Long Erased Poems
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Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
erased, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
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:
erased, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
erased, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
erased, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
erased, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
erased, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T WignesanTranslation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
erased, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I PromiseI promise…I promise I won’t desert you
This hardship you’re facing at the moment is temporary
Tonight…tonight, I will show you love so true
By wiping your tears of sorrow and showing you tomorrow happily
I wake up to...
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Categories:
erased, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The MirrorThe Mirror
When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be. A little lost girl that was so abused and so misused, so ashamed of who she...
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Categories:
erased, change, child abuse, endurance, family, growing up,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Verdict. NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...
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Categories:
erased, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
erased, history,
Form:
Free verse
Sun ThiefOnce upon a time, there lived a boy called Simon.
He was an ordinary boy who did what ordinary nine year old
boys do: collecting bugs and putting them in jars,
speaking to imaginary friends, riding a bike...
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Categories:
erased, conflict, fantasy, imagery, mystery, myth, power,
Form:
Narrative
Psychotic TripPSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Feeling really beat, I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...
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Categories:
erased, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Rhyme
He Was TheirObey The Cross That Jesus Suffered Although It Will Cost All You Claim As Yours !
Each of us must learn to take a part in the dance be part of Christ's vine by his design
Although...
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Categories:
erased, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
erased, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Breathless, Travis MorrisonSuicide, euthanasia
I never thought I’d be the one to go down like this
But I wanted to have control in the way I was sent out of this world
Instead of kept barely alive, pointless.
My parents refused...
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Categories:
erased, books, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Mehmet Akif Ersoy TranslationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
erased, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Bits of My Own Broken I'LyezetteI know it, I'm a bit more than broken
I wish I could be more in your face
instead, I hide behind nice
away there in a corner by myself
I want to be seen
I want to be...
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Categories:
erased, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Turkish Poetry Translations ITurkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes...
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Categories:
erased, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Small Mutinies
"Small Mutinies"
So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky
cashmere blankets
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles
bleating from the
chirping crickets
and frog croaking
symphonies
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...
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Categories:
erased, halloween, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Connected To Last Entry
...while true feminists say that they are feminists because they care for the well-being of women, the modern feminist group, True/Active Feminism does exactly the opposite. They use the form of "dis-pair"...
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Categories:
erased, art,
Form:
Other
Blueprint For a KingdomYou have fixed all movements within time
every trails destination have you outlined
no creature can operate ...
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Categories:
erased, analogy, bible, creation, faith, life, paradise, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Whispers Of HellDISCLAIMER : THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE
IN ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE IN FRANCE WHICH TOOK PLACE
ON JUNE 1OTH 1944
TO MY READERS , " SOME LINES IN THIS POEM ARE GRAPHIC , AND
SOME MAY FIND...
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Categories:
erased, death, god, history, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Visit, Part Ii("The Visit", Part II)
How can she not know I'm standing so near?
Perhaps, she's expecting the same to reappear
Like before after her being to me kind and sweet,
Because of fear, I made a quick and hasty...
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Categories:
erased, abuse, horse, love, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022
The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
ideally yielding ultimate resultant checkmate
opposing men captured for the queen to use.
Jurassic throwback terrible...
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Categories:
erased, angst, endurance, february, how i feel, humanity,
Form:
Free verse