Medieval Poetry Translations VI by Michael R Burch
...These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and Middle English.
Exeter Book Gnomic Verses or Maxims
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch...
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Categories:
dolmen, fish, husband, love, ocean,
Form: Free verse
This World of Dew
...THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
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Categories:
dolmen, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Song of Amergin: Translation
...The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I a...
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Categories:
dolmen, ireland, myth, mythology, song,
Form: Free verse
Inspired By a Horse Is Stresses In Dresses
...Stresses in dresses are not wanting streams today they are wanting to watch a film where animals sing. It is great to know that a aqueous solution of a pickled onion jar is clever when unsealed and u...
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Categories:
dolmen, august, autumn, baseball, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
The Cromlech
...The Cromlech
Roots do not grow in monolith mono-light mono-life
the flat stone of wisdom balances on light and darkness
No moon without the sun the stars the little me in Universe
frighten...
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Categories:
dolmen, life, perspective, universe,
Form: Free verse
Night In the Eyes, Invading
...I do not know if this is true what I see:
I see in some dim, distant, desolate rock-hold
gathering peoples, driven as though by common fear.
A low mournful humming drifts with the breeze
of manhood t...
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Categories:
dolmen, mystery,
Form: Free verse