Long Calf Poems
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Native American Translations
Native American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
calf, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
calf, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
In the Wild
IN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
calf, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Wild Re Post
IN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
calf, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Gilgamesh
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Uruk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out Gilgamesh, without any further ado...
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Categories:
calf, adventure, best friend, brother, character, death of
Form:
Epic
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
calf, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Gadflies and Honeybees
Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?
Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
These are expansive gadfly questions,
problems,
issues of complexly dipolar reason,
leftbrain dominant
either-or thinking
we are either thinking or...
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Categories:
calf, culture, earth, green, health, integrity, political, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
I’m just Saying
So yall, here are some sayings. Some are from wayyyy back in the day, I’m talking ‘bout the 70’s up to current, and they all have meanings. Many of you may have heard them and...
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Categories:
calf, culture, education, environment, language, life, people, word
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67
The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf. He said nothing, he never spoke....
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Categories:
calf, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Burning Truth Steps Forward
Something that stuns me from revelations awakening
All good people of the world see you Isis
clearly diamond cut your scale tips heavy
with the wealth that's stolen from foreign lands
to build weapons of...
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Categories:
calf, abortion, addiction, allusion, betrayal, child abuse, creation,
Form:
Verse
Church Bulletin For Today
Venite
Come let us sing to the Lord;*
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving*
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
For the Lord is...
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Categories:
calf, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Mating of the Rich and Famous
I once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating,
or trust-I would have been rightly confused
Here hangs a long line of slime, almost...
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Categories:
calf, animal, beauty, cat, dance, love, nature,
Form:
Prose
Three Ways of Swiping the World Cup
THREE WAYS of Swiping the World Cup
"It is sweet and fitting/glorious to lay your life down for your country » - from a poem by HORACE
(See my story selected to represent France in the 2006...
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Categories:
calf, football, games, humor, sports, stress, woman, women,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Disobedient Prophet
Once a prophet who is now anonymous in name,
conveyed the Lord’s word, but later brought himself much shame.
If not disobedient, he might have won some fame.
He fell as prey to another man’s mendacious claim.
Ten of...
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Categories:
calf, bible, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring's Kindness - a Collaboration With Regina Mcintosh
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal
lavender lilacs...
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Categories:
calf, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, joy, nature, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Deception Part 1 Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from Rabindranath Tagore's (Nobel-laureate Poet From India in 1913) narrative poem - Phanki. We need to remember that this story is based on life at late nineteenth century Bengal, India. The...
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Categories:
calf, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
The Last Thoughts of a Fallen Champion
THE LAST THOUGHTS OF A FALLEN CHAMPION
This one time I know I was caught below the belt
No doubt I got it wrong and I'm far from my best
My last chilling and coin now I've...
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Categories:
calf, death, desire, fate, history, memory, remember,
Form:
ABC
4:32am
She stirs first..restless..looking longingly over..senses awakened.
Their feet shuffle slowly under warm covers. The moonlight shines thru the window catching her face. .illuminating it…her tousled hair frames her face.
She looks up, hopefully for his eyes to...
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Categories:
calf, passion,
Form:
ABC
Glory Unto Jesus
Glory unto His written word
That brings forth light
To shine on darkness
And create light within
that was in darkness
They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the That was the...
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Categories:
calf, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Crazy Horse Monument
Crazy Horse Monument
Up there! On the Black Hills Mountain, 1
A work in progress sculptured in granite,
Of a stern faced warrior, strong and determined, 2
Unadorned in a war bonnet, with his hair flowing in the wind,
And...
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Categories:
calf, america, education, history, native american, tribute, usa,
Form:
Verse
Spring's Kindness
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal
lavender lilacs...
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Categories:
calf, appreciation, inspiration, spring,
Form:
Free verse
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours truly
(an aspiring wordsmith) vamoose!
Hey diddle diddle the...
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Categories:
calf, 12th grade, adventure, age, animal, bird, color,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tribute To My Dog
"Who can bear to lose a tie
With a dog that is man’s best ally? .......by poet
"Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel
unable to wag his tail as he always did.
yesterday when I saw him,...
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Categories:
calf, angst, animal, death, dog,
Form:
Free verse
In the Red Desert of the Rising Sun
In the red desert of the rising sun
In the surrealness of its silence
The sky turned grey and ominous
Amidst the blackened rain
As the suns fell into...
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Categories:
calf,
Form:
ABC
A Day For a Lifetime
Driving my car across the country, numerous years ago, going to a new place,
Changing who I’d know
A loud bang broke the boredom and...
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Categories:
calf, adventure, anxiety, food, memory, romance, travel, true
Form:
Ballad