Best Haranguing Poems

“Slips the Blue Satine”



Desire bites 
a sonnet ripped 
where the voice projects
through glossy cherry bit lips
down a telephone line
wrapped around long legs

speaking soft words
welcoming you...

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Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems



Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of...

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Dopo lunghe vicende della vita
Mi ritrovai seduto su un divano       
Con un telecomando fra le dita.
When my life struggles...

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feared and fearless in his prime,
   cracking, crumbling in due time.

     accusing, haranguing, his voice 
   ...

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Dotard Trumpery used to disgust the "ery" excrescence ending his surname,
for its apocope he approached Megan Trump and poached her maiden name,
to which Joshua Trump,...

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I stand where the sunset hugely spills    
Out upon subdued but still hotly
Glowering plains...        ...

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Somewhere between here,

blase and tomorrow's

derangement, lost the plot in

a moment of coherent clarity,

'twas quite a peculiar notion

unsettling predicament of

knowing one's own psyche,

silently questioned the

absolute mindfulness,

hardly...

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WEATHER FORECAST 2018

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!  This is your friendly meteorologist at local station lucky 13 on the dial with the upcoming forecast...

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back a small number of years thee diva of this domicile
exhibited an aura, charisma, enigma…devoid of any guile
boot of late turned a cold shoulder to...

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Such Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch

for the mothers of Gaza

There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed...

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IMPOSITION OF PAIN

you come calling
banging on my bangs
at the midnight hour
cupping my countenance 
roughly in your hands
scraping more suffering
haranguing harder and harder
my head harasses the...

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A most irksome, most self-righteous creature on earth,
this megaphoning doomsday prophet of the street,
harassing and haranguing everyone to repent.


This holier-than-thou dude with an attitude,
is just...

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Stormy sea churns with frightening fury 
Seamen shouting about a mangled mizzenmast
Cragged cliffs are awaiting ahead
Eerie ghost gray sky defines haranguing hope
Fear foments in dire...

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I awkwardly, ineptly, and submissively fumbled thru life...,
whereat purposefulness rarely gained traction

Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself before
these myopic bespectacled eyes.

Infancy, babyhood,...

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Though few of us "sigh like furnace 
with ballads made our mistress's eyebrow" 
these days . . . 
a poem is still as good as...

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