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Cervantes Poems - Poems about Cervantes

Latter-Day Don Quixote
... When and how did we see chivalry last or is it now a thing of the past and honour among thieves is no honour at all while beating my brains against the wall besting the dragons at ......

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Categories: cervantes, character, emotions, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
THAT STRANDED GALLEON
...A cool September day We came to La Magdalena of Santander Next to the Beach of Sardinero To see the penguins and the seals And the galleons "Ana de Ayala" The "Cantabria" and the "Quitus Amazona......

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Categories: cervantes, adventure,
Form: Free verse



Various Heresies 12
...Various Heresies 12 God Had a Plan by Michael R. Burch God had a plan though it was hardly “divine.” He created a terror: Frankenstein. He blamed death on man: was that part of the pla......

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Categories: cervantes, anger, christian, fear, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels
... Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry, With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples, When now a country honors not classical bards: O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarc......

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Categories: cervantes, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Ode
farewell
...Farewell  I'm tired of Portugal this small country, not bigger than a hamlet in Spain their worldview is what  is seen from an Olive cops  small-minded  and deceitful, bewildering   where t......

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Categories: cervantes, anti bullying, betrayal, courage,
Form: Blank verse



Lorca Translations Iii
...Lorca Translations III Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War and his body was never found. Pais......

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Categories: cervantes, bird, dark, death, light,
Form: Free verse
Places of the World
...As Cervantes said: For sightseeing, Milan, to the sea, Lusitania... As I say: To work, São Paulo... ......

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Categories: cervantes, adventure, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Miguel Cervantes Revisited
...Whirrrrrrrr went the wwwwwwindmills as the sworrrrrrrrds sliced the airrrrrrrrrr Climate change grrrrrrrrrrroaned as the trrrrrrrrruth was laid barrrrrrrrre......

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Categories: cervantes, extended metaphor, fantasy, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
...Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior automatically linkedin with Lothario; an unscrupulous seducer of women, based upon a charact......

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Categories: cervantes, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Love Cento Poem
...True Love Cento There must be a million ways To say I love you But these words will suffice for now Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all: If ever two were one, then surely we. If......

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Categories: cervantes, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Horse
...(Fighting windmills is the story.) A fantasy to escape the fall, the void of all Reality is not that tall when on the horse Stories plunge the young into the light Truth stabs the heart once in......

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Categories: cervantes, adventure, character, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:Lxxxiv
...If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI [Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.] If......

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Categories: cervantes, america, child abuse,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Speaking With Your Ink Not a Blot
...The mind indeed is a wondrous thing it has so much fully retained within therefrom schooling years to old age but no matter what it's tainted with sin Only God can deal with such a state His j......

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Categories: cervantes, muse, voice, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Cowboy
...A nightmare after something I'd had, a cowboy film, the late-night news and Cervantes at bedtime. On a spavined jade the last of all the cowboys with lean shanks astride gaunt flanks r......

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Categories: cervantes, angst, death, dream,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
...Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under th......

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Categories: cervantes, mentor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

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