Free Verse Iv
...FREE VERSE VI
Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch
I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!
But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is u...
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Categories:
humidors, freedom, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
This World of Dew
...THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
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Categories:
humidors, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
...Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under th...
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Categories:
humidors, mentor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse