Long Compose Poems
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Medieval Poems Ii
Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
compose, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of Infinity
Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
compose, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Keeping America Safe
A prayer for God to bless Americans,
whether northern or southern,
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments
in global health and security.
No one "keeps" these northern confederations
of uniting states...
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Categories:
compose, culture, earth, health, political, race, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
compose, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sweetspots
Could you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
compose, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
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:
compose, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation
Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
compose, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928
A Year Of Months (July-December)
8. July
July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...
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Categories:
compose, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Gold Political Nutrition Standards
If political scientists study power relationships,
could economists study interior and exterior communications
for cooperative/competitive nurturing for/against
empowerment/disempowerment
integral win/win health association
through disintegrating
pathologica win/losel
dissociation trends?
Both political and economic researchers,
one and all together,
of sound neurologically wealthy
monotheistic AnthroMind
and ecologically healthy...
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Categories:
compose, beautiful, culture, health, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
A Letter To Poetry
"A word like a river flows through the mind" ...
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Categories:
compose, poetry,
Form:
Personification
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
compose, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
compose, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Meet On the Upper Floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no one to guard the door
What would the rich do...
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Categories:
compose, beauty, change, emotions, friendship love, independence day,
Form:
Narrative
Legacy of Hiphop
And that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
compose, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural...
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Categories:
compose, abuse, addiction, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
compose, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a Trilogy
Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...
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Categories:
compose, appreciation, art, birth, blessing, time, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark
We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...
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Categories:
compose, education,
Form:
Free verse
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically heartily hales
from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
undergoes oh joy rapture colonoscopy.
Three days...
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Categories:
compose, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday, blessing, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter From Me
ME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing teens in America’s Black Communities.
Use to be,
Good Christian mothers,...
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Categories:
compose, black african american, conflict, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The Whips of History - 4
Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to...
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Categories:
compose, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Softly Off-Colored Poem - 2
Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure. The poem writing technique is to write as unconsciously as...
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Categories:
compose, life,
Form:
Free verse
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt Ravidas
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...
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Categories:
compose, art, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, raven, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''
“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrained,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To...
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Categories:
compose, england, fate, literature, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose
The part of me That Never Lived
It is with tears in my eyes that I write these verses of hope, it is with tears in my eyes I climb the mountain of joy and stands on top of it and...
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Categories:
compose, america, best friend, city, community, dance, environment,
Form:
Narrative