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Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
avoids, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
avoids, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
avoids, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
avoids, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom's Healthy Passion"We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will."
Rumi (M. Mafi,...
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Categories:
avoids, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
PrologueWhether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...
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Categories:
avoids, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Peace Rings TrueSpeak gently when you offer criticism,
but don't be so soft as to sacrifice the truth.
...
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Categories:
avoids, beauty, community, culture, inspiration, peace, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Earthjazz CommonsZeroSum Spirit
bicameral begins
playing through Ego-Eco Me.
Nondual trinitarian bilaterality
of a Mother Scaling Tree
forecasting and shadowing
WinWin
healthy branching
and rooting properties.
Spirit consciousness,
DNA with RNA tribal strings
of multicolored cooperative intelligence.
ZeroSpirit
fractal-seasoned
developing psychology
phylogeny
homology
toward
WiseElder WinWin GoldenRulology.
ZeroAnimated
AcclimatingMundi,
full-mooned Boody
multiregenerational cosmos
where ev'rything grows living out
and fades...
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avoids, addiction, community, health, humor, integrity, music, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
State of ChaosI pray for my friend right now and hope he can find his way and his WHY
STATE OF CHAOS
Your home has a consciousness, it has a mind of its own
You must clear up the clutter,...
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Categories:
avoids, appreciation, beautiful, change, courage, devotion, dream, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Uniting States of WisdomWe have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will.
...
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Categories:
avoids, culture, earth, love, nature, peace, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Of Fate and the Choosing Between Scylla and CharybdisOf Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued Greek Heroes And Mythology Series)
Part Two....
referenced,
*Scylla and Charybdis, *Homer, *Iliad and The Odyssey, *Hades, *Heaven
Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued...
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avoids, art, encouraging, fate, history, humanity, mythology, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
That's What They SayThey say...
Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?
When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.
Walk softly and carry a big stick...
Or walk hard and carry a small...
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Categories:
avoids, america, cheer up,
Form:
Free verse
Feeling Better, Maybe Not BiggerEach sacred RightBrain
is one of many DNA-RNA scripted WiseElders.
RightBrain's first Word for perfectly humane,
energy or nutrition,
depends on exterior or interior perspective,
resonantly compatible with emergent LeftBrain ego-strength
as also Sacred RightBrain EcoFlow
of Energy's Nutrition.
What pre-millennially grew YangPatriarchal
outpaced...
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avoids, destiny, education, health, history, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
The New Seven Deadly SinsI think it's time to do an update
Of The Seven Deadly Sins
Most people do not know them all
Sit down and let's begin
I'm not really religious
But, I think they're a bit stale
So, I think I'll spruce...
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avoids, religion, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
The Scottish Wild Cat Giving Facts of Its LifeI am a big admirer of all large cats, one of my favourites being the Scottish Wild Cat.
It is one of the wildest of all cats and will fight to the death to protect its...
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Categories:
avoids, animal, cat, nature, planet,
Form:
Narrative
The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"
In Theta waves
tumbling to
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes
incarnate falling in
The...
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Categories:
avoids, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey, light, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Darkness In Her DungeonDarkness in Her Dungeon
No morning no bright sun
Just nuns all around
To recite bright light
For my freedom from
Fear and feeling off
But I would despise
In the outside those eyes
A black bundle in swirl
A hostile world looming
All conspiring...
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Categories:
avoids, angst,
Form:
Free verse
With My Dying Breath
* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun.
A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once beautiful but at the same time, taunting. For if these...
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Categories:
avoids, anxiety, fear,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Tao of Healthy Climate CareNursing and nurturing
can often be used synonymously.
To nurse a baby
is first to nurture a cherished infant.
They share a nutritional history
of healthcare giving
and receiving,
delivered best and most durably
when care works coincidentally both ways
in all Win-Win bilateral...
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Categories:
avoids, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Angelus Silesius the Mystical AngelAngelus Silesius Translations
The rose merely blossoms
and never asks why:
heedless of her beauty,
careless of every eye.
?Angelus Silesius, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
The rose lack reasons
and merely sways with the seasons;
she has no ego
but whoever put...
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Categories:
avoids, angel, bible, christian, devotion, god, religion, religious,
Form:
Epigram
The Night and the Aftermathsomething was taken from her
hacked away from her innards
leaving debris and deadly tatters behind
the ringing sounds throughout her head
the alarm that first alerted her
that she is already dying from the inside out
heart...
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Categories:
avoids, allusion, anxiety, depression, pain, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
seas of love -
ages ...
years flow between us
as two oceans of the world we spin upon
yet, just as the earthly abyss
...
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Categories:
avoids, age, metaphor, passion, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Souper NovaNow listen,
you called me a Souper nova missing the pun,
being clever with words ain’t for everyone,
you comment mindless and tough
I laugh cus you're a spineless pup
do you ever think.. umm..
no you...
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Categories:
avoids, slam,
Form:
Rhyme
Odysseus and the Siren
"Odysseus and The Siren"
There he is
like Odysseus
bound to the mast of his ship
cursive words dispatched
through aether to
the somnolent nodding
in their stock
he avoids full brace
the Siren’s enchantment
a song that sings
his...
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Categories:
avoids, for her, for him, freedom, imagery, muse,
Form:
Romanticism
When the Guns Go SilentGod cannot intervene in sovereignty
and the boy will plead no innocence.
Seedlings cannot control the wind,
in birth the Oak has called their name
a command from the forest unseen.
A biblical sandstorm...
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Categories:
avoids, world war i,
Form:
Free verse