Long Glees Poems

Medieval Poem V

A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.

2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...

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Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
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 my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...

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Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

(excerpt)
He who granted me life...

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The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

He who granted me life created this sun
and...

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The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

He who granted me life created this...

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CRYPTIC CALLS:
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The night called out to him
A man of plane fleet
Gloved in illusion of machete and strength
To beat out from the web of sleep
And answer the howling cryptic calls:

Cryptic calls of hooting owls and chirping...

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Held captive, letters are chained to the imagination encapsulated in my ideas. 
 Letters unite, forming words that flood my thoughts, forcing the chains to rust. 
 Words infest my mind with euphonious voices, whispering...

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As a weary rambler, I'm nearby and resting. 
With arousing, he grasps his ecstatic settling. 
His withered bones are currently lively. 
It's been done multiple times formerly.

Bequests themselves with musings to meditate. 
His danger is...

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A WISH COME TRUE
The essence of the life is nothing but heaven
It isn’t mere heaven but feels to be hell even
Because there are many ups and downs
We may have to trounce all these for crowns!

In...

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This is a poem I wrote for the Crazy Christmas Carol member contest.
It is in reference to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. Hope you have some laughs!



Santa The Fat-Bellied Stranger


You know Batman and Robin
and Shakespeare...

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What shall I see when I see a picture of you 
Frame against rainbow of eternity?
I dream of you ... upon the canvas of my heart ...
Will your eyes melt the sonwflakes, do they
Like the...

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Tales and gales come during summer leaves
Still yet the cold wind blows without warning
Flitting between rightly adorning 
Wondering the heart continually grieves
Ashes and dust the head is shorned
Grinning through the teardrop mile she sees
Pains of...

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Flowing river’s beating drums
Open up all of mind’s doors 
Overwhelming internal spurts 
Give rise to verses of sentimental words

Big and small rocks in the river 
Show foundations of natural graceful water structures 
Snowy foam on...

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Snowflake… 
Deep winter 
Ex………...hale
Into thick night sleep
While autumn, intoxicate,
Dreams drunk
Dizzily bubbles with old fruit, long ferment
Veiled under frosty top, 
Poppity pop pop!

…Huzza! 

Faintly, two flakes, float and flutter
On east current Sibir born
Sleeping land, Tatar fire
Divinely...

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Slither
me slips me beasty heart
beneath a piece of guise,
and pens some page of wisdoms
to place before they's eyes,
and with they's gaze diverted, 
me dons me cloak of thief's,
and slithers in and steals they's love,
and leaves...

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In the dusting of springtime squeeze
Sweet-scented of yesterday glees. 
Recall of rose bloom and clear days,
Of mirth and warmth in many ways.

Meek breeze bears the whiff of ripe life,
Fresh beginnings and cease of strife.
The world...

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The Song of Hope, it sings aloud.
But, it’s all to me but a broken sound.

The Song of Hope is a tired tune,
At least to me and not to you,
It sings of good and future new;
But,...

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We are delighted dudes
Have no ill- attitudes
                    
        ...

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The tides will ebb.
The moon will go.
This culture is not ours forever.

"The wind will cease to blow"
The mountain shall come low
And these vacations sure, will be over soon.
This culture is not ours forever

No. The merry...

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A Dracula sandwich if you please
The witch ordered with enormous ease
Gargoyle waiter felt a sudden sneeze
Baby goblin’s laughing with double glees

Mean Mama Goblin put them on her knees
She shook them hard, until there was a...

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She is a small girl from a small town 
Holding her dreams and her needs 
On the ground where she needs to fight 
For her every wish to come true 
And prove her love to...

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We two, beneath the shadow of the trees
Where daisies and wild flowers deck the ground.
The fairies of forever sing their glees. 
What greater love in life does there abound?
A brighter view, sunlight upon posies, 
Bears...

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You ask me if you are good enough 
And I tell you that you are
You tell me you are not good as the others
And I tell you that true beauty lies in between
It is neither...

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