Long Asylum 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:
asylum, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Doggerel IiDoggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
asylum, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
asylum, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic 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:
asylum, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
asylum, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Once a Pawn a Time Within Castellated BishopricOnce a pawn a time within castellated bishopric
We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand twenty three
witnessed greatest amount of money
I spent at one time.
The following day...
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Categories:
asylum, appreciation, april, bible, black love, dark, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Ecopolitics of Dna-ReproductivityImagine with me that A regenerates Adenine,
B reproduces ConVex-Yang Uracil or Thymine,
depending on whether you are a plant or a person,
C bilaterally represents EchoConCave-Yin(Yin) Cytosine,
and D is for full-interelational fractal-view Guanine,
which acts strangely Dopamine...
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Categories:
asylum, america, health, humanity, humor, metaphor, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Up and About, Feeling EmptyI feel rather empty…
Flushed, confused, free me?
I’m feeling kinda dirty
To be honest, I’m fake happy
Wearing a smile like the rest of us
But, there’s a million rivers and fires between us
So, don’t throw me under the...
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Categories:
asylum, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
asylum, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
The WallWinnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
walled in where she does...
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Categories:
asylum, birthday, character, child, child abuse, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Afflictions and Perspectivesfoisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier
it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire
of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket
her eyes wide upon pupils dilated...
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Categories:
asylum, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
asylum, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes"
that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man
pass him by -
he has angel eyes
that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light
the entire transparent
padded room parade
dance cards lit
he’s biding...
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Categories:
asylum, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Mat Pokora's Je Suis Tombe By T WignesanTranslation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan
(NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French original herebelow) of this lilting catchy tune not just because...
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Categories:
asylum, french, happiness, love, love hurts, romantic love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
asylum, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter as interpreted by oneEaster as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devoutly religious
man, woman, or child,
when the most important
Christian holiday notated,...
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Categories:
asylum, adventure, bible, celebration, christian, easter, family, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Tyranny Counts the Ballots“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
asylum, political,
Form:
Rhyme
A healthy dose of invective flourishes at Highland Manor asylumA healthy dose of invective flourishes at Highland Manor asylum
I hate to be curt,
but welcome to the monkey house
at 2 highland manor drive,
where all manner of imbeciles go berserk.
I and the missus
(thee unfortunate recipient
of poisonous...
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Categories:
asylum, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, bullying, conflict, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glistens wet
in the spoilt lies of...
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Categories:
asylum, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Organic GratitudeEastern stars light our responsibility
to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other.
Western horizons speak not of suffering
much less death as inevitable failure.
Dark horizons speak of pain,
and how to avoid it through Other as ourselves.
Eastern lights speak...
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Categories:
asylum, birth, blessing, culture, health, power, sad love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
South Africa 2019A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams
In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion
The constitution hallucinates as night settles scores of deceit
Bereavement takes its toll in anger...
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Categories:
asylum, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Human MindWhy do i miss you so much when i havent met you face to face.Can i really wait a year to see you ... when .. youre all i want and think about right now...
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Categories:
asylum, absence, anger, anxiety, child abuse, lost, storm,
Form:
Lyric
I Ain'T a Game To Play With - Chapter 1 - Betrayal Snipped Heart Strings- Written August 11, 2018
Exhausted, you're playing as a suicidal victim once more
Confusion sucked me dry all the more to the deep core
Thaw me like frozen ground beef…
Give me some microwaving relief
Hate the actions you make...
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Categories:
asylum, love hurts, lust, men, moving on, strength,
Form:
Free verse
What Fascinates Meart inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me!
...
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Categories:
asylum, art, sky, stars,
Form:
Ekphrasis
The 80s RevisitedThe General Blues
c.1984-5
Again and again searching through grains of sand
hoping to find that certain elixir,
recovering lost bottle caps,
when the silicon appears, i lose it..
To the ones who don't want or need it,
I feel...
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Categories:
asylum, fantasy, loss, philosophy,
Form:
Bio