Long Curiouser Poems

The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...

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Turkish Poetry Translations I



Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain? 
I see your eyes...

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Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as ever-expanding dimensions.
You are indispensable; how can...

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To all known shades, O virtuous Hinds,
With peerless hunger of a sordid kind:
Cover your ears. Cover
Your spirit.

Do not
Put the watered pot beneath the sun, that neutral sun
That struggles not to save you, but shall come...

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Do come, my love, for I insist!
Within the darkest crevices of time, we fight, we cry, I die
As vision gives us knowledge, we descend farther into the grime
Curiouser and curiouser, we fall in dark crevices...

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LOST dreams slide insensibly toward madness of dreams -- you close your eyes shut your wooden windows to life ~~ your dilated eyes drowning in a violent ocean.

Mister, you forgot your hat but now days...

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Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned rhymes
 amuck iniquitous poetic verses hung
    ...

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"Liaison"


All seeing,
one eye watching
isn’t blind

I close mine
then open them,
shut the mind

there’s a certain bad romance
in the all seeing 
just being, drags you in 

then you get tangled
up in the full clandestine tryst,
liaison with some nebulous...

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~*~

Close your eyes
To your surprise
Wake up never recognized..

Time beyond the looking glass
Nonchalantly travels past
Without a single question asked..

Judgmental eyes stare in vain
A victim of a curious brain
Begin at the beginning then start again..

Like falling...

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Wading Weighting Waiting Room

Wading in thoughts, weighting words, 
fearfully here in this waiting room.

There's a compact slightly cracked 
music player by itself on a shelf. 

Someone largely in charge has 
shaped tape over its switches.

So...

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Banshee poetry stuck
in zoned out twilights,
pushing limit's buttons
  'midst emotional roller 
     coaster high tides,
saw Jesus before his
 proverbial crowning glory,
surmised lucid perceptions
  hallucinating near death, 
standing at the...

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Tear away her skin, her bones,
Watch her curves move through...her tones
explore her body curiouser... and curiouser....
Sandwich her, squeeze her till her blood flows...
Let your sperms kill her, drown her in her woes.

Afterwards tell her how...

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"Curiouser and curiouser!", Alice proclaimed 
" eye two, am adore "

Seven ol' kin
on the strong arms 
of Seven strong more
Mercurius wings by to sing
" ... Welcome to the game, Ein ..."

Albert said to tangle
so direct...

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She blithely dreams of flitting butterflies,
 essence of lemon-drop poetry and
 lighter-than-vapor argent cotton candy castles
 upon empurpled cloud embellishes,
meanwhilst wistfully hot air balloons 
designed of lilting paisley embroidery
inflated with the airy fragrance
 of wildflowers'...

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I sneeze, and everyone follows suit.
Curiouser and curiouser.
I laugh and half of them laugh.
Two of them pointedly laugh louder after the rest of us quit laughing.
There are always two in every class.
I try to move...

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Indulge me, I am Calliope,
   igniting naked souls at heart
whilst poesy descends captive skies
    calling upon ecstatic harmonies
 whence day gives way to nature's
    bounteous prolific profundity
...

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Alice, Alice, little mullice
Found her way down a hole
First glimps of adventure she Chased that White Rabbit
Gradgualy slipped out of what she'd known
She Chased that White Rabbit to her second minds shelter
Where her mind was...

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