Michael R. Burch

Michael R. Burch

Michael R. Burch's poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 19 languages, incorporated into three plays and four operas, and set to music, from swamp blues to classical, by 31 composers. Michael recommends the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

"The AI Poets" and "Trade Wars"

The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
 
​waiting for inspiration.

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Elegy

Asylum seekers, will you recognize me among the mountain passes’ frozen corpses?
Can you identify me here among our Exodus’s exiled brothers?
We begged for shelter but they lashed us bare; consider our naked corpses.
​When they compel us to accept their massacres, do you know that I am with you?

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