Long Campion Poems
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Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
campion, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
State of the Art Iv
State of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
campion, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams V
Epigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
campion, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Medieval Poems Iv
Medieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
campion, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Naughty Novelties
NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
This is my translation of a Latin epigram by the English poet Thomas Campion. In Campion’s...
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Categories:
campion, books, extended metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, write,
Form:
Epigram
A Portrait of Robin
Go tell it on the mountain
That – twenty eleven is for Robin!
Once I was on the road to perdition
And my mind was wrought
But then saw I the light
Shinning so bright
And all was right.
Now that...
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Categories:
campion, fantasy, parody, write, write,
Form:
Limerick
Two Kids Remembering
TWO KIDS REMEMBERING
There we were
Next to the railtracks in the middle of the industrial heartland of 1950s Tyneside
Martin and me
Summer’s day and no money and no place to go except...
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Categories:
campion, childhoodday, mum,
Form:
Verse
A Spring Day In Derbyshire Dales
Sit with me a while, here on the soft green grass, that hides the Gentian Violet and the Daisy peeping through and watch how the soft cool wind lifts the fronds of Willow, hanging down...
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Categories:
campion, appreciation, day, england, innocence, may, nature, spring,
Form:
Free verse
For Ophelia
Dappled light plays on a mossy bank
as the tranquil waters of an idle stream
meander dreamlike through summer,
thick with nature's bounty. The only sound
on the pregnant air is the stirring of a
dragonfly's wing as...
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Categories:
campion, emotions, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Day In Arcadia
You leave the car at what was once,
in old reality, a farm and where the
National Trust democratise so now not cows
but parking motorists feel alarm.
Across a road are loos, ex milking parlours
still...
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Categories:
campion, beach, beautiful,
Form:
Verse
Tagboard Media
Tagboard Media
Hizzia Handfull wrestled Diffa Dank Hassinberg
to a twenty...
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Categories:
campion, music, sports,
Form:
Bio
The Hedge
The hedge sat quietly on the side street while people passed by on their daily chores
She bathed in spring and summer so sweet as red roses and campion grew by her side watching and listening...
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Categories:
campion, garden,
Form:
Free verse
Summer Day Walk
Teardrops, petals, ruffles and lace,
on my summer day walk, I slow my pace.
Beautiful, yellow gossamer balls of Dandelion,
white blooms drooping on a growth of Campion.
Underneath a tree grows vivid Periwinkle and Nettle,
and beside a flowing...
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Categories:
campion, flower, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Morning Glory
As dawn undressed the night,
putting the purples of sorrow to flight.
It started to paint an horizon new,
in burnished golds of every hue,
that streaked the heavens and edged each cloud
with fire that danced and billowed proud.
Heralding...
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Categories:
campion, celebration, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Machair
Again the machair blooms. Again these wild
Atlantic shorelines, battered but unbowed
as the marram grass, survive the wayward
blasts of winter, the silver sands endowed
with dancing colour, greeting the splendour
of the budding year. A close bound...
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Categories:
campion, celebration, change, flower, seasons, summer,
Form:
Blank verse
Thomas Campion Translation: Novelties
NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Original Latin text:
IN LIBRARIOS
Impressionum plurium librum laudat
Librarius; scortum nec non minus leno.
Keywords/Tags: Campion, Latin, translation, epigram,...
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Categories:
campion, analogy, books, career, literature, words, write, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Wishing Willows
I knew a place down by the brook
where, in the breeze, the willows shook
and wary hare's in summers haze
would leap and sport among the maize,
startling pheasants into flight
who'd hurdle hedgerows burning bright
with campion and...
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Categories:
campion, childhood, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Life Since Deportation
George's isn't too bad
At least not so far
I like it here better than Campion
And it's much better by far
The only thing missing
Are the extras and the girls
Only tough ones from Alpha
Dare venture into this world
The...
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Categories:
campion, people, school, teen,
Form:
I do not know?
Edmund Campion
In his youth he became an Anglican deacon,
but the doubts about Protestantism beset him
and after further study,
he returned to Catholicism.
Young Jesuit priest,
arrested by priest hunters
in Anglican England
for teaching about the Christ.
He was convicted of...
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Categories:
campion, spiritual, , cute,
Form:
Verse