Best Entrapments Poems

Breezes brush through the window caressingly,
soft fanning wings powdering my skin;
night's black velvet pricked only by the porch light's glow.
Alone, I feel no fear. Gliding the dark, my twin
has turned gossamer wings toward my tiny light-
metamorphosed--a radiant night creature.
I breathlessly await like culminating event,
faith strengthened...

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You can't imagine what its like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' promise to Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor, wasting offspring of ancient heredity,
destroying flesh, scriptures and stone with a savage Roman military synergy,
a discipline determined in it's destruction of...

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A world was created where every individual believed that being represented
was essential as religions require symbols 
to be interpreted by the ordained,
meaning of things provided for us like fertilizer on furrowed fields,
law & tax codes, medical knowledge, emotional expressions governed by consensus,
a democracy of dellusions,
dissent...

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You can't imagine what it's like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' physical promise to a Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor,
wasting offspring of ancient heredity, 
destroying flesh, scripture and stone
with a savage Roman military synergy, 
a discipline determined in it's...

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Oh God,
The entanglements and complexities
Of our worldly earth
Are overwhelming.
Sometimes its beauty and goodness
Are strangled and hampered
By the webs of civilization.
But most of the time
Your splendor survives
And shines through strongly
Despite the barriers,
For those who want to see and feel
And appreciate.

Grant that we,
Caught in the traps of...

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MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.



SONNET: RAVISHED
by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Ravished, by...

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Co-written with my good friend Linda-Marie Bariana**

In the New Year with love and good cheer,
endear the great future plan.
To the knowledge of self, to embrace God’s great wealth,
the health of a total life span.

With new resolutions and lofty conclusions,
intrusions into life seem maligned.
With firm application,...

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Alchemy
All that gathers are dreams and lust. 
Yet we both recollect to dust. 
Snarls and entrapments our enemies conceive. 
Smiles and smirks; they all deceive. 

Come onto me and never betray. 
Speedily swift and never delay. 
The long-lasting love, hidden is, within fortresses. 
Seekers we...

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In this day and time
Some of the older people wants
To be young again
Dressing, and acting like
Teens and young adults
Then there's the young people
Who's trying to be older
Dressing and acting like
Older adults, even putting
Up their age, be who you are
Don't fall into entrapments!...

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Prince you are and master who traffics merchandise
your ships o're seas do travel market paradise
trade you do in human souls commodity and ware
buy and sell your targets exchange material for our care
 
You have numbered mankind like slaughter for the sheep
branded their mind and hands...

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your beauty, hidden inside
can only be felt, or experienced
but not explained, in words, or otherwise
for it is perfect, pure, infinite
that illuminates the elements of my soul
in a mystic radiance that leads me to the 
lotus steps of your abode, always.

I, lose myself, in this process
meandering...

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Within Hellish Abyss, Sounds Serpent's Hiss,
Part Three

To avert from setting sun, transfixed gaze
 from such entrapments, wake I in a haze
Scenes of awe in pigments of reddish hues
 time there, centuries spent searching for clues!

Mesmerizing dance, prelude to Night's host
 appears apparition of Poe's pale...

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 Ever Onward Into the Light and Beyond
 Ever-Rising, The Ethereal Psalm
 where Fire and Stars within Collide
 a Paradise of Wisdom, a Flower Of Life
 Ever-Inward Into realms Untouched
 where the Souls Ablaze, In This I Trust
 Ever-Propelled by the Solar Thrust
 I Wind...

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Mystical magical incantations
create charming patterns.
Incandescent scintillating omens
foretell future romance, 
intriguing entrapments and temptations 
impossible to be ignored.

For Charming Patterns Poetry Contest
October 2, 2021...

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He has a iridescent sheen
that looks metallic in mid flight
she is soft and she is gentle
and a healing to his night

he trembles when he's frightened
and his wings , like roving clouds
but she's strong,  to elude the enemy
his descent entrapments , found 

but her devotion...

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