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Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“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...
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Categories:
beguile, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“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...
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Categories:
beguile, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic 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:
beguile, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
beguile, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
beguile, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
beguile, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
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:
beguile, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
beguile, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fantastic FlemmingsAs I look back upon a terrific, exciting, and storied career,
I revisit the trove of golden memories, which I hold so dear.
Although some were bad, they have been predominantly sweet;
But the most striking one, still...
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Categories:
beguile, adventure, career, family, fantasy, friendship love, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
Rilke Translations IArchaischer Torso Apollos ("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...
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Categories:
beguile, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
Highland LassieInspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highland roads;
Peerin' from the Highdown, breezin' through the...
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Categories:
beguile, girl, mountains, sea, travel, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Lyric
The Accomplice - Both Audio and TextThis is a very sad tale, indeed. Does anything hurt more than a shattered heart?
You asked me for a story from the days of long ago, of unrequited love…of broken hearts…and love betrayed.
This brings...
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Categories:
beguile, anger, gothic, hurt, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Burning MemoriesCrown of Sonnets
Yesterday's poems now pages turned brown
Lay scattered, torn on the floor of my years
Written long ago with words I wrote down
When the ink was used to quell the heart's fears
These words of my...
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Categories:
beguile, lost love, memory, poems,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
beguile, war,
Form:
Epic
My First French KissesMY FIRST FRENCH KISSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
My first french kiss; I was lanky, skinny, barely fifteen
I had the hots for the popcorn girl, she was eighteen
She made and sold the popcorn at the Strand Theater
Our mutual...
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Categories:
beguile, first love, girl, girlfriend, growing up, kiss,
Form:
Rhyme
SamsonJoyful music filled the village
when mother’s barren womb gave birth.
Born to end Philistine pillage,
and fill sad, anxious hearts with mirth.
No wine or product of the vine,
should pass your palate when you dine.
No razor...
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Categories:
beguile, betrayal, conflict, dark, passion, religion, religious, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Fading QueenA FADING QUEEN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
She had all the feminine gifts those many years ago
Drawing stares from everyone where ever she’d go
Back in high school, she was the center of attraction
In every classroom, she...
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Categories:
beguile, analogy, celebrity, cinderella, heartbreak, loneliness, nostalgia, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
The Raven, Sequel - Part 1Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness.....
i.
Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,
something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,
since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now...
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Categories:
beguile, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part Ii(continued from, "An Epistle Warning against Melancholia: an Allegory--Part I," where somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the...
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Categories:
beguile, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising
“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”
Lavender seduces symmetry
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable
a swollen tangerine sky
moves its tongue over
the blues of her violet harbour
calling the siren...
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Categories:
beguile, muse,
Form:
Romanticism
Distant
"Distant"
When winter came
it came fast
cold as a witch's t*t
unwelcome and
unwanted,
we hesitate
to move
any further within
the forest's interior
alarmed at how
swift the transfiguring
of a season, begins
we think,
now that in...
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Categories:
beguile, muse, symbolism, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Winds of AutumnThe mystical maid of the seasonal change, in summer darns a
Gown of evergreen, with rose petal blossoms of bows, and leaves
Ribbons woven intertwine through thorns and beauty.
In the rush the colder winds blow at natures...
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Categories:
beguile, beauty, blessing, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 33 -Part 2-The Prince grinned at my revelation,
He let go of my hands turning to the walls of the well
He heaved in a deep breath and laughed,
Turning again to me,
With incredulous chuckles
“Ah, yes your God has...
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Categories:
beguile, adventure, beauty, conflict, courage, desire, destiny, endurance,
Form:
Epic
The Hypocrite
The Hypocrite
The Doubter hides behind religious guise,
Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies.
His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile,
Espousing, “Darkness must be exposed by light”, all the while.
Release the...
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Categories:
beguile, anti bullying, bullying, christian, dark, gothic, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Come Talk To MeOh what sorrows have begat thee?
Oh what pain has come upon thee?
Drooping head hanging low
And the billows are moving to and fro
Unkempt hair flying high in the sky
And anxious whiskers are standing by
Your shadows...
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Categories:
beguile, america, beautiful, courage, endurance, friend, heart, judgement,
Form:
Narrative