Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
...Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.
I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The ...
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Categories:
anvils, brother, child, childhood, heart,
Form: Free verse
the age of Hate
...Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials - but I'm as invested in America as any high-school citizen can be. I've pledged alle...
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Categories:
anvils, america, anger, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse
no poet, am I
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poet, you called me?
oh no - that’s not I ...
there's truly just ONE
he writes ‘pon the sky
of sunsets and stars
of space without end
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Categories:
anvils, beauty, god, imagery, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
In Memoriam of a Broken Family
...Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust.
Six million irons, disjointed from their ores
Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils.
The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing
Were uncouple...
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Categories:
anvils, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
An Existential Curiosity
...This cosmos, indisputably is a sheer wonder
We cannot but bow before its grandeur
To what strange terrains it does open its doors
And what secrets are hidden beneath the stars
Man h...
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Categories:
anvils, mystery, universe,
Form: Rhyme
A Room That I Go To
...i ought to be having fun
here i am in a pile named bill
i wish i was relaxing in the sun
here i am banging my head and getting ill
there is a Room that i go to
where Prayer is The Ultimate Tr...
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Categories:
anvils, beautiful, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Nature
...Thin petals shine like rubies on a radiant plain,
solar flares are congregated in votive candles.
Vowed to gleam, regardless of the morning rain,
ambiguity was minimized by sunrise a...
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Categories:
anvils, beauty, moon, nature, tree,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Before It Was Complicated
...Around and around the merry-go-round
Bound by nostalgia and youthful
Cheer, we've spun until we no longer
Deem to be care and wrinkle free.
Ever so mindful of days gone by so
Fruitful did they...
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Categories:
anvils, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Abecedarian
My God, Thank You For Guarding Me Against Deceptions
...September 18 Scripture Meditations Based on Matthew 24-25
Key Verses – Matthew 24:4-5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, sayi...
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Categories:
anvils, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow Man
...walks with trampolines on his feet
Cracks jokes with the mortician
Reminds you of drunk uncle Todd at any wedding ever
Chops oak trees with a single swift swing
Smartest in the room full of docto...
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Categories:
anvils, birthday, drug, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Lucky Charms and Anvils
...Children passing through the valley of death
Their chatter amplified by the facades of closing in betrayal
They fear no evil that teaches them to be silent
And pay attention to imaginary pl...
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Categories:
anvils, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Love In Every Field
...those of us who caught or chased our love in every field
knew her best by memories that we caught.
anvils that we stood upon gave grain to find our shield
leave our stain upon the earth with eve...
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Categories:
anvils, devotion, earth, faith, journey,
Form: Couplet
Not of This Earth
...*Image of Child Sad Suffering provided by Pixabay.
Not Of This Earth
Poetic Form: Narrative
Asymmetric mistrals warp speckled vaporous pallidness toward rhythmless voids. Obv...
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Categories:
anvils, dark, death, earth, scary,
Form: Narrative
The Tops
...up a steep and narrow road
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap above the mir...
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Categories:
anvils, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ice On the Petal
...Ice on the petal -a shadow slides in
Broadsiding virgin light is what shadows do best
As emotions summit, this is the time to dread most
when hearts are hammered
by devilish anvils
coaxed alo...
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Categories:
anvils, life,
Form: Free verse
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