Long Cyprus Poems
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Sappho TranslationsSappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
cyprus, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
cyprus, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415The First Valentine Poem
Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...
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Categories:
cyprus, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
cyprus, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
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:
cyprus, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS 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:
cyprus, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Love Poems ILOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
cyprus, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Arni Kleftiko Stolen LambArni Kleftiko Stolen Lamb
The Cypriots and Greeks have a few differences,
And can argue a great deal,
But both agree when it comes to ‘Kleftiko”
It has forever been, the most delectable
Traditional Greek meal,
That ever a bandit...
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Categories:
cyprus, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
Classified Part OneI have been instructed to release the following
manuscript on the death of my client
Mr John Phillips. Who was a former officer in the Royal Air Force.
Mr P.J .Carruthers. LLB.
Solicitor for estates and wills.
London.
16th February...
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Categories:
cyprus, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part1Whoever might with just free words beside
Speak of the blood and in full too of sores
Which I saw now, with a narration wide?
Any speech will sure fail to open doors
To our sermon and for the...
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Categories:
cyprus, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Living In the Middle EastYou put him in a cage
That pilot you shot down
Pour gasoline on him
And set him ablaze
And the world is silent...
That seventeen year old girl
Writhes on that soiled bed
As you let all those other men
Rape her...
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Categories:
cyprus, violence, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Clinging Dresses: Sappho TranslationSappho fragment 22
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
That enticing girl's clinging dresses
leave me trembling, overcome by happiness,
as once, when I saw the Goddess in my prayers
eclipsing Cyprus.
NOTE: This is a translation of...
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Categories:
cyprus, beauty, crush, desire, girl, girlfriend, happiness, lust,
Form:
Epigram
The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"
They called her
the tree hugger,
her forest was full
of trees that watched
silently, they had
no mouth to speak,
rustling their leaves
like fingers writing
strange stories coded
for decoding a mystery
on...
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Categories:
cyprus, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Sing, Lyre: Sappho TranslationSappho, fragment 118
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre;
come, let my words
accompany your voice.
"Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is apparently addressing her lyre. The legend is that Hermes made the first...
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Categories:
cyprus, Lullaby, muse, music, song, sound, spoken word,
Form:
Epigram
Double StandardsWhen one makes viable peace
Between erstwhile colonial whites
And erstwhile colonized blacks
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such was the case in South Africa.
‘It is all for...
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Categories:
cyprus, conflict, peace, political,
Form:
Free verse
My Persian QueenFrom the Gardens of Babylon,
to the walkways of Palestina,
to the grand temples of Jerusalism,
to the sandy beaches of Syria and Cyprus.
Went my Persian Queen riding,
upon her golden, firery chariot.
Her black hair, like silk long and...
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Categories:
cyprus, beach, body, care, city, drink, earth, fire,
Form:
Romanticism
My Living Painting“Where is it?” I asked the art dealer with no preamble whatsoever. The tears were about to spill down my cheeks, and I found it hard to get the words past the lump in my...
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Categories:
cyprus, art, beauty,
Form:
Narrative
The Dogs We Called FamilyThe Dogs we called Family
Tara came first and then there was Ben,
When both of them died we said never again.
Then Sam the runner, got killed in the street,
Prince came and went quick, we didn't know...
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Categories:
cyprus, dog, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form:
Epitaph
Beautiful ThingsSome things are lost along the line
Some things, beautiful and fine
Driving down the lone road to the stream in my hamlet
It’s like yesterday; like catching birds from their nest
I giggled as I drove by
Mothers breast...
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Categories:
cyprus, black african american, childhood, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Oh Captcha SquaresOh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?
Cars and busses, traffic lights
Bicycles...
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Categories:
cyprus, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
My Living Breathing Poem“I’m reading your poems, Mama”
She wrote while we were chatting online today
I was thrilled
What could give me more joy
Than to have my 19 year old
My only child, the light of my life
Read my work?
Then...
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Categories:
cyprus, daughter, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Life Is Shortit seems in just the twinkling of an eye
life passes by
and one's left at the brink
with time to think
before the fall
into the great abyss
where did time go?
For some, life is short
for others, long
But the...
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Categories:
cyprus, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Tasted SummerI tasted summer…
It sure tasted good
I was dying for a sip
Of my iced coffee CHINO
Only in Cyprus…
My drug of choice
Crushed ice with sweetened coffee
OH....YES!
In the evenings
succulent watermelon treats
Eating it all with relish
Even the seeds
what greed!
I...
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Categories:
cyprus, sea, september, summer, sun, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 08Brutus Iulius Trois page 08
Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement to the Thracian...
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Categories:
cyprus, history,
Form:
Epic
SensitivitySENSITIVITY
They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black gravestone in New York, down in the world,
Recalling its halcyon days as a part of
The impressive strata ...
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Categories:
cyprus, funnynight, old, beach, feelings, night, old,
Form:
Free verse