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Cheyne Poems - Poems about Cheyne


Chaucer Translation: Rejection

...Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds ...
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Categories: cheyne, beauty, french, heart, innocence,
Form: Roundel

My Heart Forgets To Breath

...Kussmaul 
a german man
for which a pattern 
of breathing was named 
breathing that is a reflex
which the body uses
to correct a sickness
at first shallow 
then deep and fast
Cheyne-Stokes
a...
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Categories: cheyne, passiondeath, body, death,
Form: Free verse




Book: Reflection on the Important Things