Sad English Poems

Dream Song of the Thunders
Chippewa saying
translation by Michael R. Burch

Sometimes I bemoan my “plight”
when all the while
the wind bears me across the immense sky.


What is...

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"Memory is a treasure, once lost may never again be found" by poet

As I clean my closet for the last time,
each dress, each coat, I...

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Our Jhat was a boisterous hound
He loved to run, romp, and play
He started as the runt yet a clown
His antics stole our hearts away
We lost...

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"Predators lurk in darkness. Sometimes however cautious we are, they jump upon us to play havoc. We build dreams, but never know when cruel fate...

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 what stunning sight you are,
         beautiful blue jay!
  your wings carry you so far
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Outside my window lives a chickadee,
he loves snowy green pine,
and has a family of about twenty-three;
he loves the snow and falling snowflakes divine,
and each...

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"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD,...

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The Starry Night

Holding onto the iron window, gazing at Alpilles,
It's a magnificent night, filled with stars,
I wonder, is it possible? I'm on hills, 
Reaching the...

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I watch my kitty playing every day,
she insists on it as she is quite spoiled:
true, I am the reason she is this way,
you see...

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ZEN DEATH HAIKU V

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

A cat in heat
can't catch a mouse? —
pathetic! 
—Kinpu, loose translation...

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"I have built my foundation with life's bricks;
I exist. I am me. And that has been enough. "

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"If I were your love: You would be my everything; my soul and
my heart;  my today and my tomorrows; and my forever."

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Dear mother, I have not come for awhile,
and got lost in the rows searching for you;
and can sense your laugh and smile !
Things I...

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From our "One Small Step" to a quantum leap
Into a world most of us do not know.
likelihood exists that we're in too deep,
too far we...

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The years have passed since your last Mother's Day;
       to date, they've made up fifty-two long years.
With each, the...

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