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Face the false starts

...I think I’ll make a portrait
With inky words of my soul
But false starts get in the way
I’m hungry the body says
Feed the body, not the soul
The soul will pester my body

Make...

Smoking Will Kill You

...SMOKING WILL KILL YOU

He said “Smoking will kill you!”
catching the faint smell, scanning 
for ash trays as he entered her apartment,
ready to accept months of miscalculation 
of red lips and ...

Making of a Poem

...Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, 
Was exiled in an isolated Italian island during WWII,
Only communication he had with the world,
Were thru the letters delivered by the postman(Mario).

Mar...

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...

Dinner

...where to begin
we're going to
go stepping out
dressed in what
some may see
as fashionable
but for us we
dress passionately

looking at you knowing
what's underneath your
yellow dress fit t...

Honey of Fire Trees

...honey of fire trees

South American
monstrous fluffy gingerbeast ~
buzz of flying mice

5/23/2019
Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor - ...

Of Miracles

...Believe
in miracles.
They occur, 
because there is a God
that makes 
the impossible 
possible. 
Just believe.
Have faith.
Miracles 
are tantamount
to wishes.
Yours is God's command.
He m...

The San Jose Mine Rescue 2010

...Located in the hot Chilean desert of Atacama
Is the San Jose mine that became the focus of drama
The miners reported for work, to start their day
Totally unaware of what was coming their way.
...

Wanderlust

...Remind me of the sea that kisses the coast of Algiers
Where the tides are soft and the winds all but fierce
In that country past the strait of Gibraltar
Where the trip to Casablanca didn’t halt he...

Sir Ernest Shackleton

...Born in Ireland in eighteen seventy four
He was a remarkably brave explorer
Three times to Antartica he did go
To that barren wilderness of ice and snow.

Once with Captain Scott and twic...

Bucket Lists

...List one: climb up to Machu Picchu,
ride the Orient Express,
see the Terracotta Warriors,
find a monster in Loch Ness,
brave the winds of Patagonia,
hike along an Everest ridge,
visit Paul Gaug...

To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner

...As soon as I heard 
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we ma...

Power of Journeys

...Power of Journeys

New horizons speak in hope and pull me to Pablo Neruda’s country
                   ‘Twenty poems of love’ inspired by Santiago Robinson Crusoe Island
Serene landscapes volcano...

The Crying Grass

...The crying grass 
(for the late Victor Jara,* Pablo Neruda 
and Salvador Allende)
by ‘bro. zayid’

In this stadium
of footlaunched spotted balls
of what should be promising soccer stars…
In t...

Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan

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Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan


(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour...

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