Long Contends Poems
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Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
The 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:
contends, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
Dusk-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:
contends, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Ancient Haiku
These 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:
contends, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
Grasses 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:
contends, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
contends, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Connected To Last Entry
...while true feminists say that they are feminists because they care for the well-being of women, the modern feminist group, True/Active Feminism does exactly the opposite. They use the form of "dis-pair"...
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Categories:
contends, art,
Form:
Other
Forced Ska Hoard and Save Hen Years Ago
History contends that on that score
hing hot summer at 6:00 pm June sixteenth
in the year 666 after the Devonian era,
two lovers - a Mister Belmont Me
and Missy Bryn Mawr Hu felt the...
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Categories:
contends, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Light Verse
1994
Xiou Xue
‘Little Snow’ her story. ( my son's family 'home helper)
Ma wars, with earth to conjure a meal, ...
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Categories:
contends, adventure, christian, culture, imagery, time,
Form:
ABC
Ode On Butter
Love like hope betides,
nature is her ere scene,
what if the world would host, tis,
things flowing monsters, if wise, otherwise,
oh!, I think that the earth,
has blue and green and red...,
a little calendar of this savannah.
As...
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Categories:
contends, adventure, love,
Form:
Ode
Keats Nightingale
Keats’ Nightingale
The romantic poets were too early to postulate total atheism,
And so freshened up the church by aligning god with nature,
And I believe they had a preference for nature over god or theism,
Because they...
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Categories:
contends, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, bird, dream, god, happiness,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
And
An apparitions favourite word from punctuation-less sentences that continue on, on, on.
Cope without it you useless fools a flick suffices.
Semi-colon, colon, joining words thrust through the large intestines that have never shone.
After the stop get...
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Categories:
contends, bereavement, best friend, extended metaphor, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Under the vault of shadow of unfulfilled love
Under the vault of shadow of unfulfilled love,
The sweet poison becomes the purpose of bitter days,
When the heart, caught in the tender dance of beginnings,
Gradually sinks into the labyrinth of forced intimacy.
A flight that seemed...
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Categories:
contends, love,
Form:
Free verse
Speechless!!!
“That dream only needs a speech to bring about the change the world has been waiting for,
never be speechless no matter what; you have something to say...”
Felix Joseph.o
SPEECHLESS!
A feeling contends to...
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Categories:
contends, politicalworld, dream, change, dream, me,
Form:
I do not know?
INSANE POETRY RUNNING AWAY Part 01
Gathered among lovely nymphs, whose grace shines brightly like eternal stars
Their vibrant essence lingers, embracing radiantly,
In the dream-laden air, does my love pursue only a fleeting vision?
My uncertainty, an ancient veil of darkness, now reaches...
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Categories:
contends, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Vigil for the Light
My life depends on utter defeat to this implacable foe.
Yet, my anguish contends to strike him a fatal blow.
He was born from my dream, to stand vigil for the light.
Now in confrontation, I am in...
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Categories:
contends, atheist, conflict, creation, husband, poems, stress, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hermit
What drives the hermit to his cave?
The same thing that drives him out
Need
Though he is the most austere sort,
living on berries and other wild things
His dreams are human dreams
Not to build castles or collect treasure
but...
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Categories:
contends, people, god, god, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Bull of the Woods
Takes a gallon of coffee to wake him,
But it’s sweet when his axe hits the spot,
While the mist slips away from the mountain,
And the day hardens dusty and hot.
He contends with the bothersome thicket,
Stays alert...
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Categories:
contends, allegory, desire, loneliness,
Form:
Lyric
A Masked Requiem for a Virulent Era
A cold berating
light-erasing rope
survives
relentless
entropy
(another year ends
another variant contends)
Desolate debris in
empty
erroneous caves
swallow
blank pages
submerged in
mind-warping seas
where flying memes
wait for normalcy
where words freeze
&...
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Categories:
contends, dark, society, surreal, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Alms And Tithes
ALMS AND TITHES
Alms, spontaneous like a gentle breeze,
Tithes, a steady stream, a spiritual ease.
Both hold real value and kindle light,
In the acts of giving, souls take flight.
In worlds where compassion transcends,
These two acts of...
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Categories:
contends, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
the symphony
New York City is like a cobblestone symphony,
where jackhammers and footsteps form the rhythmic timpani,
sirens and honking taxis, are the cymbals, that provide sudden bursts of energy,
traffic’s hum could be the violins and pigeon squawk...
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Categories:
contends, emotions, environment, fun, holiday, humor, life, new
Form:
Rhyme
Little Girl On the Tube
A few days it’s been
since I rode the Orange tube
out from Enoch, nothing new.
Amusing myself with literature,
the glue that contends
our oneness.
As I dissolved and fancied myself
unique from all the goers...
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Categories:
contends, appreciation, children, fate, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Etiquette of Selfless
The etiquette of the night stands by the curtain with contentment
Picture of crawling crickets hectic body of voters colored
The darkness of imagination manipulates to dark our constitution to
constituency zone
The constant condemnation is an umbrella...
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Categories:
contends, dedication, faith, grief,
Form:
Ballad
Blasphemy
Blasphemy
"The Truth will out."
- So say the sages.
Yet lies proliferate-
Pages and pages;
Though the nude Emperor parades,
Sans clothes and sense,
His adoring subjects embrace his charades
Trading reality for reassurance;
This is not a new occurrence.
We've been down this...
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Categories:
contends, america, anger, angst, freedom, patriotic, political,
Form:
Rhyme
In a Silent Prayer - 2
In a silent prayer…
My heart pleads
For the grace, the stirring
Of His presence
His charisma, His spirit
Falling across my soul
Reflecting His precious love
In a silent prayer…
My mind contends
With His cherished spirit
Please bring peace
Joy, hope and wisdom
Rain down...
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Categories:
contends, appreciation, blessing, faith, god, inspirational, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Daredevil
His power comes to height during the night
For in darkness, he glows bright like Moon Knight
Though fierce light took away his sense of sight
His reflexes could sense beyond their might
His legend...
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Categories:
contends, hero,
Form:
Rhyme