Long Caesura Poems

I Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have labored sore / and suffered death, 
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...

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RHYME SCHEME abcb

Thick mist / sharp rocks cut
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast drought / weak build folds
Trade boon / graft wrecks ships

RHYME SCHEME aaba

Thick mist / sharp rock strips
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast...

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1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / mind fug stills

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Written: March 07, 2024

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As I gaze up at the sky,
A vision appears...

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These things are passing
temporary in their afflictions of
to be dealt with in problematical
or carried a brick of sacks
slung this weight upon the back
to weigh a feathers heart
against solutions search

These things are transient
present in busy most...

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Dawn song / sweet trills / thin flute roused
Splayed light / warm vibe / worn slats doused
Dream haunts / harsh cough / plumb tears smart
Heart touched / mixed thoughts / frail past frouse

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Jueju is a...

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HAIKU is the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese'& in reality uses '17 'onji' (sound symbols)rather than syllables ,&traditionally written in Japanese as a single line

whereas

HIKU is the English language tristich (three line) version(including translations)with similar...

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BORN ANEW

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Note:
Hiku After style of ee cummings,VERTICAL form as used in the Haiga (combined art-poetry)

HAIKU is the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese'& in reality uses '17 'onji' (sound symbols)rather than syllables traditionally written in Japanese...

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Sunflowers with a majestic gold crown
The blue-purple of the evening sky
The white clouds with a sunbeam inside
Flow - sweet river onwards
To a place that can't be found 
on any map - directions scattered
Suddenly now -...

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Winter finally moves his lumpen sluggish weight,

Spring is like a shy dryad shivering in his arms

Wind's whippets droop to trifling whine

Sullen rain hisses to a grizzle.

tiny fruit buds swell enough to moisten lips.

First daffodil maidens...

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My sleep stages are Moon phases combing
my limbic system, where I touch electric chords 
singing my survival.

The words I compose dwell in privacy.
I blow the candles out after they are written.
And they wait, poised to...

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Voyagers, convene thyselves to return, among us...
Caesura, crown nigh clod, a sylph unwept,
elision thy silhouette, meno thy minuet...
Thine late occurence on thee, wake of cerise sand

Thou belief, like a billow, upon your whitish cheek,
'Twas marina...

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Dear Alliteration, 
First friend, foremost;
Forgetting not,
Shy Allegory, 
Dressed in Allusion; 
Sweet Anaphora, 
How I need thee! 
How I need thee!
 
And Assonance; 
Never deep asleep, 
Nor rest Refrained, 
By Caesura; 
Clever Chiasmus; 
Who has pause...

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SEPTEMBER SONG - triple tanka

Like a lover's sigh
She tiptoes forth    looking back -
Those warm memories -
Birds    still singing    cross over
And sad sunshine stills the wind

Now ...

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Entering into a town called, Nain; noticing this funeral procession passing by
A widow and her only son having compassion, Heaven's Messiah: caesura ? Eyes
Towards celestial's holy skies; reaching, as touching Love's throne; their Angel pours
Bohemian's...

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In lengthening slumberous reposes lies
Dickens' sterling pen under bluish skies; 
And through them gloats deathless sun,
Taunting all that under his embers burn. 

No more savoring of Oliver’s twisty trials
In doleful dints and extra-nuanced miles;
Nor shall...

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A theater of blood be my necklace
A theater of bosom me own thirst it  quail thy credit, a critic Julius the rat Caesura
Be it brow a common line yet me pardon tis greatly. Be...

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How
beautiful...............an image
suddenly...............conceived
an instant..............thought
following...............a terminal
caesura.................pause
hesitation..............or dislocation
of attention...........written
read by.................a seeing eye
or said
aloud

Columnar style after Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet.
Turnbull  created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than...

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Fallen boys with white crosses,
your nightmares now peaceful dreams.
Gone the shrapnel, the bullets,
trenches of blood crimson streams.

To earth, condemned, fears of men,
fertile ashes to brave dust.
Rouse from warm brotherly beds,
dear sirs remind us you must.

Listen!...

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The goal of a poem: its intrinsic I.D.
is grab folk: to show them; to imbue imagery –
to say something profound and to then sculpt the words
 into a form that’s sound and is pleasantly heard.

Note...

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Would the world still stand firm and strong
Against the force of quake and storm
That threaten to fiercely perform
Their dreadful might that goes along
With the wind of man’s fault and wrong?

Would disasters make man’s knees bend
To...

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the genius of hi-ku with an economy of words to paint a multi-tiered painting, without "telling all". to show rather than tell conforming to the key to true imagist poetry,a subtle difference ,to avoid ,like...

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DEBUSSY – AFTERNOON OF A FAWN

On the summer meadow
A creature so beautiful
Blending with nature’s wild inconstancy

In the quiet he can sense a kind of distant music
And, balancing on shaky legs, head cocked,
Listens

What heard?
What seen?

It is...

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Boundless love lets its own life stay
Everlasting day after day;
Remaining in its timeless way.
Never will it stop nor delay;
Always giving joy to the gray!

Dateless love lets its own heart beat
Infinitely in rhyme so sweet.
Zone of...

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