Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
...The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ascend with me, my American love!
Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!
The Urubamba’s torren...
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Categories:
inundations, america, earth, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse
After a Heavy Rainfall
...Banks did not burst,
just a dribbling bladder of river
leaked into our back yards.
It drooled over damp roots,
seeped into groundhog holes,
into ditches, where winter debris
had already washe...
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Categories:
inundations, poetry,
Form: Free verse
After a Heavy Rainfall
...Banks did not burst,
just a full bladder of river leaking
into our back yards.
It drooled over
the low steps of high roots,
into groundhog holes,
into the ditches where winter debri...
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Categories:
inundations, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jacob Luetweiler 1865-1948
...Jacob Luetweiler
1865-1948
From Highland Illinois I travelled,
Travelled with wife, children and the family bible,
Came with stout brethren and brothers in the faith.
And my far-flung ...
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Categories:
inundations, death,
Form: Epitaph
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - Xxvi
...Unquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-conti...
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Categories:
inundations, power,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Feral Creature Called ''Love''
...crushed, wrecked, and shook
like a ceramic doll I fall
headlong and deep, deep
into the violent stream
of fear--fear that flows, flows
like a hurried river
into the tributaries of my...
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Categories:
inundations, allegory, dark, fear, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Opus Mysticus
...Opus Mysticus
Let us enter... and be silent.
My insanity hangs on the wall with all the other Van Goghs.
Sleeping snugly between semen stained sheets
and saliva creased pillow cases.
Inundations an...
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Categories:
inundations, dark, dark, dark,
Form: Blank verse
Ultra, Venetian Sunsets
...Gondolas thrift contently upon a gentian violet
Thrown from dusky sunsets on a marauding wake
Adopting Venetians transpose as the partake;
Sip mulberry wine to toast the ultraviolet.
Cerul...
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Categories:
inundations, nature, peace, social, urban,
Form: Rhyme