Long Enraptures Poems

The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...

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This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...

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The meadows clearing....

Surrounded by the forest, afore the mountains sculpted by time

Majestic splendors, rising, beneath the blueish skies

With cascading waters, of virgins white melting snow

Heavens unveilings, before all of our eyes

These gifts unto the living,...

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you are imagination____which is fascination turned Geometric Shape (the line 
connects_follow
it for it never ends) the alphabet forms itself, you see, each time the mouth opens 
and curves 
around in-between through each and every letter....

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"50 Words for Poe: Eclipsed"




Eclipse
Moon’s Silvery shadow 
kisses Sun’s Golden coronation 
at the point where tame fear meets Wild’s strong divination


Moon’s Silvery shadow
melts the Sun’s Golden frown with cool blunderbust
at the point where lupin drinks...

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Would I ever have him?
She weighed with a heavy sigh
Underneath that shadowy brim
Is a pair of benevolent eyes
Eyes full with memories of
A past that remains unspoken
If I were ever to lose his love
My heart would...

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Thy'est control breathing thus capture must i thee air
It sooths thee as thus melodically time goes on...
Next thus will be sleeping, & thy subconsious will take over for thy every breath until thee again is...

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There she sits upon that boulder day after sorrowful day, reading a book about fairytales and dreaming of maybe one day
Her beautiful hair reaches down to her perch upon that seat, and there she reads...

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Adam of Earth

The curvature of his smile 
A quiet strength of gentleness within the eyes
When I glance upon his face
 
The waves of his arms flowing to his majestic hands
A profound peace that enraptures our...

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(Dedication: For all mothers everywhere.)
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A girl becomes a woman
On a life journey path


Life unfolds a love affair
Fate ushers a soul mate


Woman and man conjure
To journey side by side


Destiny and fate stage bliss
Love enraptures dreams


Now for...

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Autumn Fire

About the time August loses ardor – melting into her – she awakens!
Unabashed is she, Autumn’s uncommon goddess, unfolding herself for all to see.
Thrilling to wind’s tempting tempo, she flutters, touching the twilight tangerine.
Unflaggingly,...

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Rainy Day People

There are the rainy day savers
those who never lose sight
of their emotional shore
choosing to sequester away
any possibility of a morsel of life’s celebrations
happening within this day…or any day
for surely the sun will come...

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DESERVE

Deserve- that in which we use to critique our life's ways
a way to hold back our existence 
to project a negative
and cease the positive intake

Deserve - the breath we don't take 
as life is critical...

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Albert Francis Simmons; in Detroit, Michigan, was born,
His robustness, with intelligence, nature did adorn;
Though, worked as a high-ranking Secret Service official,
His moral sense became a matter so prejudicial...!

Burnt, like charcoal, by Jason Wynn, his service,...

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The Distant Flame

A paramount flame enraptures to rule,
unearthing the spicy array of my senses,
the reverie of spring, cautiously subdued,
the syncopated beat, three steps beyond pretentious.
Longing for that vision seen only in glimpses,
beyond the tide of...

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Upon the stillness of Big Sur clouds
High atop the silent summits 
My solitude lies with sages
In this place of heaven
Endeared
To come to peace 
In the ruins of the moon

Laying my body to rest
My eyes have...

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Could someone take me out of the darkness?
Hopelessness enraptures my mind again...
I'm sitting on this bench...thinking regret
I'm just.......
Drifting away 
There's so much to learn out there
Somewhere in the abyss,
There must be a rope of hope...
Hanging...

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Oh what misery!

The heart- 
an indigent and feral beast
kept in lock down
in an inner cage
for my own good

What treachery dwells
within that creature!

It's wiles, 
it's devious nature
eludes my control

and entices me
to act on
base instincts...

that leave me
in...

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As it enraptures me 

Suddenly there is a light,
Something ahead,
I run faster,
Faster, faster, faster!

Finally I reach the light
Only to discover
That I have landed in a dark cathedral
Filled with the faint light of candles

Why am I...

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Saved me with your love

When this crazy world, just don't make sense,
And the daggers wound without pretense,
You came running in my defense,
and saved me with your love

As the cool breeze rushes through the trees,
and whispers...

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Her eye's bless me with tears. Her skin graces me with substance. Her hair is shimmering with the glint of sunlight coiled in it's curls. A voice of silence in all it's harmony pacifies my...

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Love indeed is a many splendoured thing
to know this you've got to believe
so you're heart has real tingle inside
makes your lover always want to cleave

Look at these two lovers holding hands
they have no other thoughts...

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Your Beauty

Your beauty’s rank a birthright
Each feature among the best
From crown to sole a delight
But a few exceed the rest

Eyes even time enraptures
So ageless within and through 
Each gilded iris captures 
A pale bloom with...

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About the time August loses ardor, he melts into Autumn; she awakens!
Unabashed is she, this uncommon goddess, unfolding herself for all to see.
Thrilling to wind’s tempting tempo, she flutters, touching the twilight tangerine.
Unflaggingly, she undulates...

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This world is full of hopelessness
darkness enraptures it all around
hatred and evil evident to all
sad hearts burdened by sin abound
 
But there’s hope in midst of darkness
they’re a few who still believe
who look with their...

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