Long Goths Poems

Medieval Poems



Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...

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Deor's Lament

(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...

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Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,

whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially after dirty deeds done... 
generating thunderstruck ac/dc current
hmm... maybe due comeuppance 
being scammed to the hilt)
suspicion...

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12 hours of excruciating labor pangs have Sacagawea breathing
into the face of Death,
as she violently shakes her head back and forth, teeth clenched,
sweat boiling and eyes furious
it seems to me that she is detetmined to...

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Under the colorful leaves 
Of my Poet-tree
The Autumn breeze
Blows one off and it spirals slowly
Down for me To read

I pick it up off the ground
And looking around
I hear no sound
On a big mushroom I sit...

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Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife
whose piercing deliverance...,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,

I cherish her pricelessness, how nice,
a beacon complementing/
supplementing homelife,
who will forever be with me
even during our (mine
atheistic...

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I’m watching a movie about Oskar Schindler
Who I assumed was just another profligate swindler
A hedonistic man if ever there was one
Great in business but involved with despicable scum

Self serving, self righteous, and all so shiny
Making...

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Roses are black and violets are grey,
                    And candy hearts say ‘Yuck!’ and ‘Ew!’
  ...

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Romanus country
Romania to us
Iron curtain frontier
Dismantled by fuss
 
Like us all invaded
But by Goths and the Huns
Typical past history
Populations on the run
The Ottoman Empire, absorbed their souls
A free Romania the ultimate goal
 
Modern Romania has...

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I was there when old Troy burned,
all the babies I dashed and hurled,
slayed Hector and Achilles,
made Priam scream in agony.

I was there at the Fall of Rome,
snuffed a light half the world had known,
slammer the...

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Some claimed that Camelot was noble,
a place built upon the stony ground
of good-intentions,
it was new and fangled,
it was progressive
in a time of little progress.

I have seen it, I was there,
always there was the choking fog
of...

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Villanelle: French Gourmand once sailed to the Isle of Ewe
  
     Dedicated to the great French actor, Off Course!

French Gourmand once sailed to the Isle of Ewe
Must you invite high...

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DUST UPON THE STAIR
My life careers on so fast, the years and people fly by to who knows where,
times I had have been the best so I'll remember them but forget the bad.
Isn’t that the...

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I'll look for you
in the deep, cobalt blue
of a mountain lake,
or the startled crake 
of a moorhen,
flushed from its nest,
or the idle word, said in jest
over a steaming mug,
as we huddled and shrugged
off the cold...

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Written on papyrus in the presence of different entities,
Thousands words written in Egyptian on a stone slab laid cryptic piece,
Dreaming realm of hallow wrath plague ridden disease,
Helms, spears, and tyrannical vengeance no apostle increase,
If the...

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Inexplicable words,
Wild minds,
Strange emotions...
A brutal heart,

Butterflies and thorns,
Angels and demons,
Mermaids and vampires,
Lilies and Goths,

An aggressive world,
Filled with beauty,
That no eyes can see,
But this beauty is right in front of me,

A streaking shadow
That emerges through the...

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To some it represents the darkness,
for in it color is absent.
So forbidding...
It can be frightening

For many it represents evil,
it symbolizes death, the monsters and the devil.
Yet it was made by God for good.
It is a...

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-Most people
-When ever they hear Goth
-They think dark, devil worshipers, 
-Who is known to be a trouble maker
-But that's not the case
-Goth is a life stile 
-Its who you are.
-Being Goth is just something beautiful
-It...

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I'm not the girl that falls for the jock
I'm not the girl that roots for the team
Or the girl that looks down on the geeks
And the Goths
And the drama crowd
I'm not the girl that judged...

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UP AND DOWN
So here I am at a crossroads in my life, 
not knowing where to go or what to do.
I don’t know where my love life lies, 
who will I meet and settle down...

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Another rainy Glasgow day
And I'm stuck in this train
With the rich kids from Hutchie

Bound for work
With a heavy heart
And they're all mocking me
In uniforms so smart

Confident and cocky
With the world at their feet
I wonder if...

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Squalid were those days of thuggish delight
When the fat land's spirit the small Goths stole.
Joy was a thirst slaked, forever a night,
In that corpulent desert of mean soul.
 
But pastel virtue slowly starves a man
To...

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I stand alone on guard
Upon this ancient wall
I see the city's now aflame

Rome has raised 
its final curtain call
This world will never be the same

The Goths have crested
The seventh hill
They killed my son and my...

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When the doodle
of the people opine
and the piss spore
squeeze,
there will be fields and tundras
in the deep hollow of
moonlight winery ...

Scope of voids
the crazy ones will say;
Reproaches from satires,
will say the maindenhair ...
But from the bottom...

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Descendent we are
forefather’d as we are
(not all obviously),
from the Germanic tribes.

Around the year zero
we emerged out of those dark primordial
winter forests,
fully formed and tribal.
Not to get too historical, however.

The fun part is
we get to choose...

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