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Sappho TranslationsSappho 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:
brightest, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
brightest, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
brightest, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
brightest, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
brightest, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
I PromiseTo my dearest,
On this day you turn thirteen, officially a teenager! This meaning you are on the very first stage of discovering yourself, your music tastes, your food preferences, your style of clothing and even...
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Categories:
brightest, beautiful, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Rumi Translation: the FieldThe Field
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lazes in such lush grass
the world is too...
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Categories:
brightest, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form:
Epigram
Rumi Translation: BirdsongBirdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!
I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
brightest, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form:
Verse
Thelma Lou - Both Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
brightest, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Longing For the StarsMy mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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Categories:
brightest, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
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Categories:
brightest, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
10 Poems About PoetryBeing a “Poet” Can Be Painful!
I’ve likely told you, more than once, that poetry can be painful, and whined about the need for penning verse
That stems from deep inside my soul...fashions every word...and has become,...
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Categories:
brightest, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
brightest, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
From Seed a Promise, Treasures To Flourish On EarthBlog, On Poetic Contrast, Between Dark And Light
(My two poems composed -one of dark, one of Light.)
(from my new blog)
(1.)
The Horrid Night, The Terrible Nightmare
In a dance of serpents the long fangs drip
poison...
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Categories:
brightest, art, creation, dark, deep, light, meaningful, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
HighbornCAST:
Prince Zag The Freid: Son of King Othor The Freid, younger brother of Prince Zig The Freid
Duke Mor: Close friend of King Othor and an arbiter between father the king and of his son the...
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Categories:
brightest, allegory, character, destiny, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
brightest, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Within the Brightest NightWITHIN THE BRIGHTEST NIGHT (Part 01)
”Life?”
"Are you thinking what I think?" she said, nonchalantly.
”Is this not the place for it, Young Light?”
"My young light." said I.
"Let's go in, then, Young Light." She had other...
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Categories:
brightest, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet and sour coated seeds
I grew free standing expressions and then...
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Categories:
brightest, depression, heart, introspection, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Justice In the Quest For LoveI saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
brightest, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
Transformational CuriosityThat's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
brightest, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
The Divine Messenger-Christmas With Christ Poem Story ContestChristmas With Christ Poem/Story Contest
Sponsor: Isaiah Zerbst
Way before Jesus Christ was born, I was one of a chosen few,
to be a spiritual Being attending to God.
I thought I was really nobody special,
but He...
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Categories:
brightest, baby, celebration, christmas, destiny, eve, god, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Two Hearts One LoveReflections
Though our love nurtured well in passion's fire
Aroused now as a lamplight on life's road
This ember's torch burns still from our desire
With gleams of memories from love bestowed
as we journeyed in wondrous enchantment
I've kissed you...
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Categories:
brightest, life, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Tolerating IntoleranceI cannot tolerate
those who are intolerant,
I cannot stand
those who take a stand
against unknown others
unlike themselves,
much less than we are truly
health and safety seekers
multiculturally alike.
I can tolerate anything
except intolerance,
most certainly including impatience with myself,
not excluding...
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Categories:
brightest, bullying, caregiving, change, growth, happiness, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Living With a MythLiving With A Myth
How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate
...
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Categories:
brightest, society,
Form:
Free verse
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 FinisA Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...
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Categories:
brightest, love,
Form:
Rhyme