Beauty Interpretation Poems

Can beauty be interpreted 
Like the King James Version
All the scriptures made correct
All the verses like virgins
Can punctuation be the eyes
With the comma being a...

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Looking for positivity, you've come to the wrong stop...
Take the next one.
I've fallen off the train,
shrouded in darkness,
only light with buzzing moths.
Streets I know too...

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Each picture a story
   or maybe a dream,
A mountain or valley
   one river, one stream.
Whether raining or snowing
   at...

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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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You say the rain makes everything miserable,
You hate the still of the darkness,
You tell me lightning scares you,
You can’t stand the wind ,


I see the...

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I am convinced the stars reflect your eyes,
 Much like the moon does for the burning sun;
 If I'm correct our sun could never die,
...

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made a life grasping at 
straws
(ohwhatdoesitmeanwhat
doesitmeanwhatdoesit
meanwhatdoesitmean?!!),
stripping apart the wonderful
melodies, riffs, curious
vocal stylings, rhythms, poetic
lyrical beats pulsating
throughout, deep bass 
vibrating & hypnotic
drums & percussion,
all to get...

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The radiant sun
Pounds the surface of the earth
Upon the rising of day
Forcing its presence
Onto the green and blue
Allowing the color of day
To be spread upon
The...

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