Long Clings Poems
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Poems About the Coronavirus IPoems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
clings, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
clings, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
ErinErin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
clings, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
clings, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
clings, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
clings, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
clings, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
clings, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
clings, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
clings, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
clings, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
clings, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Love Poems IiLOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
clings, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
clings, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Poets IPoems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
clings, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
clings, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
More Iffy Coronavirus Haikuyet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
clings, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Covid Walkthermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
clings, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Rightbrain Victim QuestionsWhat if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?
Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in exchange for conserving an evolutionary win/lose model
serving industriously degenerating corporate...
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Categories:
clings, community, health, history, integrity, peace, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Of Unknown OriginNylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not...
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Categories:
clings, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Mother HenI felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful...
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Categories:
clings, animal, bird, blessing, devotion, love, mother, mothers
Form:
Free verse
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part OneFor old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for « some » other giants - Part One
...
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Categories:
clings, philosophy, tribute,
Form:
Quatrain
Translation of Mat Pokora's Je Suis Tombe By T WignesanTranslation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan
(NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French original herebelow) of this lilting catchy tune not just because...
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Categories:
clings, french, happiness, love, love hurts, romantic love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Out of the Way*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.
Out Of The Way
As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,
Upon my own free will,...
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Categories:
clings, death, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The TravelerA traveler dwelling among refreshing springs
The busied day was drawing a close
Evening dishes clamored loudly to sing
Outside my door a whipping wind blows
Working to rest a goodnight rest
Again I hear that whipping wind that blows
But...
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Categories:
clings, emotions, faith, inspiration, jesus,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets