Long Death song Poems

Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

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Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....

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Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.

Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.

Let me...

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Rejection
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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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.

Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...

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Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Each day I’m plagued by three doles,
These gargantuan weights on my...

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Written 04/02/2025, for the Iron Maiden " Dance of Death" song, contest sponsored by Robert James L. 

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Scary lie shrouded in opulence ...

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The passionate young man on his way to his love
Walked by a lake carrying a snow-white dove
Inside his shirt he held it close to his heart
When he heard a song - an enchanting work of...

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One leaf falls
holographic illusion
across time the Terminator travels
to shape Sarah Connors' destiny.
Heart attack
a common enough destiny
as common as young men discussing girls' tits.
The Constitution
is the document we refer to, the lodestone
to correct course and not...

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" WHEN  ALL  THAT  YOU  HELD  SACRED
   FALLS  DOWN  AND  DOES  NOT  MEND... 

         ...

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Boy

1. The rain hits my hood
2. As it falls to the ground
3. My feet are wet
4. The cold water feels so good
5. But I still don’t make a sound
6. Death is all I will get

7....

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Anna left early from Soho
But still she got caught in the storm
Due at 5:30, it’s quarter to ten
She should never have driven alone

Maybe she’s parked at a rest stop
Or maybe some roadside motel
Or maybe we...

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Brick by brick she 
stumbled and crumbled,
one roped to my ankle, 
                       ...

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You hear the knock at your door
You hear the creaking of your floor
You believe it's all in your head
And that your completely safe in your bed

A shadow runs across your room
You believe it's all too...

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In the land of dreams the past
Make no my spirit within me burn
For the scenes and the hours that may not return
Therefore disturbing dreams
Trouble the secret stream
Shall i then fear the tone?
No it is not...

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I wanna die now
I wanna die
Does it really come as a surprise
Look me in my eyes do you despise
Me cause I wanna die

What's the view like after death I wonder
If it's even any better or...

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Chiefs Black Kettle, White Antelope and tribes of Cheyenne and Arapahoe,
In November of eighteen sixty-four camped nigh Sand Creek in Colorado,
Sending out hunting parties to harvest bison that were than so rife,
Provided by the Great...

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Eating bowls of dying meat
                      sucking poison which taste sweet.
    ...

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It’s known as the Warrior Poem and is attributed to Tecumseh
a Native American warrior and chief
who as a Native American in the late 17 and early 1800’s
knew his share of war…and pain…and grief…

Though written many...

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I look into the mirror of my soul
And an image does unfold.
Is this really me
This creature that I see?

When did I open the gate
For this demon known as hate?
When did I let envy in
With all...

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Tomorrow is our last,
  To be free;
So let us make it last,
  You and me
Yesterday’s deeds are done
  Let us go
We gave our bravest son
  Let him go
I wish upon this...

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because we did not
choose death
it chose us

how the dead die
how the lies, lie
how the wind howls
under a clear Nevada sky

how the colors fade
to black, black,
black
twisting us up
fireballs and
acid pools
burning souls
of sorrow

sorrow skin kites
fly away
black as...

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Eating bowls of dying meat
                      sucking poison which taste sweet.
    ...

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I lost a friend so long ago
Back in the juvenile years of life
To witness death, too young, 
But Universe thought it wise
To show death to a child. 
I saw her laid in a box 
covered...

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Ive seen the past in the back of my eyes
Ive lived mylife reaching toward the skies
Memories flash by and make me smile
Im looking atthe end that coming in a short while

Ive suffered pain and grief...

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The helmsman sings a merry song:
Haec est vera fraternas,
and downs a cup of something strong,
Hick, vera, hick, hick, fraternas.

The sailors dance a lusty jig,
forsaking sails, crow's nest and rig.
Young princes and their ladies fair
join in...

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