Long Grim Poems
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Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
grim, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
grim, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
grim, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
grim, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
grim, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
grim, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 65 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiv 2 : the Family VacationIt was at this point 11 o'clock
At night. Damian Left Molly and
Checked on the seven. Everybody
Was fine. He returned to
Business. Molly was no longer
Afraid she knew she was in the...
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Categories:
grim, 7th grade, beach, beauty, child, grandmother, parents,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
grim, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 98 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Teenager Invaders MisbehaviorLate evening March 2045
The Teenagers were adventurous
They were venturing. DJ and
Damali Trech were both 18 years
Old. The Copy Cat Club was the
Place to be for teens. It mostly
Served...
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Categories:
grim, confidence, courage, emotions, father daughter, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval 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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Categories:
grim, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 114 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Godfrey and Barrington's Fiesta and Food Reperation ShiftDamian was on the tele-video
conference with various Prestigious
Proper people of distinction. The US
Vice president was on Skype along
With Secretary of State. He spoke
With Russia's top diplomat, Valeiry
Sergei Shonikov, South African president
Holu...
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Categories:
grim, color, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Winter Awakens My CareWinter 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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Categories:
grim, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
grim, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
grim, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
grim, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto TranslationPremise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When just the midway of my...
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Categories:
grim, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
grim, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto XivBecause the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.
Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...
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Categories:
grim, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
grim, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
grim, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Comedy Translation Canto XiiWas the place where we climbing down the bank
Then arrived, alpine and, for what was there
Such as, that any eyesight would be shrank.
Similar to landslide that in side bare
Before Trento the Adige just smote,
Or for...
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Categories:
grim, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
Canto Xviii Hell TranslationIn hell is called Malebolge a site
Completely made of ferrous color stones
As almost all the rim around looks quite.
Of the malignant field the middle zones
Are the seat for a well much wide and...
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Categories:
grim, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
grim, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
grim, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The BookShhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everybody...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes, sure we did, and so what?...
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Categories:
grim, bible, books, conflict, wisdom, writing, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative