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My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
My 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: eloquence, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II


This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...

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Categories: eloquence, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV



Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm...

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Categories: eloquence, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form: Rhyme
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm benevolence...

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Categories: eloquence, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form: Free verse
Rumi Translation: the Field
The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the soul lazes in such lush grass 
the world is too...

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Categories: eloquence, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form: Epigram



Rumi Translation: Birdsong
Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!



I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I...

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Categories: eloquence, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Translation of Marcel Moreau's a L'Amour By T Wignesan
Translation of the Elegy: On Marceline Desbordes-Valmore - À L'amour - Poem by Marcel Moreau Translated by T. Wignesan

Reprends de ce bouquet les trompeuses couleurs,      (Take back the dubious colours...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eloquence, absence, hate, heartbreak, irony, love, passion,
Form: Quatrain
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8
The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak

The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play 
The prints of feet on rocks were wonders and arts as the...

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Categories: eloquence, culture, freedom,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                          ...

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Categories: eloquence, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Lincolns Lesson Learned
Hard driven by the embarrassment,
                              ...

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Categories: eloquence, america, beautiful, blessing, community, integrity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I See You Looking At Me- Collab With Dm
I see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there where you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What is...

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Categories: eloquence, absence, lost love, passion, relationship, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I See You Looking At Me - Collab With Em
I see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to  caress
where your lips loved to roam
there were you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What...

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Categories: eloquence, forgiveness, joy, lost love, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Love, My Hope, My Goddess
My Love, my Hope, my Goddess there can be no words formed by mortal lips sufficient to proclaim the glory which lived in me the season your love bloomed so completely within my life. My...

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Categories: eloquence, heartbreak, loneliness, lost love, love, muse, pain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Basil the Bogomil
Basil the Bogomil and his good friends were preaching the truth in all its light, about Jesus Christ’s mercy in the world’s pitch darkness. Though they harmed no man or creature, asking for no riches,...

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Categories: eloquence, betrayal, friendship, history, jesus, prejudice, religious, truth,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Neglecting Top and Bottom Lines
I worry we co-invest in big private and public corporate assault
on Earth,
on environmentalism,
on longer-term ecologic.

Really, honey?
That's too bad.
Why not also see long-term assault
as the unintended outcome of short-term neglect
of cooperative care-giving,
healthy nurturing behavior,
Golden Rule economic...

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Categories: eloquence, destiny, earth, earth day, hate, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS
If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eloquence, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Is This
IS THIS...?             Poem 8/17/

Written for Jim Eslinger , 37-year anniversary

What are these specks we must trudge over, 
Transplanting ourselves from one wilderness to
Another?...

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Categories: eloquence, christian, earth, nature, time,
Form: Free verse
Bogu Qaghan's Conversion To Manichaeism
The Uyghur Empire’s ruler where the sun rarely blessed

Travelled to the Northern bank of the Luo in contemplation

And stayed in a tomb for three days after battling Yan

Thus, four angels of the Faith of Mani...

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Categories: eloquence, deep, education, history, religion, religious, sun, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Self-Knowledge
Oh, Apollo,* son of Zeus,
How could, a simple man as I, your divine command- to know myself-
Will ever be able to realize
When
Fruitless, so far, any efforts of mine have turned out to be,
Even though- ashamed...

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Categories: eloquence, self, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To a Public Prosecutor, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Un Magistrat De Boue
To a Public Prosecutor or a Judge of Mud*, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s : A un magistrat de boue*

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eloquence, judgement, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Building Wisdom's Temple
Oh, Apollo,* son of Zeus,
How could, a simple man as I, your divine command- to know myself-
Will ever be able to realize
When
Fruitless, so far, any efforts of mine have turned out to be,
Even though- ashamed...

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Categories: eloquence, god, men, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Quest For Self-Knowledge
Oh, Apollo,* son of Zeus,
How could, a simple man as I, your divine command- to know myself-
Will ever be able to realize
When
Fruitless, so far, any efforts of mine have turned out to be,
Even though- ashamed...

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Categories: eloquence, god, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Words Pale
I thought you the Master of Expression
               Your verbal dexterity
     Word play, a rarity: perfection
  ...

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Categories: eloquence, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
For Laura
My best friend, 
Through shining days and endless nights I remember our times, when we laughed and played as if nothing mattered. If I could just make you that happy again. You are beauty and...

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Categories: eloquence, beautiful, beauty, dedication, devotion, friendship, me, pain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Haunted Holloween
It is the magic held within the darkness, the whispering of the night winds,
Echoing through haunted graveyards, cast are thus ancient spells, illuminated
Beneath the harvest full moon, in this eerie landscape the underworld is 
Released,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eloquence, dark, evil, gothic, imagery, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things