Long Cervantes Poems
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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
cervantes, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
cervantes, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...
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Categories:
cervantes, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
cervantes, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Hay Un Dia Feliz By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
To come by a happy day
(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...
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Categories:
cervantes, childhood, family, father, feelings, music, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form:
Quatrain
Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - Xxi
Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI
The pupil, the bitch and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days, teachers were born to the métier like poets; today softwares...
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Categories:
cervantes, children, humor, parents, student, teacher,
Form:
Epigram
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxii Part Two
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, Sereno and the Hausgast –XXXii Part Two
The duties of the Housekeeper in the U.K. par rapport au Portero in Spain or the Gardienne in France is that...
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Categories:
cervantes, dedication, destiny, devotion, good night, loneliness, prison,
Form:
Sonnet
Lorca Translations Iii
Lorca Translations III
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War and his body was never found.
Paisaje (“Landscape”)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
translation by Michael R....
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Categories:
cervantes, bird, dark, death, light, rain, river, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under the bridge
for me to believe
there’s just one acceptable path.
In poetry everything’s permitted.
Originally published...
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Categories:
cervantes, mentor, poems, poetry, poets, spanish, teacher, youth,
Form:
Free verse
The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels
Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry,
With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples,
When now a country honors not classical bards:
O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarch, Ono No Komachi, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Browning,...
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Categories:
cervantes, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions, in memoriam, remember,
Form:
Ode
New York
Each single morning on my way to work
I fantasize what happens in New York
If I were to spend a long weekend there.
I'd ask you out of the blue, not despair.
Once passionate lovers, can we be...
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Categories:
cervantes, adventure, fantasy, love, lust, new york,
Form:
Rhyme
If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:Lxxxiv
If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI
[Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.]
If ever I had to...
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Categories:
cervantes, america, child abuse,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sympathy For Cervantes
When I was a child along with my cousins we listen to heroic tales about our ancestors and in someway the mill was always mentioned. So we went to discover these EPIC Historic site. A...
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Categories:
cervantes, childhood, family, friendship, mountains,
Form:
Prose
If You Think You'Re the Only One
IF YOU THINK YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE…
“A quiet and modest life,” says he in German, the most successful of them/us all, “brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant...
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Categories:
cervantes, happiness, rights, success, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poyecto De Tren Instantaneo Entre Santiago Y Puerto Montt By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Proyecto de tren instantaneo entre Santiago y Puerto Montt by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of...
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Categories:
cervantes, allegory, extended metaphor, imagination, journey, meaningful, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Love Cento Poem
True Love Cento
There must be a million ways
To say I love you
But these words will suffice for now
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:
If ever two were one, then...
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Categories:
cervantes, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 12
Various Heresies 12
God Had a Plan
by Michael R. Burch
God had a plan
though it was hardly “divine.”
He created a terror:
Frankenstein.
He blamed death on man:
was that part of the plan
so hard to define,
or did he just...
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Categories:
cervantes, anger, christian, fear, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Rhyme
Worth Saving, Part Ii
...Shakespeare and his pentameter, vital after four centuries,
Cervantes and his man Sancho,
Dumas and Montecristo,
the great tales of Boccaccio,
Dicken and his fine ghosts three.
Beethoven's sonic fury still staggers even jaded minds,
Tchaikovsky made eighteen-twelve
sound utterly epic as...
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Categories:
cervantes, confusion, culture, how i feel, music, political,
Form:
Rhyme
THAT STRANDED GALLEON
A cool September day
We came to La Magdalena of Santander
Next to the Beach of Sardinero
To see the penguins and the seals
And the galleons "Ana de Ayala"
The "Cantabria" and the "Quitus Amazonas"
Stranded in the air
In the...
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Categories:
cervantes, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Don Quichotte
To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : A Don Quichotte
(Poem written in March 1861 that I would Verlaine had
dedicated to the Grand Dear Old...
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Categories:
cervantes, fantasy, poets,
Form:
Sonnet
Forever September
Yesterday’s September is gone…
Our love at first sight, our time together in
good times and bad…
Your strong embrace and true love
I will always remember…
Your faith so strong, anxious for nothing…
knowing your day was close...
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Categories:
cervantes, death, faith, god, heaven, love, september,
Form:
Narrative
Villanelle: Merchants of the Word Make Writers Write For Prizes
Villanelle : Merchants of the Word make Writers write for Prizes
Merchants of the Word make writers write for prizes
Does not the failed writer pose as house editor
Great treasures of the past were weaned without judges
Prized-writers...
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Categories:
cervantes, business, literature, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Villanelle
My City My Nation
Bludgeoning gray towers randomly spread, ingesting the living in their walls and beds.
Skeletal dragons seen through Cervantes eyes yet no whirling windmills in Manchester's skies.
A flag flutters freely where the wind takes it mind, red...
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Categories:
cervantes, beauty, change, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
I Saw Him Standing There
I see you there,
painting a literary facade,
thumbing through Cervantes
as though it has usurped your very being.
Your unenthused stance reveals your ruse
as do your constant glances in my direction.
In my quixotic state, I wonder if you
fancy...
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Categories:
cervantes, imagination, life, on writing and words, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Man and the Seine
The Old Man and the Seine
For the legendary George Whitman
(1912 – December 13, 2011)
King...
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Categories:
cervantes, allegory,
Form:
Sonnet