Long Hazily Poems

I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...

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Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX

Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch

The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...

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Commodities calmly caressing. Calling carrots. Calling capers. Calamity is not an injested window wiper nor a window sill so dare to jump off a pinnacle to declare justice. Arachnid akmed. Duty done. Swerved to serve....

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Elegy on the Death of Vicente Aleixandre, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Elegia en la muerte de Vicente Aleixandre

(Born in 1923, Carlos Bousono, a renowned prize-winning Spanish poet and eminent theoretician on the aesthetics...

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As I am slowly fading away 
My body grows weaker & weaker each day.
Injections into my arms
then into my other bodily parts.

A needle been filled only with poison 
That's why with this poem my words...

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As morning's veil did lift its gentle hand
On my first call to ingratiate with the land
I fathered that night to dawn's early stand
And hit the roadway, where my journey's plan
Did unfold like a map, with...

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Where have all the words gone?
It has been more than ten days,
since my last write of a one-liner poem.
Here I am lost, searching, searching
for words for nothing comes to mind.

My spirit is lost in a...

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Swimming under the surface of the Pacific
Past the border of the ocean
Where the two meet, brown and blue.
Met by tiny swimming jewels here,
Living within the tall crystals,
The ecosystem of crystals
Covering the ocean floor.
Dazzles of Ruby-red,...

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The mobile is ringing.  It gets closer and closer, and louder and louder.  It has finally arrived at her ear canal.

She meticulously rolls on her left side, she hazily reads the screen. ...

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When you have passed nonplussed
by rumours
   of ovens
      of being burned alive by the horde
calcinated bones in torrid ashes
teeth without a name
pebbles in the sands of hate waves

When...

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It seems difficult to witness the last moments 
Of your near and dear ones
But in reality I witnessed
The last calm heaves of my father
Without the slightest agony

My father
Lain on the hospital bed
Eyes half closed
With only...

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Puttin’ on the Ritz

She went to London where the gold-paved streets
glittered not in rainy foggy mornings.
In vain she knocked on doors in search of fame.

Uttered from beyond thick lighted cigars,
idle promises drifted hazily,
like suffocating smoke...

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The Golden Stool

 Offer me the sacrosanct golden stool
 To rest my bottom,
 Cursed! And of course abominable it is
 The Asantihene possesses it,
 I will rather then be banish from being;
 And become a...

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Aroma lingers
within the encasing bastion,
aisle upon aisle haunts the ancient catacomb
that is home to the decisive many.

User friendly ecstasy
depending on Fahrenheit fifty two,
this golden age to cherish?
Hypothermia guaranteed, with anything less.

Inward the soul is searched,
waves...

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AN IMPOSSIBLE FIX

       I journey through the woodland
    Hazily I gaze at the shadows of an- 
         ...

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The Sex Obsession

He was in his middle years, a retired seafarer living far
from the oceans of his youth and dreams had drowned 
in swells of a restless, life.
He lived a slow life, walking his dog...

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A Pensioner
An octogenarian - he moved to the retirement home
which promised all-year sun, blue sky, and sedate sea.

A grey, balding, and stooped figure, 
his gait is far from firm as he walks.
Panoramic vistas, crushed-cardboard like...

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What if I told you the sky was purple 
and that the clouds were really a dark green 
could you imagine the luscious possibility 
Or is your mind a reality check machine 

Take a trip...

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Crawling on my floor. 
I stare hazily at the intricacies of the wood grain and realize slowly all the messes in my way. 

Curl up, holding myself, prepare yourself darling life is a beautiful maze....

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Curling crests cassessing coastlines
backwash bumping beach breakers.
screeching Seagulls squark and scream
mocking maritime merrymakers.

Burning boogers brave blisterd backs
scorched surfers seek shoreline shade, 
urbane under umpteen umberellas,
peacocks posed in a parasol parade.

Drifting dunes delight deserted
lovers, languorously lounging,...

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The Sieve of Time



Cast ashore,
along the banks of time,

whirling through the passing years,
clinging to my futile scribbles set in rhyme,


Cast ashore,
thrust into an unrehearsed pantomime,

clenching slivers of joy as weariness descends,
lulled into a peaceful slumber...

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Happy Days

Each is given breath, above soil, toil and glory;
mouths expel  a tirade,behind a masquerade.
Each born pure in heart, soon shattered;
broken jagged pieces maybe scattered.
Each feels the beats hidden deep inside;
It struggles to love,...

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Happy Days

Each is given breath,
above soil, toil and glory,
mouths expel a tirade,
behind a masquerade.

Each born pure in heart,
soon shattered; broken 
jagged pieces maybe scattered.
Each feels the beats hidden deep inside.

It struggles to love, but rages!...

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At the shoreline
the sea meets the sand 
            in transparent kiss 
       then draws back to itself 
in...

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MERCILESS   CITY

Grimy city blocks worn and cold are lost
In rusted steel and roots of permafrost. 
Faintly emerging from the gloom hazily misted,
The crane’s spire is a ship’s mast listed 
In an ice-fog off...

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