Long Fluttery Poems

Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...

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A 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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My hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...

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My mind is burning, blazing, turning
With doubts and irrational drivels
My heart is livid and hardened
For it freezes in the potentials of disappointment
Of failure, downfall, and impending death
In ceasefires of never mind, and never more 

My...

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I see your face and my heart begins to race.

The sight of your pure gold smile races around my head,
Like flittery, fluttery butterflies.
Butterflies that race down my throat and linger in my stomach,
As I see...

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(I found this hiding on the web -- something I wrote
maybe 30--40 years ago...and I thought, how marvelous!
Too good not to share with Soup.)

I thought to tell her a bedtime story—
A father’s duty
A parent’s joy;
And...

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“The known always changes; knowing never changes.”
? BY Rupert Spira

A super brown and fluttery bird greets me.
Tap at my window and ask, "Didn't you see?"
It chimes, drawing my insight into a refrain.
My flesh is older,...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwoxOpnN7g
O'er here is that ok ? asks the Angel with her quiet ways  
as she lights the wax candle and rises the temperature in the room 
She takes us on a journey of escape...

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Fallen needles soften passage into the forest.
Precise footsteps beckon her to him,

Like a portrait of symmetry in motion.
A kaleidoscope discloses awe-inspiring beauty,
As sunlight freckles tease fluttery fronds,
And stillborn dew splashes spongy mounded moss.

The green velvet...

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"A Duel"
By Rachel Heffington

Long ago in a valley green,
Where a thriving hamlet once had been
Was a rubb-ly castle, hidden well
By maples tall, in a shady dell.
The penants, fluttery once, and gay,
Now hung in shreds- a...

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The honeymoon is not over embracing love
by capturing the core of every fiber,
weaving tender hearts tighter and tighter.
We are touched with sweet melting honey
that echoes of our love through golden rings
in strife and funny rainy...

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Interesting regarding a walnut. Pacing perking perching. Wow. In a hooped skirt hopping. Hoping shell just keeps safe. Much leaping many leaves. And chiming is neither timing nor temperature gauge. A Guatemalan flying multi coloured...

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A true sense of love isn't a fluttery feeling,
It isn't easily enamored or your heart thumping or your thoughts reeling.
It isn't that someone has captured your heart or captivated your mind,
It isn't that you adore...

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 Springtime put a spring in my step
Bluebird brought bright bars of music next
I saw her sip at the faithful fountain; sing soulfully
As I prayed: wishing the world was well, more certain
About the value of...

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In the bible it says"wives submit to your husbands"
 And "husbands love your wives"
 I would sit and read this often pondering over the words. 
Puting all the peices together as if my life was...

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Fluttery eyes
Shallow deep breathe
Darkness bedding
Midnight nighttime
Passions end marveled lonely quench
Thought of sunset
Flung temporary
Evening never skying
Sun is falling out of view
Stepped a night-vision skyline

Where’s the sun going
Don’t GO
Sleepy tho!
And the dark never investigating
Fluttery eyes
Shallow deep breathe
Darkness...

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Hypochondrial Delusion

A mind corrupted canker
Of cystic self failure
Even gastric anorexia
And fluttery throb to alight the fear
An adrenaline generated tachycardia
That matches respiration
And causes hyperventilation
With invasive pacy rhythm
And palpitating violation
To anxious infarction
 In schizoid arrest

A hepatic paranoia...

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Paper hearts and candy;
Fluttery lace is dandy.
But the ribbon around my heart isn’t brand new;
It’s worn, frayed, torn and threadbare through and through.
Not a cheery valentine I offer to you,
But a glimpse of the hard...

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I remember it like yesterday
When the stick finally turned to blue
And I climbed back in bed, whispering:
“Love, our greatest desire has come true!”

Never have I felt so wonderful
Never sickness, just exultation
Those first fluttery kicks and...

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Lovely, rich dark purple lilacs bloom in early spring
Fragrant spring air decorated by vibrant purple gems
Bright yellow striped tulips emerge on Kelly green stems
Magenta petunias attract a hummingbird’s fluttery wings 

Peony’s vibrant hot pink flowers...

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As I am a humble I'll be there
Like in a fluttery butterfly in the air

I'm a whisper a still small voice
Giving you totally Freedom's choice

Captive your imagination shall be
Glorious Horizons you shall seek

In all alone...

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As I gaze at my gorgeous lunch salad
sings to me a sonorous love ballad!
What’s dazzling about temporal food
that calls for this surreal mood?
The melting silk of shredded cheddar cheese
on the sharp crunch of leafy romaine...

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My favorite hummingbirds appear in early Spring
With fast fluttery wings and soft chirps, they sing
And rich emerald and ruby feathers so bright
Seeing them makes my heart skip with delight

Powerful tiny creatures seen in a flash
Flying...

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Bringing out all the little tricks in her bag wanting to impress and edge up in 
standing of her circle of influence
having left behind the squares of preponderance
She laughed aloud at herself before anyone 
else...

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BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY

loving fluttery
fluttering in the breeze
Alas the wind calls your name
As yet you fly on
Citing and kissing the breeze,
The candidate is ideal,
And so are you.

BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY

Orchids are white,
Ghost ones are rare,
The pattern is wavy,
And so...

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