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8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go about our...

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Categories: bemoan, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Asked and Answered - An Echo Poem
HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF

People often say to me 
“What can you tell me about yourself” 
guess it’s my duty to explain to them 
and so I look them in the face and reply 

My...

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Categories: bemoan, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reaping Short Terms Benefits
Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.

Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...

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Categories: bemoan, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Trans To Paradigm
What do I project? Some of what I have
Absorbed. Also, that which I have
Reflected upon and have parts of rejected!
I am aware there is a so-called church of
The Devil – I am cognizant of the...

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Categories: bemoan, appreciation, identity, life, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Small Gifts: Contributing To Other's Happiness
For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its...

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Categories: bemoan, giving, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Back To the Future
                           I
On the hill betwixt Carlisle and Deep Creek
...

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Categories: bemoan, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Wonderment at existence mine
Wonderment at existence – mine

a sixty four year old married bloke
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign in general,
and January 13th in particular
who dons online personage
with custom (think 
swiftly tailored harried styled) 
made poetic raiment cloak.

With...

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Categories: bemoan, adventure, age, animal, celebration, character, creation, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Zealous untiring repentance
Zealous untiring repentance

Fleshed out as poetic confessional.

Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.

I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, yours truly did relish
crooning, clowning, and cavorting 
around at Piccadilly Circus
located in Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue
Piccadilly, Covent Street...

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Categories: bemoan, absence, adventure, africa, anger, atheist, body, fun,
Form: Free verse
Wonderment At Existence Mine
Wonderment at existence - mine
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign.

With my scrunched  
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder precise circumstances 
that linkedin yours truly to be born
tracing back lineage of self 
or arbitrary individual...

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Categories: bemoan, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal,
Form: Rhyme
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
I haint donning royal carpet treatment

No stuntman/woman showed up, 
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced 
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet of Perkiomen Valley
Pennsylvania, United States of America
never suffered major illness...

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Categories: bemoan, adventure, allusion, angel, blessing, father, grave, october,
Form: Rhyme
Wonderment At Existence
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
   I often ponder the precise circumstances
   that any thing 2 be born this way
   as a poker face
Tracing back lineage of self or
...

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Categories: bemoan, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration, crazy, fate, imagination,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Who I Am
I wish I could be clearer too
But when a mirror comes to view
I find reflections blur the tons
Of promises I've yet to keep.
The virtues to which I aspire
Just kindling in God's cleansing fire
A testament to...

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Categories: bemoan, life,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translations XI
Sappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 92
translation by Michael R. Burch

“Sappho, if you don’t leave your room,
I swear I’ll never love you again!
Get out of bed, rise and shine on us,
take off your...

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Categories: bemoan, beauty, clothes, flower, god, hair, women, words,
Form: Free verse
Wonderment at existence
Wonderment at existence ™

With my scrunched 
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder 
the precise circumstances 
that any thing to be born
tracing back lineage of self 
or arbitrary individual 
unpredictable as the dow
reckoning a series of...

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Categories: bemoan, adventure, animal, atheist, celebration, change, creation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Song of the Thunders from the Chippewa
Dream Song of the Thunders
Chippewa saying
translation by Michael R. Burch

Sometimes I bemoan my “plight”
when all the while
the wind bears me across the immense sky.


What is life?
The flash of a firefly.
The breath of the winter buffalo.
The...

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Categories: bemoan, dream, native american, song, sound, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Crazy Horse's Naming Vision
Crazy Horse's Naming Vision
by Michael R. Burch

Earthbound,
and yet I now fly
through these clouds that are aimlessly drifting...
so high
that no sound
echoing by
below where the mountains are lifting
the sky
can be heard.

Like a bird,
but not meek,
like a hawk...

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Categories: bemoan, bird, native american, spiritual, storm, violence, visionary,
Form: Verse
Mayan Poetry Translations
Mayan Poetry Translations

The Receiving of the Flower
excerpt from an ancient Mayan love poem
translation by Michael R. Burch

Let us sing overflowing with joy
as we observe the Receiving of the Flower.
The lovely maidens beam;
their hearts leap in...

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Categories: bemoan, america, happiness, love, marriage, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse
Syrian Graveyard
Unnumbered human corpses
mutilated and spread
like illegally-shot elephants in Waza Park!
From ‘man know thyself’
to ‘man hates himself’-
humans mutilate humans!

Future-bound glorious infants,
feeble moms
and luck-abandoned dads
bombed, suffocated, shot and slain
by politico-economic drunks!
Yawning stomachs here,
blood-dripping arms there,
open-mouth frozen heads...

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© Nsah Mala  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bemoan, war,
Form: Verse
The Broken Piggy Bank
The broken piggy bank
strewn into a bajillion little pieces

Unexpected largesse
yours truly patiently waits,
a metaphor of my dire financial straits
courtesy papa's unsuspecting muse
the missus, this wordsmith notates
unwittingly linkedin to his misfortune,
a situation he hates,
especially, an unavoidable...

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Categories: bemoan, america, analogy, anger, animal, appreciation, august, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translation: Eros
SAPPHO TRANSLATIONS

Eros harrows my heart:
wild winds whipping desolate mountains,
uprooting oaks.
—Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch



Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

No droning bee,
nor even the bearer of honey
for me!



Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation...

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Categories: bemoan, desire, longing, love, lust, passion,
Form: Epigram
Soul Transporter
What is Love?, but the transporter of the Spirit
Neither Fair or Foul the Truth of it is that we Fear It

When a woman of young age doth see what she desires
No heed nor helm in...

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Categories: bemoan, allegory, allusion, death, humanity, life, love, remember,
Form: Narrative
I Cherish Every Precious Lock of My Hair As a Keepsake
I cherish every precious lock of my hair as a keepsake

Twas partly on account
of yours truly being incarnation of Samson;
spouse and I wed
please fate, don't say alopecia didst tread;
though atheist to higher power
yours truly pled
heart...

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Categories: bemoan, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, age,
Form: Rhyme
The Piper
THE PIPER                                 ...

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Categories: bemoan, anger, cry, power, prejudice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Long Lost Lover Lament
by Sashi.Prabhu

I cried & cried until my eyes, they dried,
Could not stop and I  cried & cried ,
From my heart I cried in utter despair,
I cried till all was unsure and pain uncompare. 

It...

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Categories: bemoan, lost love, me, heart, pain, heart, me,
Form: Rhyme
In the Realm of Shadows
“Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
                I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
  ...

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Categories: bemoan, bible, religious,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things