Long Hermann Poems

Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...

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“Unicorns are Us” 

You can only imagine
the furore 
when magick
hit the score
the Party, not impressed,
was not for witches
too big for their
britches on brooms,
said all the high-brow
cultural dignitories
and low-strung 
toad hall politicians
pacing around the room;
so all...

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1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...

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"In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the...

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"50 Words for Poe: Rasputin"



The Rat was buried in the Pet Cemetery
His name was Rasputin

She had been fond of him for some time
feeding him morsels 
every now and again
tickling his whiskers occasionally -
until he decided...

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 Eye the fabulist fabelist maker of dreams for ewe still remember the poem eye 
wrote where eye mentioned the fact that eye think they are liners...

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The sun sank into rusty chains
Ancient Mesopotamian constellations begin to spin
Shadows in the bushes
Sidewalks walking from the back
Cetoniinae trapped in glass
Your gaze runs through the sky
yes, like Schelling's rose
Tesla cars crossing the border
The dust of...

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...a tribute to Hermann Hesse and his novel 'Narziss Und Goldmund.'

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...a tribute to Hermann Hesse and his novel 'Narziss Und Goldmund.'


Two friends in early childhood when their lives were worry free,
each pursued his own direction to fulfill his destiny.
One was tempted by the devil to...

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Hence no surprise... yes
recherché rhetorical flourish(es) impress,
yet mine deliberate vocabulist predilection,
I haint gonna stress
aforementioned quirk
also includes zero apr

(annual percentage rate),
may be subject with excess
sieve jejune ennui pullulating Kudzu like
indecipherable haphazard gobbledygook mess
abhorrent brashness claptrap discouraging
further...

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The other day I wrote a poem after being surprised to meet……
as I began my morning walk…a guitar stain in the street.

Well, it appears looking that a stain in the street is similar to looking...

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About the digital age and loss of human fidelity and meaning 

South core stabilized after all the smoke had cleared.   

None could understand how such occurrences could be part of every day life,...

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Had I been given 24

24 hours, 24 minutes, 24 seconds.

To look into your eyes

With so much disguise

Only to tell you of your smiles

That took my day on a journey of many miles.

Had I been given...

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Tuesday Lobsang Rampa made
tea so his Third Eye could open
to see dreams fortifying in aspiring hearts
as they reach for the next beat in their comings and goings

Socrates played the lyre by
banging on the strings while
humming...

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Altdorf is a lovely village along the Reuss.
It has beautiful scenery that is choice.
What nerve these Austrians have in this town.
I think that Hermann Gessler is a clown!
He puts his hat on top of a...

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Feldeinsamkeit (“Solitude in a Field” or "Through the Fields of Solitude")

by Hermann Allmers
translation by David B. Gosselin with Michael R. Burch 

Peacefully, I rest in the tall green grass
For a long time only gazing as...

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...inspired by 'Piktor's Metamorphoses' by Hermann Hesse


Stepping through a vale she spied an oak,
its branches scratching heaven's glow 
and anchored to the earth its twisted roots
clawed deeply through the soil below.

Embracing now its weathered bark...

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