Long Dunbar Poems
Long Dunbar Poems. Below are the most popular long Dunbar by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Dunbar poems by poem length and keyword.
Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
dunbar, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
dunbar, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
dunbar, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
dunbar, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy most popular poems on the Internet (I)
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:
dunbar, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
dunbar, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
I Want a DoggyOh how I want a doggy,
a bundle of love and fur. ...
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Categories:
dunbar, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Narrative
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:
dunbar, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
dunbar, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize WinnerAs soon as I heard
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we...
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Categories:
dunbar, assonance, black african american, books, muse, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Bigger Than You ThinkBigger than YOU Think
The internet,
is large... indeed.
It starts here and never ends.
It just starts over somewhere else.
In the beginning AOL,
time spent waiting to connect.
Now we sail across the sea,...
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Categories:
dunbar, addiction, allah, america, angel, appreciation, assonance, august,
Form:
Narrative
William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris TranslationLament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed now by life’s terrible sickness
and enfeebled with infirmity ...
how the...
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Categories:
dunbar, death, evil, fear, poets, sorrow, sympathy, writing,
Form:
Elegy
Spare Us To the Hands of Your EnemyYou God, the Creator of the universe.
You are existed before everything else.
You made us the same image of you and
Take good care of us. We, human are dependent of you.
We love you, we adore you,...
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Categories:
dunbar, inspiration, inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Stop Killing My CountryStop Killing My Country
Accused of political banter,
to speak the words, God Bless,
and America in the same sentence.
Bespeaking the fear,
of being proud,
just to be born in a land free from tyranny....
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Categories:
dunbar, allah, america, anti bullying, chocolate, christian, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
Does Anybody Care About Her LifeWhen I was young, ...
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Categories:
dunbar, care, old, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mask of FateThe Mask of Fate
(This poem deals with the Corona Virus.
It is very intense.)
My kid's school called.
The college.
They said that there had been...
a national concern; regarding the Sun.
No...
That was not...
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Categories:
dunbar, abortion, anxiety, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Narrative
The BearsAs a child I loved playing with teddy bears, ...
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Categories:
dunbar, child, love, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Giving Realization of the MatterWhy people hurt people? Why we do hurt?
We do hurt people because, we get hurt.
We do hurt people because of; foolishness, selfishness, greediness,
Jelousness, enviousness, dis-contentedness, and evilness.
We punished people because, we our selves are...
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Categories:
dunbar, inspirational, meaningful,
Form:
Verse
Giving Realization of the MatterWhy people hurt people? Why we do hurt?
We do hurt people because, we get hurt.
We do hurt people because of; foolishness, selfishness, greediness,
Jelousness, enviousness, dis-contentedness, and evilness.
We punished people because, we our selves are hurting....
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Categories:
dunbar, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Verse
Glass Half Full Glass Half EmptyTake a glass and fill it half full of water.
We have often heard by some the glass is half full,
by others the glass is half empty.
Now which is it half full or half empty?
It is...
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Categories:
dunbar, books, day, games,
Form:
Narrative
The CrossThe great tribulation of Jesus Christ as a son of man on
Earth and a son of God in heaven. The prophesy of
God fulfill on the cross. The debt of sins paid by the
Blood...
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Categories:
dunbar, inspirational,
Form:
Verse
A LullAs I slept a spell fell over me ...
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Categories:
dunbar, dream, music, storm,
Form:
Tristich
Run Through In BabylonRun Through in Babylon
Friends, I wish to speak,
but they have cut out my tongue.
So I fumble...
Instead,
I hear your words, they are strong,
and your passion true.
However, it is the content of which,...
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Categories:
dunbar, abortion, allah, america, angel, anger, appreciation, atheist,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
dunbar, friend, heaven, kiss,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day My Life ChangedThe day my life changed when I was seventeen, ...
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Categories:
dunbar, dad, food, friend, hurt, life, marriage, sister,
Form:
Free verse