Long Ali Poems
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Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
ali, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
ali, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
EnoneoneI’m A “Street Fighter”
You see the “Wings” CHUN
LI
“BRUCE WAYNE”
“LEROY”
“LU”
KAME
“THE LAST DRAGON BREATHS”
You don’t want “NUN”-CHUCK
NORE IS ANY ENTITY
Check my IP MAN
my Impulse
“Ki”
I’m the “1ONE” Fearless
Jackie’s First Strike “Unleashed”
In a...
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Categories:
ali, art, courage, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
ali, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a...
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Categories:
ali, dream,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Poem For Sam CookeDecember 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"
And Sam said, "What happened
Where...
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Categories:
ali, america, celebrity, devotion, music, sorrow, sympathy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
It's a Mad World- In a Lancashire AccentIT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.
I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain.
The assistant behind the counter had shiny...
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Categories:
ali, crazy, food, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, life,
Form:
Free verse
NedaNeda
You died in protest in Iran. ...
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Categories:
ali, abuse, appreciation, death, dedication, faith, freedom, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Thank YouThank You!...
It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate,
all the hues of brown that made our nation great!
From Fredrick and Harriet to Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, because of the stance they took,...
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Categories:
ali, america, celebration, culture, humanity, leadership, pride, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
3Waiting waitng......
For the all-mighty godot
godot godot.....I ask myself
Where are you?
I have searched the
tempestuous seas
I have toiled the arid desert
All to no avail
I have defiled timidity into the...
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Categories:
ali, anger
Form:
Didactic
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
ali, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part1Whoever might with just free words beside
Speak of the blood and in full too of sores
Which I saw now, with a narration wide?
Any speech will sure fail to open doors
To our sermon and for the...
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Categories:
ali, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
BurnBurn
by Michael R. Burch
for Trump
Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.
Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.
Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet, climate, pollution,...
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Categories:
ali, earth, environment, fire, future, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum
Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum
In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines
To witness two modern boxing Gladiators
Their prowess, stature, about to be seen
This will be the third between the WBC, WBA
Stepping into the...
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Categories:
ali, character, history, men, places, sports, usa, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Hero For a MomentUs kids on the scrap heap estate, we were never going anywhere
poverty deprivation criminal activity was here to stay
Social Services, poor bastards, had no idea what to do
no, no one had a blasted clue
then, some...
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Categories:
ali, death, grave,
Form:
Free verse
My Pen Is LoadedMy pen is loaded and I'm not taking any prisoners
I've been held hostage by depression for too long, so I'm sorry for not having many visitors
I've been going through it, and have spent many...
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Categories:
ali, depression, emotions, encouraging, fun, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Bullfrog and a ButterflyA bullfrog and a butterfly both chanced upon each other.
‘My dear, you are an ugly beast!’ the bullfrog dared to utter.
‘Why froggy,’ gasped the butterfly, astounded by his words.
‘My beauty is unparallel while yours...
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Categories:
ali, children, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, muse, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
Una Nave Parte-A Ship DepartsUna donna rattristita e velata dal pianto,
guarda verso un mare
piu' squallido di questo invernile mattino:
rimpiangendo i pensieri dolci
cullati dalla nostalgia di ieri
che non sara' facile dimenticare!
Una nave parte,
si ode il suo rombo...
si infrancono
onde tempestose
sulla...
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Categories:
ali, bird, boat, longing, pain, sad love, sea,
Form:
Free verse
A Moffett RapDon't mess with me I'm an the epiphany
I'm about to sneeze, I ain't no sleeves
Better watch it
Yo, yourself check
yourself relinquished yourself
wrecked yourself
to be built I'm blessed
admitting it or not I'll...
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Categories:
ali, 6th grade, allusion, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Requiem For An Unknown Tigress Cubstill the climbing green lianoid lass
her tender tendrils torn
massive metal lying like a cutlass
in her lap forlorn
...
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Categories:
ali, childhood, daughter, mother, war, green,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Dancers - XxiiiUnquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII
Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral waves dashing on the beaches of their consciousness.
The only unlicensed...
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Categories:
ali, body, dance, joy, music, senses, sensual, uplifting,
Form:
Epigram
IragI hate my life
My souls are damaged it’s full of pure hell that I can’t take it back it’s like listening to that awful country depression music that you can’t stand and you just...
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Categories:
ali, death, murder, soldier, sorrow, violence, drug,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Am I the Assassin Or the UndertakerAm I the Assassin
or the Undertaker
For Palani...
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Categories:
ali, death, grief, morning,
Form:
Elegy
Best Sports Poems IiThese are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden...
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Categories:
ali, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Best Sports Poems By Michael R BurchAli’s Song
by Michael R. Burch
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river, child.
I flung...
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Categories:
ali, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, golf, sports,
Form:
Rhyme