Beauty Epigram Poems

These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an...

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       i were
        dip'n
had thuh dizzies
    one in each
...

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   ‘Pon the sequoia
         It’s thick
   Latched to earth

   hern naked...

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when I look at a bird
in a tree
the first thing
I notice is
its colours
are
within the lines...

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POEMS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE by Michael R. Burch

Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch

a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!



Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies...

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EPIGRAMS IV

Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience.
—Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to...

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 destiny like a scarlet ire nestles in a windy eternity....

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Cards on hand
Numbers and Faces
Two colors not blonde
Kins that bond
Form in lines
Like bordelines
Round or Chinky
Winky or rinky
Question you asked
Answered or basked
Last card in line
Tossed or...

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Yes!

At the top of my voice, I confess that

Intoxicated I am by life's unsurpassed beauty 

For its finest wine I have drunk:

God's love!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
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If, even for once in our life,
We exclaimed: " How beautiful life is."

Unquestionably,

We have justified all misfortunes,
That fate does upon us bring!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
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If u loved, you may write sound poetry;
If u loved & lost, words add a higher degree
Of lonely beauty and crowded clarity
As was true of...

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If you're discovering love from earth to heaven, read Joe; if you seek beauty of daily living, read Vijay (under God's compassionate sun/SON)

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Love without regret,...

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The most marvelous moments 
       are the ones that we did not have....
      ...

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Imagination Is
SEEING
With the EYES
of GOD

II
The World Is
Nothing More than
YOURSELF
pushed out

**N. Goddard, author, died about 1972; lived in Barbados....

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Volatile beauties,
     our fleeting lives...
     What absurd wonders,
     our joyful sad fates...
 ...

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