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Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
bc, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
bc, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
bc, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
bc, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Gilgamesh
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Uruk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out Gilgamesh, without any further ado...
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Categories:
bc, adventure, best friend, brother, character, death of
Form:
Epic
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
bc, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
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:
bc, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
bc, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Chinese Translations I
Chinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...
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Categories:
bc, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
bc, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
bc, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...
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Categories:
bc, horse,
Form:
Narrative
No Title
I have slept but I have not slept
I have not slept but I have slept
For the first time in two years
I slept without a word of care
No codes, no crossroads
No railroads, no shiploads
No lizards no...
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Categories:
bc, america, betrayal, character, emotions, environment, food, gender,
Form:
Narrative
A Museum Ap-Art
I'd risen from my bed quite early, in the pale silent sunshine,
And I thought to have a day out, and not waste summer's prime.
The world still was sleeping, but the bluebirds sang a tune,
And blooms...
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Categories:
bc, adventure, art, beauty, color, fantasy, imagery, summer,
Form:
Couplet
The Warlord Wars No More -4
We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to Egypt,
also, the body of Captain Crastinus has been laid on...
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Categories:
bc, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Mystery of the Necklace
Sitting on the beach,
As dusk falls upon the end of shore,
I look at the lighthouse,
As I see a faint figure,
Looking beyond the sea.
She holds her chest,
As if she is holding a necklace.
She waits for her...
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Categories:
bc, fantasy, inspirational, longing, love, mythology, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom the Conclusion
BEING ABLE TO SEE
MY OWN ENERGY,
MY OWN FREQUENCY
FROM INSIDE OUT
AND OUTSIDE IN
AT THE SAME TIME,
FELT AND SEEMED NORMAL.
I COULD FEEL THE ENERGY.
I WAS THE ENERGY.
I AM THE ENERGY, THE FREQUENCY.
I AM WHOLE,...
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Categories:
bc, identity, imagery, imagination, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Earth's Oldest Love Poem
The Love Song Of Shu-Sin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Darling of my heart, my belovéd,
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey.
Darling of my heart, my belovéd,
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey....
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Categories:
bc, desire, love, lust, sin, song, wedding, wife,
Form:
Verse
Ode To African Child
Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal
Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beauty of nature and life
The belike of Bowie...
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Categories:
bc, africa, baby, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
King Cyrus the Great
KING CYRUS THE GREAT
So; here comes the story of that King Cyrus the Great
Whose history for some of us is still well up for debate
But; it’s such a darn good story, it well deserves...
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Categories:
bc, history, leadership, literature, word play,
Form:
Epic
The Invention of Zero
Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
No universe
no black hole
no zodiac
no hero
no mission, no...
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Categories:
bc, father, future, home, hope, math, morning, wind,
Form:
Verse
Cleopatras Palace a True Narrative
Alexandria, Egypt is well known for being the city where Cleopatra once ruled her people and both she and her famous lover, Mark Anthony met their final, tragic fates. It is where the "Pharos...
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Categories:
bc, allah, arabic, culture, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Spirits In the Wood
Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...
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Categories:
bc, death, earth, fantasy, sin, sound, spiritual, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Our Greek Getaway
Dear friiends those who first read my poem i left an important line out in the donkey story
The first dance after our wedding,
Was absolutely exciting, intoxicating,
My darling whispered in my ear,
My wedding present to you...
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Categories:
bc, beach,
Form:
Narrative
Dreams of the Battle of Thymbra, Lydian Persian War
Dreams of The Battle of Thymbra, Lydian-Persian War
In the midst of a battle I awoke thrown
walking over the crimson red dead.
Found and drew the shaft from solid stone
standing on soil blood soaked in red!
My heart...
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Categories:
bc, conflict, death, history, imagery, military, sorrow, war,
Form:
Narrative