing, morphing
Through amorous tidal waves
Thou Babylonian scoundrels
Poisoned, ordained
By the blues-begging rasps
Smelting Earth
Caching together as one
By force and virtue
Yielding life's battalions
Seeking solace, fame or gentle ears
What captures me most
About this glazed nuthouse
Riffs and thieves
Throwing down as...

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Hair ablaze like logs in a forest fire
The flames engulfed her like a human torch
The air behind her became mystified
Choking, yelling for her to yield
She was stunned by our ill content
Her punishment immediate 

She was...

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Breathe for all that you choose to cease
taking gentle steps gliding across the mantles of degrees
created potion mixed in the motion, administered vial of bewitching 
unwithheld acrobatics performed, in the grind of ores desired smelting

A...

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Frozen in time like a snow flake floating forever
Your deep blue eyes pale skin lifeless shiver
Fallen with cold fever from the top of her chain reaction
Arid beauty smelting like snow from the imagination 

A chaotic...

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Half baked metal, smelting in a dorm
one good eye, the middle of a storm
Loss erupts oozing, from a broken spire
query one’s despair, then tell me you're a liar
sweep sweep sweep its time to start the...

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Weary thoughts floor to the river
With the fall of the chills I quiver
Nose red, chicks blue, eyes watery
Hands cold, lips brittle with memory

A flower bud in the smelting ice
A seed in your eye of something...

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A heat wave in Winter does not a smile make.
To be lulled into relaxation would be a mistake.
Don't pray for the rain if you fear the storms.
Gulf heat greets the cold, and the clouds form.

Floods,...

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