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April's Babbling Foolishness
(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.) 

And she smells good without keeping all ...

Beef, sitting lonely on that lies floating on the tufted floor. "Surely,"...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, art, computer, crazy, food, funny, horror, humor,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan

33.  on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form: Free verse
Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2

The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
 
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
 
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,

the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
 
the face in the...

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Categories: excerpts, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
See
See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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Categories: excerpts, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form: Sonnet
Albert Einstein Poems
ALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS

These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...



A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the...

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Categories: excerpts, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form: Free verse



First They Came For the Muslims
First they came for the Muslims

after Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...

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Categories: excerpts, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form: Free verse
Enough
Enough!
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!

Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...

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Categories: excerpts, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form: Light Verse
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great. 

Lament to the...

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Categories: excerpts, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi

Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable houses, 
who return each evening to find
warm food, 
welcoming faces...

consider whether this...

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Categories: excerpts, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel
"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form: Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)

These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew. 



Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch

I...

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Categories: excerpts, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form: Sonnet
The Exaltation of Inanna
The Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts 
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...

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Categories: excerpts, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan

Le vingt-troisième légal

pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau
plein du respect (et) de la confiance les enfants naïfs dans la foi
la gouvernance nécessaire  ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, america, anti bullying, anxiety, military, war,
Form: Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...

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Categories: excerpts, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form: Free verse
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...

Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...

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Categories: excerpts, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
                      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets, remembrance day, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inspirational Blessings and Greetings For the New Year
Greetings to each of you my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Please read these seventeen blessings rendered for you in God's grace:

I. May God’s love for the new year grant you joy and inspiration overcoming...

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Categories: excerpts, bible, blessing, devotion, inspirational, jesus, love, wisdom,
Form: Pastoral
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and Quotes
LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES

These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis...

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Categories: excerpts, art, eulogy, nature, poems, poetry, silence, spring,
Form: Epigram
Move on over ole Joe
Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: excerpts, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Surviving Chronic Eclipses
I was on my ambivalent fence
about who to watch watch the solar eclipse,
my alcoholic allies
or the designer THC corporate investors.

Wherever it was,
we read excerpts from two permaculture designers,
to get our minds ready for this great...

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Categories: excerpts, culture, gender, health, humor, integrity, math, seasons,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, england, poetry, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bible and Our Privileges
"It is known that the Bible, in its hundreds of different translations, is the most widely distributed book in human history. The bible has been enormously influential, and not only among the religious communities that...

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Categories: excerpts, bible, books, christian, creation, devotion, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Random Excerpts - 2: Ice In My Eyes Smoke In Yours, a Novel
May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excerpts, growing up, international, student, universe, world war
Form: Free verse
Reaping Short Terms Benefits
Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.

Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...

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Categories: excerpts, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

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