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Mirza Ghalib Translations
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
confounds, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
Reply From the Nonexistent
please tell me ...
what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most ...
my darkness didn't frighten you, didn't rattle,
you sighted those demons...
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Categories:
confounds, friendship, loss, memory, missing, missing you, teenage,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris Translation
Lament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed now by life’s terrible sickness
and enfeebled with infirmity ...
how the...
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Categories:
confounds, death, evil, fear, poets, sorrow, sympathy, writing,
Form:
Elegy
Son of Amittai - 2 of 2
(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2')
in the belly of the fish
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God,
Deep from the belly of leviathan.
“I cried out to you, Lord, in my distress,
For I...
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Categories:
confounds, bible, fish,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Nature
Dear January.
I don't deny that there are days of beauty;
days of temperate tones and warm blue skies.
I don't think I'm confused; so allow me a bit of muse.
Perhaps it's me and my shortsightedness,
but when I'm...
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Categories:
confounds, january, winter,
Form:
Personification
The Prophesy of Invention
Prophesy of Invention
Compositions of profound illumination resonating from a prophetic musician
Impositions that compound remuneration as the economists of capitalism demand an inquisition
A tired physician’s diagnosis that confounds all surgical precision
A technician becomes...
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Categories:
confounds, life,
Form:
Rhyme
What Do You Do
Do you always have ready excuse
In your pocket for times that life throws you a curve?
What if someone you love ups and dies?
Does it matter at all if they took their own life
Suddenly they’re not...
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Categories:
confounds, life,
Form:
Rhyme
From the Heart
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A sun had risen,
Some bit of ice or mercury had melted.
One stormy wind had come
When a...
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Categories:
confounds, faith, family, fantasy, fate, relationship, true love,
Form:
Romanticism
Lord God, You Are My Father Almighty
June 3 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 68-70
Key Verse – Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE...
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Categories:
confounds, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Sugar Daddy Saturday
Top shelf cologne exhibits sensual tail of peacock
Entrances my senses at our eleven a.m embrace
Eyes shut, my erratic stamina borrows comfort
Curled into leather front seat, chest inhales safe
Our waterfall guffaws cascade in establishments of...
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Categories:
confounds, beauty, candy, confidence, courage, desire, june, mirror,
Form:
Quatrain
As Autumn's Beauty Rests In Dying of Its Leaves
As Autumn's Beauty Rests In Dying Of Its Leaves
( Vae cuius obturatus est signatum manu sua. )
( Cuius spiritus in eis audita populi et ceterorum domantur socordiamque effusos)
( Cujus animam servare non curat.)
Years...
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Categories:
confounds, appreciation, art, autumn, beautiful, color, environment, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Not a Mystery
It's no mystery
the tools
the engineering
just the understanding
of forces
the way
Robert Frost walks
...
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Categories:
confounds, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Is Part 1
Poetry IS the Mother of ALL art.
The completion and the part.
A private punchline-divine.
Be it the fruit or be it the vine.
It is The IS, sometimes the Music,
sometimes the Muse for us.
The usery that uses us.
The...
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Categories:
confounds, art, inspiration, inspirational, poems, poetry, poets, romantic
Form:
Rhyme
Victory Is At Hand
Victory is at hand, we’ve made a glorious stand.
We’ve killed all those that betrayed us.
With their lives, those stalwart fools, they have had to pay us.
We relish the blood, their faces in the mud, what...
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Categories:
confounds, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Nature
Nature is Life
Nature is living
Nature connects us to life, to the earth and to each other
Nature is Elysium
Nature is profound
Nature is ethereal
Nature makes me smile
Nature makes me joyous
Nature makes me glad to be alive
Nature excites...
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Categories:
confounds, beauty, cheer up, earth, environment, happiness, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Thoughts I'Ve Been Pondering
Several things I've been pondering for a while,
None of them have given me reason to smile.
but I'll only reference two of them for now...
Those I've included leave me with furrowed brow.
...
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Categories:
confounds, perspective,
Form:
Monorhyme
Blank Slate
In my blank slate status…
serenity engulfs my soul
whenever I’m enclosed by God’s presence
with His providence sealing me
and sovereign protection serving as my fortress.
With my blank slate admission…
grace reigns over my heart
as the Saviour draws me...
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Categories:
confounds, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Opposites Subtract
A single tear swerved the curve of cheek
dragging mascara behind like sorrow lingers
and heavy breath exhales
as if they cost too much
she scrawls out words with
ferocity and intent
weaving their magic to strangle his hold
to...
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Categories:
confounds, lovewriting, lonely, love, writing,
Form:
I do not know?
Philosophy G700d - I Kant Prove God
Immanuel Kant, changed the spelling of his name from Emmanuel to "Immanuel" to accord with its Hebrew meaning: "God is with us." So, this quintessential Enlightenment thinker - and Thomas Jefferson a little after...
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Categories:
confounds, america, appreciation, bible, god, jesus, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Didactic
The Monumental Bridge
Submerge me in your madness
and drench me with your folly
Expound your thoughts aloud
and make your sentiments be known.
I just could not resist this temptation
stirring up in my blazing head
captivating my guiltless thoughts
and defying...
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Categories:
confounds, adventure, beauty, bird, blessing, earth, future, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Echoes of An Oboe
The sound of the oboe is an invitation for love. – My quote.
Listen, my sweet love, can you hear its sound?
It makes me wish to hug tight and kiss you. ...
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Categories:
confounds, love,
Form:
Ode
Me and the Zimmer Man - Continued
Anyways, this fella an’ me, we were on a rhyme-spree.
“Bob, ” I asked, “to what now do you aspire?”
To which he replied, in a drawl slow as a wet week,
”A spire? A place...
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Categories:
confounds, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Return Comment On Gold Fever
Hello to everyone who has read my poem “Gold Fever”
Thank you all so much for taking the time to comment.
I have to admit I was surprised that such an inflammatory poem would be chosen for...
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Categories:
confounds, history, poetry,
Form:
I do not know?
The Faces of Grief
Grief has many faces
It astounds and confounds
It pierces and perplexes
It turns your world upside down
It invades like a thief
It steals your normalcy
You’re right – its name is Grief!
Life’s intrusive enemy!
Is it a friend or foe?
Is...
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Categories:
confounds, bereavement, break up, death, depression, grief, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Us Fall Down
it's quiet time
the dawn has come and there...
there's no more reason to run
and yet the shadow of faith has surrounded you
and the complexity of life confounds you
Let us fall down
Let us fall down now
Let...
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Categories:
confounds, appreciation, celebration, forgiveness, god, inspirational, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Lyric