Best Unendurable Poems
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
...English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the ......
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Categories:
unendurable, allah, arabic, culture, nature,
Form:
Verse
Fadwa Tuqan Translations
...Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadw......
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Categories:
unendurable, allah, culture, earth, love,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Icarus
...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli......
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Categories:
unendurable, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly,
Form:
Rhyme
Dejection
..."If we allow a deranged mind to control the course of human destiny,
then we become executioners in the annihilation of human dignity"
-by ......
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Categories:
unendurable, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Victim
...5/10/13
I’m the victim…
Are you the predator?
I feel hurt –
I am oversensitive
I am an unstable table
The pain’s TOO unbearable
Intolerable…
Unendurable…
Am I your bull’s eye?
Are you the strong, ......
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Categories:
unendurable, absence, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Gratitude
...Gratitude
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desperate madness, and aching sadness once held me tight
now, unexplainable memories, NOT unendurable, that's right
time went on, and beautiful love shone through
between qu......
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Categories:
unendurable, recovery from...people, people,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sorry, no! I don't want to go gentle into that good night
...Sorry, no! I don't want to go gentle into that good night!
I'm not up for a long, unendurable, end-of-life fight.
When it's my time, I'll opt for a quick, euthanistic squirt,
so I'll feel only a t......
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Categories:
unendurable, allusion, dark, death, health,
Form:
Light Verse
Insults
...Utterances offering the wrong ideas
Like murder-planning spears:
To their recipient an enough sting
But to the source songs to freely sing
The seventy-two teeth of crocodile,
Together jammed a......
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Categories:
unendurable, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Life In a Hot, Windowless Basement Dungeon
...I sit and sweat,
My pain does swell,
I'm living in
this unholy hell...
Time drags,
Like my lamed foot,
that twists and turns with glee,
The pain so much unendurable
Has got the best of me
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Categories:
unendurable, angst, depression, life, places,
Form:
Bio
Untitled 11
...This old love is unendurable:
its bough breaks in the breeze;
its frosted buds crack and splinter;
it's a heart stitched to a razor sleeve;
its wrists split and bleed and stain
like a shadow escaping......
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Categories:
unendurable, love, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Inged
...Ing/ed
He was:
timed
lying down
waiting
braving it, the pain, invincible
grimacing
sweating
hedging-his bets
not panicking-yet
pacing
gasping
falling
still
breathless
void
stopped......
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Categories:
unendurable, anger, bereavement, brother, death,
Form:
Free verse
When the Loss Is Ineffable
...When the Loss is Ineffable!
By Jean Bosco SIBOMANA
Win-lose game occurs in many situations
And bargainers made it a standard saying
When involved in various negotiations
To come up with a comm......
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Categories:
unendurable, anxiety,
Form:
Quatrain
No Longer Yet Forever
...How can a mere mortal poet
Ever truly capture
In mere mortal words
The true nature of love?
How to describe the sensations
That go whirling through the funnel
Of one's being like a vortex,
Or ......
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Categories:
unendurable, love,
Form:
Free verse
Still Solitude
...STILL SOLITUDE
I feel sick in still solitude.
Dull depressed days in delirium.
Compulsive confinement in ......
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Categories:
unendurable, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Unendurable
...Unendurable,
Incurable,
Out of breath
Before out of bed,
Dying slowly,
More each day
My destiny handed to me
In a twenty-pack
Foil sealed set
Young and dumb,
And lighting up
Of my invinc......
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Categories:
unendurable, angst, health, introspection, life,
Form:
Bio