Long Comforts Poems
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Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
comforts, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
comforts, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
comforts, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
comforts, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
comforts, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
comforts, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
My Love My All
World's Longest Love Poem (second edition)
Title: My love my all
Edited by Izunna Okafor
Editor's Note:
Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...
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Categories:
comforts, love,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Ii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
comforts, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
comforts, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked earthling near death owing to drowning. Sam (Ka ‘Lo -...
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Categories:
comforts, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Wear His Armor - the Lanterne Style
~ Wear His Armor ~
( Lanterne )
~O~
Feel
Much pain
But with His
Love I'll always
Walk
~o~
With
Lord help
...
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Categories:
comforts, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Forever Forgive Me
Forever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally
Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my soul free
Forever forgive me
Determine my footsteps to the light
Emotionally unhappy
Intervene...
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Categories:
comforts, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 6
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 6
Brahmari Pranayama or Humming Bee Breath
IMP. NOTE: Temporarily I am stopping new episodes
of Yoga in Poem due to personal reasons and will try
to restart Yoga in...
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Categories:
comforts, health, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'
Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2
This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...
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Categories:
comforts, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Didactic
The Adverse World
I sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better tomorrows
You know who comforts...
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Categories:
comforts, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, pain, passion, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
comforts, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated
upon...
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Categories:
comforts, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form:
Rhyme
The Global Bankers and Me
" Good evening gentlemen, at last we meet.
I am so honored to bask in the presence of your company.
Meeting all of you global bankers has always been my fantasy,
so seeing you all before me now...
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Categories:
comforts, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
God's Bag of Sugar
God's bag of sugar
Burst all over the North
The sweet scent of the stars are pleasant to the eyes.
The limiltless strength of the belt of Orion
Three stars in one belt,
That only God can bind
Bring...
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Categories:
comforts, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Future Self Among Others
Future selves recycle past dynamic imaginations,
Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images
evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin,
double-edged incarnations of power.
It is in this coincidentia oppositorum,
claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
that the peaks,
the Taoist Tipping Points
of wu wei...
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Categories:
comforts, christian, culture, earth, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
THE GLASS JAW OF MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD
MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD WAS QUITE FAMOUS FOR HIS POWERFUL PUNCH BUT ALSO FOR HAVING A GLASS JAW ACCORDING TO ALEX RAMOS THE DIGNITY FOUNDATION RETIRED BOXING ASSOCIATION I ADORED WATCHING BOB AND EZZARD CHARLES...
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Categories:
comforts, allah,
Form:
Naat
Terminal
A couple of months ago, my wife received news that there was an ...
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Categories:
comforts, faith, family, grief, prayer, sick,
Form:
Verse
Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - a Second Translation Revised
As ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11
At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should, 11
(Without...
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Categories:
comforts, journey, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Devastation of the Broken
Sudden movement of my heart, a shattered piece of art,
Broke me apart from the start…rolling in the inner death-cart
Heartrate going sky high — I won’t lie nor can I deny that life cuts deep...
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Categories:
comforts, angst, betrayal, conflict, deep, depression, endurance, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Ledger of Love: PART II
Ledger of Love
In the shadows of the Victorian night,
Where candles flicker with amorous light,
A forbidden love fiercely burns,
In a pounding heart, passion yearns.
Amidst the lace and satin array,
Where masks conceal bygone dismay,
A dance of desire,...
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Categories:
comforts, break up, emotions, heartbroken, life, longing, lost
Form:
Narrative