Long Coups Poems

 Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan


"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...

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Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.

It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...

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 Translation of Eric Mottram’s HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T. Wignesan

(Note: Here, I retain EM’s translations into English from Paul Eluard’s poems and his source language quotations from “this vital spirits…” onwards, for, according...

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Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In the dark of the night,
In the end what remains from...

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Klacatoo – Translation of Kevin Gilbert ‘s « Klacatoo » by T. Wignesan

On nous avait coincé sur la rive de Lachlan
un endroit qui s’appelle Klacatoo
là où nous rassemblions au coucher du soleil
quand nous entendions le...

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Trump poems and epigrams V

The prez should be above the law, he sez,
even though he’s no longer prez.
—Michael R. Burch



Mercedes Benz
by Michael R. Burch

I'd like to do a song of great social and political import....

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I'm retired and now possess an acre of land
with plans to build a home. This acre is a few
feet from the spot where I was born. If the home
is where your story begins, I'm home...

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In the heart of vibrant Africa, where democracy should reign,
Two shadows lurk, two specters haunt, two faces of the same pain.
One a soldier, gun in hand, the other clothed in suit,
Both rob the people of...

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The truth is : world system is totally wrong, 
                     It is not wrong to criticize it daily.
Only few beneficiaries can think otherwise 
whenever some victims speak the truths. 
Quote by poet. 

young women of...

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We Must Decide
By Franklin Price
4/14/2017

We must decide just who we are - Not who we have become
Our Christian values under foot - As in the place that we came from
As persecuted Christians - Chose to...

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Africa, can rise.
But that is only if we are ready to fight.
And to end our plight,
Our weakness should come to light. 
But Africans think is normal?
That our children under five should be dying of malaria.
But...

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The brother of the leader Red then grabbed darts from the board 
and hurled them at the squad cars tyres ... and yes, the lad had scored. 
Detective Konaday then played the nastiest of pranks...

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Civil War II

Perhaps if civil war comes, it will be broken into scores of guerilla wars.  
This prolonged agony is a reason General Lee surrendered!

The division in America—2024

Once again, they’ll vote him in
Unfinished business...

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   In the dark corners of their minds,
lies hidden secrets and falsetto, falsety 
and masquerade blind.
Humming to transcendental humanistic deities.
Beating you down to the beat 
of their own drum of a 4th kind.

Ghettos...

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There is a place in Africa
Where the children are hopless and dream-less.
Their hope are taken by the politicians who
Seems to have it all in their domain whilst the
Poor rot in the dungeon of hopelessness.

The pretty...

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I wore no uniform—
just silence and suits.
A ghost in global rooms,
a whisper behind the curtain.
I was a civilian,
but my job was war.

They called it "analysis,"
but what I did was study souls.
The psychology of power—
Presidents, rebels,...

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World wars

For roads where identified works are ongoing.
Clarity is always about the apparent progress of things.
The gains of the plans strengthen everything in the parallel structures of the lands.
But if it is wrong,the management requirements...

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Today's headline: Mass vaccination in Africa begins in mid-2021

Wildfires do not pause for water hose, their seething pain not soothed by
a retard, life's full of
pose and repose when fairness reigns, otherwise
it's forfeited to vulgar lust....

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Could always feel the threat in the air,
When a bad storm was gathering fast.
Soon heavy clouds would conquer the fair,
And hold them captive in their firm grasp.

Thunder like huge kettle drums would pound,
Lightening hit with...

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What Does It All Mean?

By Elton Camp

There are many disturbing reports being heard
Expected and unexpected things have occurred
Earth is becoming more dangerous every day
Of wars, coups and poison gas, news reports say

Mass killers are more...

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Save the Constitution

What would the framers of the constitution say?
To see socialists gaining favoritism and momentum
And grabbing power by debasing the United States,
By destroying the foundation on which America was built.

Propaganda and hatred spew from...

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I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering.
 I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety.
 I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy.
 My distress illuminated the darkness...

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April 16—Rain

No Rain



In 2025, the world ended
With the collapse
Of the worldwide climate system.

Monster storms of the century
devastated half the world.

But the other half of the world
Had no rain or snow
For almost a whole year
The once-green...

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Days have gone when he spoke;
Yes, years turned yester-years,
When the wide-mouth spoke last;
Yet, he dwells in a brighter horizon:
A city of opulence & flamboyance;
Had he spoken before the oracles,
Then, a radical he is?

Isn’t it true...

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1971 to 2011
Then,
If only, we could understand
We could have walked hand in hand.
If only, plots could be reversed
Echoes could have been hushed.
If only, coups could be avoided
Laws could have been abided.
If only, lust could be...

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