Long Goethe Poems
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The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
goethe, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
goethe, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Eternal RecurrenceETERNAL RECURRENCE*
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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE
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1.
Once upon a time,
The Lord...
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Categories:
goethe, future, life, , atheist,
Form:
Epic
The Faces of Man
"The Faces of Man"
The faces of Man
transformative
held in the hand
of Mephistopheles
blood sells white and red
pontificating with two fingers
consuming greed for
want of everything
they meld into the
curves of their crooked bends
he’s come to...
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Categories:
goethe, dark, humanity, psychological,
Form:
Epic
Unquotable Quotes: Poets - XxxviUnquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965
The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...
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Categories:
goethe, creation, poetry, poets, word play, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
goethe, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Goethe or The Metamorphosis of Plants Andre Masson
Too much to know, I just don't know it
As I fumble around, just a humble poet
Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show
I just don't know it, too much to know
Answers are near, in the...
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Categories:
goethe, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
ReincarnationREINCARNATION
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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE
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1.
Each soul an ambassador was and is...
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Categories:
goethe, god, heaven, life, spiritual, god, me, longing,
Form:
Epic
Made In NeonaziaMade in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attraction
warm sand...
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Categories:
goethe, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen-Into the North-An Epic PoemPlease note that this work is meant to follow in Epic Form and will not follow commonly used grammatical rules found in Prose, such as, not following proper paragraph use. Because it is an Epic...
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Categories:
goethe, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Ode To Hope and DespairReminiscent of Dante’s Inferno,
In gloom cries today’s time: O there’s no scope
For whoso lives, abandon all the hope.
Maybe he’d reasons enough to think so.
Yet, if body’s in need of oxygen,
Human spirit too such life-force no...
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Categories:
goethe, depression, hope,
Form:
Ode
Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our timeSpeak
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you're still standing upright.
Speak, while your spirit has force.
See how, in the bright-sparking forge,...
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Categories:
goethe, dark, father, fear, sea, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Rhyme
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch IIThe Fisher
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation by Michael R. Burch
The river swirled and rippled;
nearby an angler lay,
and watched his lure with a careless eye,
like any other day.
But as he watched in a strange half-dream,
he saw...
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Categories:
goethe, dream, moon, river, song, sun, water, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch IVGefunden (“Found”)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Into the woodlands,
alone, I went.
Seeking nothing,
my sole intent.
But I saw a flower
deep in the shade
gleaming like starlight
in a still glade.
I reached down to pluck it
when...
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Categories:
goethe, bird, flower, heaven, night, pain, peace, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch I“To the Moon”
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Scattered, pole to starry pole,
glide Cynthia's mild beams,
whispering to the receptive soul
whatever moonbeams mean.
Bathing valley, hill and dale
with her softening light,
loosening from earth’s frigid chains
my...
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Categories:
goethe, boy, father, father son, heart, moon, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Croises: Once a Mother Professor and DaughterLimericks croisés : Once a Mother Professor and Daughter
for Farid & Zafir
Once (a) Mother Professor and Daughter
Came to Paris to see a Poet Mister
He...
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Categories:
goethe, humor, mother daughter,
Form:
Limerick
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch IIIPrometheus
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
obscure Your heavens, Zeus, with a nebulous haze!
and, like boys beheading thistles, decapitate oaks and alps.
yet leave me the earth with its rude dwellings
and my hut...
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Categories:
goethe, boy, children, death, earth, heart, heaven, sun,
Form:
Free verse
To My Love Part 1 TbcFar from having a nascent thought that envelops my rabid self,
Like inside of an accurate Swiss watch that had been given -
A present to presidents and diplomats from the 70’s era,
Memories in the kaleidoscope of...
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Categories:
goethe, life,
Form:
Free verse
Goethe and MeI find myself agreeing a lot with Goethe lately…
yes, I think it would be fair
to say I spend as much time on top of the world…
as I do floundering in the depths of despair.
On...
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Categories:
goethe, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Why Are We HereWritten: August 09, 2023, Why Are We Here Poetry Contest
...
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Categories:
goethe, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, dream, fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation GoetheON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading souvenirs,
I see the skulls arranged in strange ordered rows.
Who knows whose owners might...
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Categories:
goethe, best friend, body, death, friendship love, funeral,
Form:
Free verse
Goethe and Schiller translationsThese are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller...
These are selected XENIA epigrams with...
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Categories:
goethe, beauty, desire, earth, friendship, god, heaven, kiss,
Form:
Free verse
Who Dares To Take This Life From Me, Knows No Better: Parts One and Twofor Eric Mottram
"Nur wenn das Herz erschlossen,
Dann ist die Erde schön."
...
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Categories:
goethe, political, water, water,
Form:
Free verse
Zeitgeist ( Part Two )Something is very wrong here
A world monopoly, based not on human life but on financial and corporate power
Money is one of the most socially paralysing structures humanity has ever endured
“ None are more hopelessly enslaved...
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Categories:
goethe, life
Form:
Free verse
Today I Kissed a GirlToday I kissed a girl.
We kissed, in eternal meaning,
Her arms around my waist,
mine coiled around her neck.
We said goodnight, and sleep tight,
my last words. I scanned my hand,
remembering her feel, petit, taught,
Like a most...
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Categories:
goethe, love, hair, sensual,
Form:
Bio