Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch
..."Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde"
by Petrarch
translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
modernization by Michael R. Burch
If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low?
And if love is, what thin...
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Categories:
compassless, death, drink, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme
Under the tattered cloak of the past night
...Under the tattered cloak of the past night,
I awoke as a traveler in the shadow of a compassless vessel,
Navigating the black river of an unknown destiny.
And behold, I suddenly got lost
In a cho...
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Categories:
compassless, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Profundity
...I am mad.
The question is not yet settled
whether all that is profound
is compassless in the vast ocean of lucid reason
I loved, unguided,
Among many millions of fragrant flowers
Knowing nothi...
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Categories:
compassless, confusion, nostalgia, ocean, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Let You Guide Me
...I don’t even know what the future holds
I don’t even know how I am going to do things
Take care of things
But I am walking
Trust that God will carry me through
Trust that He will make a way
I am tota...
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Categories:
compassless, faith,
Form: Free verse
Biography (Them)
...When you are young your life is not about you
You it owe to them for love, for sacrifice and rent
Youth is the margin of our parents ever do
The young know their life only by old consent
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Categories:
compassless, history, life, philosophy, father,
Form: Verse
Miseducation of the *******
...Mentors like priests preparing me for holy rite
Institutional slaves to a false trinity
Subduing adventure, exploration and discovery to classroom rigor
Eternal stairway ... moonbeams to the golde...
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Categories:
compassless, black-african amereducation, me,
Form: Acrostic