Iv Poems

Lights on the river IV

Red hourglasses
drawn thin and narrow waisted
sparkling motes fall

BLUE NUDE IV

cut-out
a
simple
 abstract shape
 surfaces
as
 the Blue nude

the
image
triggering
stark sensations

drawn patterns
pasted
pastiche
   enssemblage
        modelled
in
abstraction


   curved
    & sevelte
so blue
so blue

nude
naked
harmony

joy
   &
     calm
in stark
shaped
     intensivity

Love IV

  love's sunbeams gaze
       at golden clouds
      the unruffled, woven 
        aura's walk
     the engraved, hued
    star whispers unflinchingly
  scented dreams  reside 
 on the glittering, bloomy

Flower Chide IV,Scentfold

They all circled Lotus, voices steeped in fret,
Which no bloom or blade had spoken yet.
“She’s not of the ring,” they said without sway,
“And what grows apart should not be asked to stay.”

Lotus did not smirk, nor cast a scroll,
He let their fears complete the role.
Then offered nothing but a phrase like tar:
"Your unity will take

Chinese Translations IV

CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV

These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love. 

Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

A leaf drifts through infinite space,
a cold wind rends distant clouds.
The river flows seaward,
the tide repulses.
Beyond the moonlit reeds,
in unseen villages, I hear
fullers’ mallets
pounding

Necronom IV 1976 H R Giger

the ghost of science, born of blasphemy ~
a fossilized fallacy,
seized from the metallic heart of Mars,
seeks light amidst night-terrors
like an alien sculpted
from artificial accolades,
an embryo stuck in the interstellar state
of becoming,
stitched within radioactive ribs
beneath moonless skies,
when wolves of the eclipsed howl,
filling the illusive air with hypnotic lies,
as if the world chose to recycle
  

Why Your Cities Burn, Part IV

...After a bit her cries died down,
everyone could see she was dead,
a small head hung between her thighs,
mother and son covered in red.
He had seen so much callousness,
but this he just couldn’t believe,
it was after seeing this horror
Gobayth decided to leave.

Of course, it took some time to plan,
in the day the watch was intense,
men along

Lao Tzu: English Translations IV

LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS IV

The Roots of Turbulence
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaviness lies at the root of lightness;
stillness begets turbulence.
Thus the nobleman heads his caravan
keeping a constant eye on his possession-laden wagons.
At night he sleeps secure behind high-walled towers,
undaunted and untroubled.
But how can the ruler of ten thousand chariots
discard the people so

Chinese Poets: English Translations IV

The Song of Magpies
by Lady Ho
translation by Michael R. Burch

The magpies nest on the Southern hill.
You set your nets on the Northern hill.
The magpies escape, soar free.
What good are your nets?

When magpies fly free, in pairs,
why should they envy phoenixes?
Although I’m a lowly woman,
why should I envy the Duke of Sung?


A Song of White Hair
by

Shadows IV

The darkness settles in at 1400 and it is crying
It has deal with pain in a manner that is becoming burdensome
It is tired of all the disappoints and is still crying
Physical pain would be less burdensome

The connection of souls does not come to the lips
HOPE is lost and not in any universe
The constant disappointment has

Conquered, Part IV

...She went with him and she had to, inside a knot of dread,
distracted by all of the things that she feared lay ahead,
disrobed with her mind in a haze, she would not meet his eyes,
complied mechanically when he said, “Now, open your thighs.”
Expected to feel his weight, and the fast beat of his heart,
but Geren

The Dragon Riders Saga IV

The Dragon Riders Saga IV
Suddenly the hot breath if death came searing upon his back
As he turned around the creature ever quickly did attack

Thrown from the cave he turned and arched hard into a dive
Speed he needed in the air to turn sharp enough to survive

His enemy was cold blooded, heartless, and expertly precise
What he

Banned Book Club -IV

“Adults fear their youths who see through hypocrisy and won’t be silenced. Told to stop disrespectful behavior and not to fight ~  though it’s adults who taught them to stand up for what is right”—Poet

There is a book burning
Nine months since the banning of books, 
The politics of fear are rising from minds bent
Into

Clouds and Moon IV

Dappled cloudy scales
Drifting along a sleek flank
Fish eyed moon looks down

Unspoken Affections: Part-IV

your gentle eyes cried a million times
your lips so sweet but red in pain
your face so blue but hides the color gray
the sadness no one knows about you
 
i'll tell you something holding your hand
you have a admirer who cares about you
the cannons that are aimed at your fort
will submerge in the sea before they hit

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