Campion Poems - Poems about Campion

A Spring Day In Derbyshire Dales

...Sit with me a while, here on the soft green grass, that hides the Gentian Violet and the Daisy peeping through and watch how the soft cool wind lifts the fronds of Willow, hanging down to touch the f...

Congratulations To Amy Schneider

...Congratulations to Amy Schneider
Who is Jeopardy’s 2022 champion
And to those who stood beside her,
Congratulations to Amy Schneider
Let’s all toast with a cup of hot cider
She’d kno...

Clerihew Campion

...Engish poet Thomas Campion
read verse to his son
Cherry-ripe hid famed lyric
a poem so euphonic...

The Hedge

...The hedge sat quietly on the side street while people passed by on their daily chores
She bathed in spring and summer so sweet as red roses and campion grew by her side watching and listening while ...

Medieval Poems Iv

...Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic ...

State of the Art Iv

...State of the Art (IV)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...”  — W. ...

For Ophelia

...Dappled light plays on a mossy bank
as the tranquil waters of an idle stream
meander dreamlike through summer, 
thick with nature's bounty. The only sound
on the pregnant air is the stirring of a...

Wishing Willows

...I knew a place down by the brook 
where, in the breeze, the willows shook
and wary hare's in summers haze
would leap and sport among the maize,
startling pheasants into flight
who'd hurdle hedge...

Morning Glory

...As dawn undressed the night,
putting the purples of sorrow to flight.
It started to paint an horizon new,
in burnished golds of every hue,
that streaked the heavens and edged each cloud
with fir...

Naughty Novelties

...NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.

This is my tra...

Epigrams V

...Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If we strip...

Thomas Campion Translation: Novelties

...NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.

Original Latin...

Epigrams

...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Bu...

Machair

...Again the machair blooms. Again these wild
Atlantic shorelines, battered but unbowed
as the marram grass, survive the wayward
blasts of winter, the silver sands endowed
with dancing colour, greet...

Tagboard Media

...Tagboard Media





                        
Hizzia Handfull  wrestled  Diffa Dank Hassinberg
to a twenty minute draw

Muchabout Nothing and Hussylover defeated
Brimms Doltrium and Moondog...

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