Long Bounty Poems
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Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
bounty, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
bounty, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Climates of Ballistic ManagementSenator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at this point in time,
although he is making no commitments about...
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Categories:
bounty, destiny, earth, health, humor, peace, political, true
Form:
Prose Poetry
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:
bounty, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Paul and Sarah - Part TwoConditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
bounty, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy most popular poems on the Internet (I)
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:
bounty, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
bounty, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
bounty, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
2 Versions of 4 SeasonsThese 2 different versions are separated by nine years
Part 1
MUST BE SPRING
Small speckles of wild grass
Looking like tiny green drops
That had fallen to the earth
Were the very first sign
Waving in the...
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Categories:
bounty, lost love, seasons, time,
Form:
Prose
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
bounty, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS 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:
bounty, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Ghost HunterI don't see you.
I've been searching my whole life,
But still, I don't see you.
When I was a wee lad
I looked for you ...
My mother's smile,
My father's toil,
My brother's refuge,
My sister's amity ...
I didn't see you.
Thanksgiving,...
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Categories:
bounty, philosophy, religion, self,
Form:
Free verse
Uncle EldonUNCLE ELDON
Now that I am old, I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....
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Categories:
bounty, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
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:
bounty, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Seeking the Boundaries of Love's Depths and Her HandPoem One: Inspired by my reading of -Lady Labyrinth's---magnificent
poem , "Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"
(1.) Poem One
Seeking The Boundaries Of Love's Depths And Her Hand
The air, its surging breath sings
into the...
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Categories:
bounty, appreciation, art, beauty, dedication, love, passion, poetry,
Form:
Romanticism
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
bounty, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Temporal incarnation of AphroditeTemporal incarnation of Aphrodite...
induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante delicto.
After reading about
Greek goddess of love
fancy notion woke whereof
warmth suffused me
snug as...
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Categories:
bounty, absence, adventure, angel, april, beautiful, blessing, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Make Love To Me In That Ancient PlaceThe Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
bounty, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
Boob Jobs and Bomb JobsBoob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
bounty, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Parts Two and Three Honoring Elizabeth Barrett Browning(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts
Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!
As sun retreats and...
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Categories:
bounty, appreciation, art, creation, poetry, poets, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ice Cream Gran 8 - Journey To the Centre of the OeufGran glared at the general. ‘So tell me where we’re at
What’s a chicken got to do with me and Nitro Cat?’
‘That chicken,’ said the general, ‘has laid a special egg
It’s got a micro chip in...
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Categories:
bounty, fantasy, grandmother, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Dr Fuller's Unitarian CommunityLet's start with one shared understanding:
life is a more dynamically relational synonym for "nature".
So when we ask,
What is the purpose of life?
we are also asking,
What is nature's purpose?
which sounds similar to asking if evolution is...
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Categories:
bounty, anger, death, destiny, fear, life, nature, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
A British Diary Passing MilleniumThe ask of cultures.
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They decided the...
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Categories:
bounty, culture, time, travel, true love, trust, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Immutable Beliefs Upholding My BeingThis Current Life of Mine
Created by the Supreme Almighty for His pleasure, I bear His image with body, soul, and spirit --- fashioned through His...
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Categories:
bounty, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus*****************************************
The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )
Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
teeming in the angry hordes they may,
forget to pay...
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Categories:
bounty, art, corruption, creation, imagination, mythology, symbolism, war,
Form:
Classicism