Absalom Poems - Poems about Absalom

Geoffrey Chaucer translations 1 by Michael R Burch

...These are modern English translations of love poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. These are poems of love, longing, passion and desire.

To Rosemounde: A Ballade
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael...

No Savior Required

...David Didn’t Require a Savior

It seems that God loved David so much.
Yet he destroyed a lot with his very touch.

He killed Uriah to have his wife,
Which resulted in a lifetime of strife.
A b...

Bloodstained

...Plan, in the process of hatching, gave romantic pleasure.
The Macbeths decided to dig deep for their dream treasure.
While honey dripped through their words, poison brim-filled their hearts,
Envir...

Absalom

...I love my daughter 
My God loves her you know 
We all have an Absalom 
A little in you and me 
a little in those we love
And to my dying breath you know
Absalom will be with me 
I'm so tired s...

A Worrisome and Quarrelsome Christian

...A man I believed was just venturesome 
But to his old enemies meddlesome,
To newly made ones quarrelsome 
And to even his best friend worrisome 
Proved them, all right with The Irksome: 
In a cr...

David's Lament For Abasolom

...DAVID’S LAMENT (FOR ABSALOM)
			
What voice is that beneath the wild thorn trees,
Where birds go up and broken branches swing?
Ah, words out of a dead mouth cannot reach
The ears of a waiting ki...

Trees Are Like Humans

...Like humans have a life,
Although people don’t face a murder charge
For hacking them down.

Like humans indulge in strife
But don’t wear their animosities like a barge
Nor noise them in the tow...

Defeat Causes

...Accursed thing-cravings

Covetousness that prevails

Abiding not in God’s will

Cleaving to self-might

Absence of God’s leadership

Cause my spiritual defeat.*

*2Samuel...

50 Words For Poe: Hysteria

...
"50 Words for Poe: Hysteria"




Incantation to you
Manifesting the Phantom 
with the Hysteria Paroxysm Blues

Hellfire Club got nothin’ on you...

On Rode the Valiant

...Through the gates of Absalom,
steed and gate did ride,
charging fast and furious
o'er centuries gone by;
peace did shout in vain,
the Lidless Prophets...
must come again,
nigh is the evening s...

Talos

...I stoked every fire echoing into the mouth of arthritis?
A rhyming balm develops epileptic quasar fear?
If so, will he enter arbitration “Sold Out”?
Sleep wills She to cocoon beside you, Artemis?
...

A Biblical Abc

...Abraham the father of the faithful
Barnabas the encourager so graceful
Caleb who believed victory to bring
David the shepherd boy became king
Exodus the book containing God's law
Felix reasoned ...

Disappointing Friends

...Just which one makes you saddest mate
When you must disappoint a friend
Or when they’ve disappointed you?
I’ve pondered this a lot of late
As more and more friends meet their fate.
I shouldn’t b...

Whatever It Takes

...When two choose each the other
Having decided this, their fate
A bond, a pledge, a vow replaces
That which, unchosen, cannot wait
Even when it requires a warrior resolute,
Vitality deathless, an...

Mahanaim

...Mahanaim

Israel’s father, Jacob
had lived a life of tricks and cons, 
till at last he’d met his match of matches
when he came face to face with his mighty God.

All because he had conned his ...

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