Long Dalliance Poems
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Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
dalliance, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
dalliance, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
dalliance, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Renee Vivien TranslationsRenee 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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Categories:
dalliance, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
dalliance, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Great Little Englandskinny island rump
highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
entity England
migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
monarchs, priests and lords
relaunching history and hope, the...
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Categories:
dalliance, culture, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
Zephyr“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr.
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for having me.”
“Can you tell the folks in the audience a...
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Categories:
dalliance, wind,
Form:
Personification
Interview with the Wind“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius
“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr.
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for having me.”
“Can you tell the folks in the audience a...
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Categories:
dalliance, wind,
Form:
Personification
Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, SittingSo many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing
January's record accumulation.
Weeks of hour after hour after hour
upon day upon day upon day of
birches'...
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Categories:
dalliance, death, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Our Completeness
Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Phenotype-inherited flaw chimera
fantasy flurry...
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Categories:
dalliance, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal, character, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Punctilious PunsI was a happy, fluent linguist, fruitfully helping revive endangered languages,
As colorful rainbows walk across the sky, in buttery hours, turned languorous.
I enjoyed doing practical fieldwork, and establishing useful literary programs,
As the honeysuckle sun loves...
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Categories:
dalliance, fantasy, imagery, language, nature, word play,
Form:
Couplet
Maintaining Marital Covenant Bailiwick Wife Doth Masterwhich prime mate affectionately called buttock blaster
alimentary explosion ofttimes causes global disaster
upon such gaseous debacle run for your life ever faster!
Yours truly (humorously dry husband)
can definitively attest,
she (thee missus) nixed, ordained,
inured, espoused blessed
discrete frolicsome liaisons...
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Categories:
dalliance, adventure, break up, devotion, forgiveness, grief, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Mean Mien Hence Deserved Cross To BareMine Mean Mien, Hence Deserved Cross To Bare
Upon reflection of fatherhood,
onset of hands-on schooling
fraught with narcissism
a role I lept in unaware
with slim success
unknowingly portending how fatuous
frolics spelled ultimate doom
with theoretical strings attached,
when snagged,...
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Categories:
dalliance, addiction, age, appreciation, betrayal, celebration, daughter, family,
Form:
Free verse
Frolic In the Off-Leash Dog ParkWith a wag of tail and tongue bedraggled
dogs drag their owners to frolic off-leash
in parks devoted to dog meets dog dalliance and play.
Despite their authority, the owners know each
not by the owner’s names, but by...
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Categories:
dalliance, dog,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Filched Physiognomy Mine RevisitedFilched Physiognomy – Mine revisited!
Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance
with light as a feather
miss lost acquaintance
the boy within forced admittance
as sure man tanks of...
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Categories:
dalliance, absence, addiction, age, angst, april, basketball, body,
Form:
Free verse
Idyllic reverie during break of dayIdyllic reverie during break of day
May today bring unbridled bliss
delivered courtesy sunshine kissed
giving Midas a run for his money.
When the last trace of night
evaporates analogous to milky hue,
whereat a dreamy state
pervades thy...
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Categories:
dalliance, angel, appreciation, april, beautiful, blessing, celebration, day,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm - Part 29the footing on the flanks of the Hill of Beans
was worse than he had sussed
that drizzling pale morning
when the Sun was lowest
but beans be damned
and their counters with them
yes I know
a smoky mess
like most of...
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Categories:
dalliance, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Sappho Translations ISappho Translations I
Sappho, fragment 132 (Lobel-Page 132)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
I have a delightful daughter
fairer than the fairest flowers, Cleis,
whom I cherish more than all Lydia and lovely Lesbos.
2.
I have a lovely daughter
with a...
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Categories:
dalliance, desire, love, love hurts, lust, passion, woman,
Form:
Free verse
A Cup of WordsFrom mouth to ear across a lifetime lived,
traveling strings tying lives together thread on thread.
Every one word building lifetimes;
bonded mud of bricks to house
our broken bags of trailing flesh.
We will hold each...
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Categories:
dalliance, books, community, deep, education, perspective, poets, words,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye To YouAlthough I've tried to understand your reasons for what you do,
sometimes I just turn my switch off, and ignore the nonsense.
Repeating the same ignorant remarks which obviously tweek my heart and soul,
you've really been asking...
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Categories:
dalliance, abuse, addiction, boyfriend, break up, goodbye, moving
Form:
Vaasokht
Mist-In-HerTo the Circuit of Energy permeating the garden, sustaining the canopy permeate
Washing through with waterfalls, cascading rivers, and upwelling springs the fermement
Was magically darkened when Eve took her classes at Satan’s grove
Where one tree (or...
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Categories:
dalliance, allah, boxing day , celebration, cry, graduate, money,
Form:
Ballade
GerminationAh, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom
of spring to summer fall to winter
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at once both self-reliant and reliant
my soul to embryo seed...
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Categories:
dalliance, birth, faith, flower, garden, growth, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Filched Physiognomy MineFilched Physiognomy - Mine!
Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance
with light as a feather
miss lost acquaintance
the boy within forced admittance
as sure man tanks of fat...
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Categories:
dalliance, age, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, grief, health, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
I felt ashamed when I realized that, in factI felt ashamed when I realized that, in fact,
Life is a masquerade party, where I stood without a mask,
I wandered with my uncovered face beneath the chandeliers,
Among specters and shadows hiding their secrets under false...
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Categories:
dalliance, life,
Form:
Free verse
The simplicity of yearningThe simplicity of yearning. It burns softly, like a hand grazing over a candle. A mouth full of sweet nothings to be spilled onto the damp from your tears pillow, alone. To be alone feels...
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Categories:
dalliance, angst, change, conflict, dark, devotion, horror, literature,
Form:
Free verse