Furies Poems

Fear the Faulty Hand

...The Furies in all their rage hath not the vengeance in his soul 
Which boils like the maelstrom and spills upon the shore

The tide rising higher and higher 
til it fills the lowland of their bit...

If I

...O quatrain, if I would, could you?
Aren't we fancy-free?
Bolt, shock through! O baby blue!
Firewalk with me!

Ravine behind, seen in dreams?
Houses of the old.
Tend thy garden on the beam!
Te...

Stability Serene

...Guns, erupt in city street?
Shake the ground we love?
Poison, corrupt what is sweet?
Hear us, God above...

Fan out, troops; if we hold back;
Soon our fabled state;
Will of course soon fade to...

Hesiod: Ares translation by Michael R Burch

...Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, cou...

Petrarch translations into English

...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS

Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind, 
replaced by evil in hi...

Sarcasm of Life

...For humans, birth comes from death
Death leads to a new life
Life good or bad, it can be

Be it savory or bitter, life has an end
An end that furies some
Some see that finish as delight

Deli...

Thanksgiving

...
Twilight curls her lips shyly this foggy morning

Gone is the twinkling of her pearly white spring

Gone are the greedy songbirds herded away

Their perches now bare of whim and whimsy

Che...

As a mortal man of threescore and five years

...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...

In the desolate temple of the soul, flesh weaves over bone a silent epitaph

...In the desolate temple of the soul, flesh weaves over bone a silent epitaph,
Spirits lock thought within the ark of thought, and sometimes, a divine spark,
And women in furies pour vessels into fra...

Beneath the arched vault of infinity, immerse yourself in the mystified blue

...Beneath the arched vault of infinity, immerse yourself in the mystified blue,
Where loneliness utters incantations in silent reverberations
With a tempered voice,
In melodies of screaming blue, di...

We master the art of feeding our doubts, with the dark enchantment of a what if

...We master the art of feeding our doubts, with the dark enchantment of a "what if...”,
Beneath our feet grow roots that suffocate us in the fog of unanswered questions.
We don’t perish in the maze o...

Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING

...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...

Serenity

...The rain
furies out 
in a fight
against the wind.

Anger 
in search
of control
and dominance.

It falls 
with a purpose
of lashing out
at everyone and no one 
all at once.

They walk ...

Erinyes

...Bold furies crept unseen ~ the eve of Halloween,
and night had just begun ~ no evil left undone....

The Tale of the Hero That Fought the Furies

...""AH, but their anger is not a small thing
Where their fury demands its own fullness
They stink of pain and death, long blacken wings"
Their tormenting stings pure hell nothing less."" -- RJL  quo...

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