Voltaire Translations 2 by Michael R Burch
...These are translations of Voltaire, one of the world's most prolific, best and most influential writers. Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was an amazingly prolific writer who produce...
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Categories:
gangrened, french, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Betraying and Sabotaging Haiti
...Everybody desires something from our beloved Haiti.
Everybody is stealing from our embattled country.
The same individuals or goons, who are complaining,
Are the ones conniving, backstabbing and s...
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Categories:
gangrened, corruption, desire, discrimination, evil,
Form: Rhyme
White Noise Blues
...(after the novel)
I don’t care about fashion
I just try to keep warm
I’ve heard all about passion
Sounds like a great big storm
I stay out of the freeway
No I don’t venture there
Oh, yes, I ...
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Categories:
gangrened, america, anxiety, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Voltaire Translations
...This is my modern English translation of a French poem by Voltaire, one of my all-time favorite writers. The poem is followed by two translations of epigrams by Voltaire.
Les Vous et Les Tu (“You,...
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Categories:
gangrened, crush, french, kiss, lost
Form: Free verse
Epigrams V
...Epigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip...
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Categories:
gangrened, giggle, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Epigram
Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Bu...
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Categories:
gangrened, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirteen
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirteen
Oh! Woe! Woe! On pubic islet the dirty deed’s done
Bloodied needle leaves stain the Zen-rock cobbled garden
The derelict torn womb spills seminal fl...
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Categories:
gangrened, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Tropical Thoughts
...Tropical Thoughts
Gangrened toes, vitrified nose
stuffed and starched in puffy clothes
Howling wind biting into my cheek
painful reminder of Dexter’s technique
Cracking boots, frozen bones,
ready...
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Categories:
gangrened, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
The Lap of Control
...He may or may not have campaigned for the elation of destroying a nation,
But he and his friends are certainly responsible for it’s instigation.
Evil conniving …in the name of good, of course,
D...
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Categories:
gangrened, historypeople, may, people,
Form: Rhyme