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Uyghur Poetry Translations
With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
cleaves, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
Perhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
cleaves, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
The Silver Axe
He wondered with horror how so many memories, so many forms to be branded on his skin and engrave there.
Then the wet rattle of a twisted throat, and he beats his last breath to his...
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Categories:
cleaves, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Kismat
Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...
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Categories:
cleaves, beautiful, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
The Black Crow
Three wholesome troubling years before, a thousand cursed days back
I lay, most stiff within my bed, my house of death did reek
And all my nightmares, all my slumbers, they were deep...
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Categories:
cleaves, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Phi Poetry of Reality In Dream
"I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams,
and the way
of the crossings-through the ills
and through the barriered things."
A fleeting spark that perceives,
I, have seen...
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Categories:
cleaves, art,
Form:
Rhyme
The Clock
Everything around is quiet, not a sound could be heard, except for the engine running up and down the street and the ticking clock erupting my heart beat.
I hear the sound of music, a yonder...
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Categories:
cleaves, analogy, appreciation, community, england, freedom, happiness, metaphor,
Form:
Narrative
A Short Transparent Frock: Sappho Translation
Sappho, fragment 155
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
A short transparent frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
NOTE: This is a translation/interpretation of an epigram by the legendary Sappho of Lesbos. Pollux wrote: "Sappho...
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Categories:
cleaves, clothes, desire, fashion, girl, girlfriend, innocence, longing,
Form:
Verse
Under the Fire
Under millions of stars...................eyes deeply fixed to the golden moon..............when dew on the grass is shinning like pieces of glasses...............on the bus to town................like a monkey on a tree,
With my favorite blue pen................sometimes draft in...
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Categories:
cleaves, confusion, depression, education, hope, life, loss, mystery,
Form:
Limerick
Ragnarok: the Storm
With the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle
In the forest crows the rooster
In the sky the sun does darken
In the cave...
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Categories:
cleaves, weather,
Form:
Epyllion
Mystery of a Marriage---Beholds Pure Love N Truth
God created man in His Image
Man is to have dominion
Over all the animals
And land
God Blessed Man
With Woman
Taking in fashioning a woman
From out of the side of man
From Out of man’s Rib
God stated Man...
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Categories:
cleaves, inspirational, love, mystery, woman, husband, time, wife,
Form:
I do not know?
To create art is to dance with the unseen and the ethereal
To create art is to dance with the unseen and the ethereal,
A mystical journey, an enigma even to its creators.
Poets feel this deeply,
A difference they can't yet define, an unspoken aura.
Within them, emotions boil in...
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Categories:
cleaves, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Those Lowly Entelechies
Impeccant,
of non-textual matters
one’s covered flesh,
and hidden embrasure’
as diffusate primer
slips life’s veil, and
in agitated pontlevis,
cleaves the universe’ reason…
“Egads! What sorcery is this?”
Holy heart failure, Batman!
“Beavis and...
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Categories:
cleaves, giggle, imagery, introspection, poetry, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Cascade Adventures --- Pt 2
The day would pass in blissful brightness, with our brains on auto-pilot. The stories we'd tell and the memories we'd conjure up from years past, one couldn't help but think we were all running on...
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Categories:
cleaves, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, freedom, mountains, nature,
Form:
Haibun
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY FATHER
November 19 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Galatians 4-6
Key Verse – Galatians 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
LORD...
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Categories:
cleaves, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
From Munir Mezyed Trips
According to the will of fate
I have come...
I emerge from the flood
A living soul.
My memory is torn by the night.
The night is enshrouded with darkness.
I wander around the world...
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Categories:
cleaves, life, philosophy, visionary, world, dream, dream, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Blessed To Be Grateful Collaboration
I am blessed by God
Justice and mercy
are found in the grace of the Lord
I am blessed by His Holy Spirit.
Thus, my...
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Categories:
cleaves, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
Coming of Age, Then Coming Down
Ecstasy:
*an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.
* slang 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine; MDMA: a powerful drug that acts as a stimulant and can produce hallucinations
Some time after midnight, a change in the noise
The...
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Categories:
cleaves, childhood, happiness, imagination, teen, body, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Icebox Days
A seething summer morning in the oil boom trailer park
Oral Roberts on the radio with the gospel told by Mark
The reek of raw petroleum is everywhere around
We little oil trash urchins play marbles on the...
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Categories:
cleaves, childhood, growing up, humorous, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
FAITH IN GOD WHO WARNS US AGAINST LIFTING UP OURSELVES
September 9 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 31-33
Key Verse – Ezekiel 31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his...
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Categories:
cleaves, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Poetry Soup Open Mic Kismet
Dusk marks stygian depths of this eldritch eve quay grim specter beneath the moon's silvery sheath surf cleaves with a hiss as the banshees keen weave lure to the thicket where shadows deceive yet beckoning...
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Categories:
cleaves, bird, dark, death, gothic, horror,
Form:
Free verse
FAITH IN GOD WHO IS MIGHTY AND EVERLASTING
July 30 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 9-12
Key Verse – Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall...
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Categories:
cleaves, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Blessed to Be Grateful - Collaboration
1. I am blessed by God
Justice and mercy
are found in the grace of the Lord
I am blessed by His Holy...
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Categories:
cleaves, 11th grade, blessing, god, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
cleaves, love,
Form:
Footle
Beautiful Killer
In the distance, [He] centers on [Her] shadow,
Resting in the emptiness by the desolate window.
Moth, masticated curtains imprison the light,
By casing the lampshade and confining the bright.
Faintly in view sits the intense apparition of...
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Categories:
cleaves, death
Form:
I do not know?