Pablo Neruda in English Translations including 'Religion in the East'
...These are English translations of Spanish poems by Pablo Neruda.
Religión en el Este (“Religion in the East”)
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
for Tom Merrill
I realized in...
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Categories:
implements, death, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Truth
...When the mouth
says one thing
and the brain
implements actions
that changes the outcome
then the brain is the truth....
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Categories:
implements, 9th grade, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Eye Blood You Barb
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Stiletto stare, wicked, wild hair, barbwire takes me there
Daggers, switchblades, and razorblades
Wait did I not mention hand grenades
My apologies in Spades
Take me fast, love me hard, you are...
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Categories:
implements, angst, anxiety, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Involved
...Get involved in a project
And the hours just slip away.
Before you know it, dusk arrives
To zipper up the day.
No matter what you work on,
Using implements or brains,
The progress that you ma...
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Categories:
implements, work,
Form: Rhyme
America at a critical political crossroads
...America at a critical political crossroads...,
nevertheless hope springs eternal,
especially after listening
to Vice President Kamala Harris
and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
speak at the The Li...
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Categories:
implements, abuse, america, angst, august,
Form: Rhyme
Convalescence of Richard McGeehan
...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan
Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to ...
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Categories:
implements, absence, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Easter Eggs
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Remember when grandma would boil the eggs?
There were no fancy color kits to buy.
She used crushed berries for the royals, purple and blue,
tea or coffee for sunny shades of yellow and orange,...
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Categories:
implements, childhood, children, environment, food,
Form: Haibun
Saturday, September 23, 2023
...Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn E...
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Categories:
implements, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Words
...They are incantations,
holders of truth and lie,
they can be imprecations for bad or sly,
they are hammers that forge our lives,
implements which are sharp as knives,
mastering them may seem nig...
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Categories:
implements, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hierarchical Paradigm of the Amish Community
...Hierarchical paradigm of the Amish community
After reading the novel titled
Broken English by Paul L Gaus...
accentuating, exhibiting, incorporating...
the Amish, whose long history of farmin...
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Categories:
implements, adventure, america, animal, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
That Is How the Cookie Crumbles
...The baker had a busy day,
Making pies, cakes and bread
He was hot and bothered
And was looking forward
To rest his weary head.
He made some gingerbread men
And put them on a tray
He switched o...
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Categories:
implements, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Losing You Again
...They tell me: clean all the closets --
give away clothes, things you'll never use--
toss it all, decorate anew -- but,
must I part with what you
touched -- what you gave life
by using, by clea...
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Categories:
implements, absence, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Auction On a Windy Hill
...Beneath billowing sack cloth tent
An auctioneer jibber-jabbers his words.
Below his red mahogany dais
Sit Fifty Amish American women and girls.
Black-bonnet-ed, bidder-number in hand,
they chi...
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Categories:
implements, age, america, appreciation, bible,
Form: Narrative
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality
...Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality
Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
regarding countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a c...
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Categories:
implements, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Fading Life
...Her skin had become the canvas for the unmarked pain
The color of red dripping across her wrists covering that of a tears stain
Losing sight of everything she has lived for
Standing there kno...
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Categories:
implements, anger, anxiety, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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