Formosa Poems - Poems about Formosa

...Speaker, speaker I'm listening... You’re doing the right thing! Unswayed from Kremlin propaganda Isn’t how our country should swing Faith changed; policies rearranged Soul-searching, ......Read the rest...

...Freakish Fanny fled fine Finland For far-fetched Formosa fields, Forsaking fantastic fiords forever Forfeiting flourishing forests, Frigid fertile farmland, festivals Forgetting feared future fi......Read the rest...

...Formosa, I conceive you are not mine, probably never you will be ... but that won't prevents me from wanting you ... Star, I notice you are hopelessly distant, absent ... but it doesn't er......Read the rest...

...This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriati......Read the rest...

...AntiPoem 4 “Santo and Johnny” (Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading) Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass Just oozing out their mel......Read the rest...

...OCTAVE: LORD, as morn yields to noon (or dawn) my SONnet will please, tease, release: I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus And His sacrifice on Calvary: We pray against the Virus W......Read the rest...

...The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars, his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion. His world is ......Read the rest...

...Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch We cannot know the beheaded god nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still the figure's trunk......Read the rest...

...Infinity Found If joy could just be measured in a flower, And happiness's worth by breadth of smile, Or all life's pleasures fit into an hour, What of my journey fits into a mile? I traveled......Read the rest...

...Formosa, I notice you're not mine, probably never you will be ... but that is not prevents me from wanting you ... Star, I realize you are hopelessly beyond me ... but it does not erase y......Read the rest...

...Come, You by Rainer Maria Rilke loose translation by Michael R. Burch This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1......Read the rest...

...The USS Ticonderoga In January of ’45 Was engaged off of Formosa When the kamikazes darkened the skies. Hit on the flight deck and the island, One hundred forty four died. An inferno......Read the rest...