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Sappho Translations

Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch 

She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...

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Categories: awed, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form: Epigram

Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations

The first soft snow: 
leaves of the awed jonquil 
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

Come, investigate loneliness! 
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...

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Categories: awed, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku

Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii

Dusk-gliding swallow, 
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers! 
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

That dying cricket,...

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Categories: awed, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form: Haiku

My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii

My most popular poems on the Internet (II)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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Categories: awed, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall

Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer

Eden
by Michael R. Burch

Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...



Outcasts
by...

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Categories: awed, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form: Free verse

Ancient Haiku

These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...

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Categories: awed, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form: Haiku

Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch

The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...

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Categories: awed, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form: Haiku

Bodhisattva Tease

Do you share my concern 
that your happiness and healthy life 
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?

No! Why? Do you know something I should know?

Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive 
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...

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Categories: awed, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Rilke Translations Ii

Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...

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Categories: awed, tribute,
Form: Verse

Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation

Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...

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Categories: awed, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form: Sonnet

Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther

The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...

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Categories: awed, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Sonnet

Song of Amergin: Translation

The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations

The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...

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Categories: awed, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form: Free verse

My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood Memory

My auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
    I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
       I...

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Categories: awed, angel, childhood, love,
Form: Free verse

Echoes of the Angel's Fallen

Invocation to the Muse

From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly, 
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...

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Categories: awed, allegory, angel, christian,
Form: Epic

Apocalyptic Poems I

These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...



The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch

“Dust to dust ...”

I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...

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Categories: awed, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Chapter 109 -- Damian Dj Damali Cj Desharah Amadeus

Date:   April  2046

In Damian's mansion the twins
Justin and Jordan were preparing 
To celebrate their 15th birthday.
Damian and his older brother 
Carter Junior were talking in the 
Dining room. CJ said, I bought...

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Categories: awed, brother, confidence, devotion,
Form: Alliteration

Almighty God - the Lune Style

~ Almighty   God  ~
( The Lune )




Almighty  God   the   Lord
Created     All
He  made  you  and  me

~0~

Gods  Blessings  Countless
Measureless
His...

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Categories: awed, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation

This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...

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Categories: awed, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form: Free verse

Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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Categories: awed, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Sonnet

Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise Restaurant

Date:  September  2050

Damian stood at the front door 
Ushering everybody out to the waiting 
Limousine. "Come on my People 
Be quick about it wifies!"  Sidney
And Saderi were willing to go along
For the...

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Categories: awed, best friend, birth, husband,
Form: Alliteration

Where is the Shining City on a Hill?

Where is the shining city upon a hill?                           ...

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Categories: awed, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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: awed, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse

Chapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: Congregations

Damian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too. 
There were two large tables 
The capacity was almost 
Immeasurable....

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Categories: awed, abuse, confidence,
Form: Alliteration

Keep In Mind - the Choka Style

~Keep In Mind ~
( Choka )



God really loves man
He has for you a great plan
You're special in every way
He loves you each day
Remember He died for you
Jesus did and that's so true

~0~

God created all men
Created...

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