Long Compel Poems
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Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith 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:
compel, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
compel, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat 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:
compel, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
compel, political, satire, love, power,
Form:
Free verse
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and QuotesLEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES
These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis...
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Categories:
compel, art, eulogy, nature, poems, poetry, silence, spring,
Form:
Epigram
Racing Justice"The way I see it,
we're all related."
said my EcoTherapist.
While DNA and RNA include infinite permutation possibilities,
their primal core functions suggest simple bipolar relationships
between who's inside and what's outside,
and who is dominant so the Other recessed,
perhaps...
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Categories:
compel, journey, peace, race, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through the gardens of wrath
It echoes through me, this deep ambition
Half...
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Categories:
compel, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
In the Minds Fixed EyeVIII
In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate"; ...
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Categories:
compel, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Part 1 - Life AwaitedI have a story that needs be told
A story I never knew if words can transcript
For it belongs when in dreams I enroll
Visions before or an afterlife if I shall seek
If it all shall begin…...
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Categories:
compel, imagination, life, words, me, world, language, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
A More Than Fair Exchange - 1st HalfThis is the 1st half of a 2-part piece a tad too long for a single posting - a tale likely very close to factual -
An ivory-tinted fluffy billow drifted through the sunrise -...
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Categories:
compel, fate, prayer,
Form:
Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 30A whirl, a gust, and a thunderous boom commenced,
Heartened by the latter soreness of silent night,
Shackled through the chill blows above,
A tempest, a storm,
Threshing the world,
Shaking the Prison of Plot,
The waters of the Holy Spirit...
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Categories:
compel, art, destiny, endurance, gospel, inspiration, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
My TownFrom north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...
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Categories:
compel, city, history, home, me, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The HurdlesTHE HURDLES:
Explain this won't be a devour,
As all this while you considered a diva.
He'd set hurdles, Eva...
Which's breeding woes and fever.
I know you understand that's not trivial,
From the university of life, I have become...
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Categories:
compel, abuse, discrimination,
Form:
Lyric
My Lovely DadIt’s with great difficulty I put my pen on this paper.
Struggling as to when and what to begin with.
Learning that life has its way of collapsing
Our paths down to one: unchangeable, inescapable.
A journey...
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Categories:
compel, dad, death, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Chasing ConstellationsI'm not a saint though I compel myself to be one
I'm not a sinner, no, yet I can't outrun the ideology
Ascending into descension or am I descending into ascension
Maybe I, maybe I am only stuck...
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Categories:
compel, love, me, meaningful, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalypse Boko HaramLast night,
when laid i my head to rest,
dreamt i a dream
dreadful;
I wept,though i was a deep in sleep,
I saw a baobab tree with three branches,
on it lays the colony of three birds of the
air,
of...
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Categories:
compel, violence
Form:
ABC
Canto Xxiii Hell Translation Part 2I stopped there, and saw two showing high rate
Of their will, on their face, to join with me;
But were hampered by narrow street and weight.
When reached us, with their eyes awry to see
Then looked at...
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Categories:
compel, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Gun In Every HomeTwo fine films: The Lost City and Blood Diamond.
I joined Blood Diamond during a village massacre
and said to my wife A gun in every home.
Those devils would think twice
before razing the village and seizing the...
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Categories:
compel, fear, home, lost, music, sexy, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
Coming HomeI remember the night I first tasted sweet love.
Joining a boy for that magical, first time,
Under the glimmer of our own, fat moon,
Next to a silvery lake, sampling the divine.
We explored and shared the ultimate...
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Categories:
compel, first love, hope, lonely, longing, love, soulmate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
InceptiveEARTH from heavy loam the potter does preform out of the ground a vessel with no breath ...
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Categories:
compel, allegory, bible, christian, environment, god, jesus, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Rule of Threes FivePride negatory
Better to share His glory
God writes your story
Special kind of gain
We can only learn through pain
God may not explain
Treasure has a source
Wisdom is treasure, of course
God stores His resource
When God sends trouble
And we climb...
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Categories:
compel, bible, christian, muse, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
On Those Who Diminish Truth, Part IThere seems to be an excess of people
who question the validity of truth,
from post-modern professors teaching crap,
to poisoned and indoctrinated youth.
Some claim that objective truth can’t exist,
or if it does, it can never be known,
others...
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Categories:
compel, how i feel, meaningful, people, philosophy, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever Flying - 2
Spring whispers joy into the spirit
Promises of hope sing from wildflower
Melodies, reflecting brilliant smiles
Falling down from moonlit skies
Spring breathes laughter into the heart
Inspiration over the silence of a thought
Prayers compel the soul to feel...
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Categories:
compel, appreciation, blessing, heaven, hope, inspirational, jesus, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Mysteries..."Go now, Daniel, for what I have said is not ...
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Categories:
compel, god, mystery,
Form:
Couplet
Forgiven, Therefore, I ForgiveThe offender's indifference to the 'gift of forgiveness given', ...
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Categories:
compel, christian, forgiveness, god,
Form:
Couplet