Desdemona Poems - Poems about Desdemona

Lessons from Shakespeare Song lyric contest AI music

...Lessons from Shakespeare 

Here’s a song of tragedies
Four plays from bygone times
Shakespeare did the penmanship
For  these  heroic crimes.
Hamlet was a stately prince
King Lear a royal dad
...

UNFINISHED NOVEL

...UNFINISHED NOVEL
by Matthew Tripley

Once, an author I tried to be...
Dazed In The Life was my story.
Movies and music - central themes
Plotting characters and their schemes.
Surrounding the s...

Desdemona

...Almond-shaped, blue-green eyes,
Had more than their fair share of cries
What is she doing by herself?
Freckled cheeks, dimples too,
A smile no one seems to see through
Why isn’t she asking for h...

Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii

...ou forsook.

But I, though I loved you from afar
through silent dawns, and gathered rue
from gardens where your footsteps left
cold paths among the asters, knew—
each moonless night the nettles grew

and strangled hope, where love dies too.

I wrote "Desdemona" around age 22; it has been published by Penny Dreadful, Carnelian, Romantics Quarterly, Grassroots Poetry and Poetry Life & Times.



Fairest Diana
by Michael R. Burch

Fairest Dian...

Early Poems Ii

...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch

Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kis...

Love Poems Iv

...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. 

...

The Devil Has No Horns

...In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings 
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She lives on Babbit lane, and reads Currer Bell
She lov...

Vacuum

...Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are...

Desdemona

...Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to dance.
Your heart imagines wild romance. 

Though...

William Dunbar Translation: Sweet Rose of Virtue

...Sweet Rose of Virtue 
by William Dunbar [1460-1525]
translation by Michael R. Burch

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in bea...

Desdemona

...Sittin' at a red light
Playin' with the head light
Nothin' heavy on my mind

Stuck in Arizona
Thinkin' Desdemona
Wonderin' what I'm gonna find

Could it be a real blonde
Maybe feelin' real f...

Conspiracy and Evil Surmising

...I am a Victim, 
Lured by mascara, and by a pretext piety 
Induced through lust by immoral vermin 

I am a Victim 
Blindfold through cunnings to fest on a plowed field, 
“Whore scammed”, trapped...

Obsession

...Othello was in heat of passion’s fire
Being truly locked in love with his desire.
Seeing Desdemona gave the Moor new life,
Eloping in the night to make her wife.
S<...

Desdemona

...Desdemona

Desmond desires to dive into devout Desiree’s dreams

She dispenses delicious divinity yet destiny dangles defeat

Deep in deluge he discovers dazzling demons and devils

When diab...

My Singing Star

...MY SINGING STAR

Annual days in our University existed before too, only in annals,
Until the day, she on the ramp thrilled our hearts that came to the ears;
We had ‘Abbey Road on the River’; we l...

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