Turk Poems - Poems about Turk

...Gee, how we blame our culture for starting this! Oh, how ignorant can we be! We blame men as evil and macho? Yet we drooled when younger over Ralph Macchio. Ask any woman who gets up at three!......Read the rest...

...A Poem Of WW1 ANZAC Day 25th April 2018 Let’s have at Johnny Turk Winston Churchill said, We’ll secure the Dardanelles, Keep our Russian trade fed. His words so casually uttered May hav......Read the rest...

...Lightning strikes colossal oak, bronze armor split like firewood by God’s electric axe, soft pithy interior exposed in winter air. Walking through the meadow, knee high grass quivering under the ......Read the rest...

...I saw a man die who took a stance I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance I saw the boycotts and the embargoes I saw trafficking in human cargos I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil and......Read the rest...

...Global pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic! Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic! Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture! Who did ever dream of a dead......Read the rest...

...A tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog. The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman Strains to see beyond the wheel. The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan. It’s his ......Read the rest...

...I sigh when I watch men and women just sit home drawing unemployment when they are fully able to work. Such benefits make me paranoid. I see: some seem so sure just swimmin’ in hope that their......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poets VI beMused Michael R Burch Perhaps at three you'll come to tea, to have a cuppa here? You'll just stop in to sip dry gin? I only have a beer. To name the greats: P......Read the rest...

...The house is boiled cabbage goose fat, gizzard stew, and beets. Windows steam and simmer, you can write your name on the glass winter or summer. If you can live among rutabaga or borscht; if ......Read the rest...

...State of the Art (III) These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work. Come ......Read the rest...

...Turkish Poetry Translations II Çanakkale Sehitlerine "For the Çanakkale Martyrs" by Mehmet Akif Ersoy loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Was there ever anything lik......Read the rest...

...Yahya Kemal Beyatli translations Yahya Kemal Beyatli (1884-1958) was a Turkish poet, editor, columnist and historian, as well as a politician and diplomat. Born born Ahmet Âgâh, he wrote under the......Read the rest...

...Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish Na......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems IV The Toast by Michael R. Burch For longings warmed by tepid suns (brief lusts that animated clay), for passions wilted at the bud and skies grown desolate and gray, for......Read the rest...

...I've settled for settlement, I've settled for ease. I've settled for slippers, and shooting the breeze. I've settled for quiet, not rocking the boat. I've settled for scarves, and a sensible......Read the rest...