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The Scarlet Cleaver

...The butcher
in a trance
this death
then many more
The cleaver
paused in motion
destruction 
to the fore

The blood
is pooling downward
in images
besmeared 
Its stain
a violent crimson
...

Categories: besmeared, death,
Form: Rhyme

Runaway Dream

...Out the window my dream go
Escaped from the clutches of self
Wandering the streets beggarly 
A holigan besmeared in slime and guts
Where is my dream? Where is the world I hoped to see myself?
Wh...

Categories: besmeared, deep, depression, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse

Faiz Ahmed Faiz Translations 2

...These are English translations of Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz. 



Speak!
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Speak, while your lips are still free.
Sp...

Categories: besmeared, love, romance, song, spring,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Crawler

...Leave me colorless
Fill me with an oversized anecdote besmeared on my thoughtlessness
I have no stories for you my second
No war crimes for you my first
No love for you my third
For after all I ...

Categories: besmeared, allusion, anger, autumn, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Art

...The selfsame page echoes wordlessly like barren lord
To write in characters of light, Oh! bucket headed bard
Understand, art-like slumber must set-the soul free
Beyond time's fabric walls, in boun...

Categories: besmeared, art, integrity,
Form: Free verse

For You Nicole

...FOR YOU NICOLE

The night the blood on the sod
Looks your birthday apron that
Wipes off a murderer's sweat.

Hands besmeared with slime,
Smell of putrid snick,maniac
Who has to inherit a corn...

Categories: besmeared, death, mystery,
Form: Free verse

I Just Hit the Unicorn

...fetishized lament
echoed
from colourfully besmeared winding sheet


devouring luminosity
become my pivotal infringement
vigorous luminosity


somethin' s wrong with her transcript
    -the...

Categories: besmeared, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Meaningful

...Meaningful



From the moor cries were genuine
Not betrayal it was
A cosmetic topped democratic

Poor quarrels were hopeful
Lying down in icy cool
Majority of halves, got torture being fool...

Categories: besmeared, absence,
Form: Blank verse

Supermoon Eclipse

...(Blood Moon)

Fulsome Cynthia languishes  for her nightly rendezvous'
Besmeared in bloody red she stands before sun god 
Glowingly glides towards Endymion to  solemnise their vows
While his moth...

Categories: besmeared, love, marriage, red,
Form: Quatrain

Giving Thanks

...I Am Jesus! I Am Judas!

I am Jesus! I am Judas!
Was newly engraved on the arm of my dear loved child.
'When?', asked I, 'Why so?', I trembled,
I hated the very idea of the body,
A gift of god ...

Categories: besmeared, angel, faith, mother, son,
Form: Narrative

Copla Treinta Y Seis This Bad Guy World

...COPLA TREINTA Y SEIS: This Bad Guy World

On the international plane
Yi Jing’s advice might even fail:
Lone man lame duck

Engage not the enemy lone
Bad Guy on his own will turn tail:
Let run...

Categories: besmeared, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Lost Love

...You were once good to me,
We both had fun,
We were hopeful,
Ambitious,
Mint in our time,

Your voice was soft,
With lips that I lust,
Elegant in your structure of 
thought,
Spellbound by wo...

Categories: besmeared, loss
Form: ABC

Wolfman

...The wolves were hunting food
And sighted grazing sheep;
The pack encircled them,
Deciding which to keep.

As Wolfman joined the hunt,
The leader brought one down,
And killed it in a flash -
It died w...

Categories: besmeared, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme