Long Hillside Poems
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Athenian Epitaphs
Athenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
hillside, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
hillside, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
hillside, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
hillside, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
hillside, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
hillside, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be still . . . know that I am God”
So I...
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Categories:
hillside, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of the eve
This is the story of how it all happened
How...
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Categories:
hillside, fantasy, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tale of the Williwonk
The Williwonk rose from its hibernating sleep
And jumped up in joy with a sinuous leap.
Time for some mischief, he mischievously said,
I'll shake up Manvile and fill them with dread.
For such a vile creature was the...
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Categories:
hillside, children, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
True Grit
My name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of fourteen I suffered personal tragedy
When my father Frank Ross was...
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Categories:
hillside, america, death, loss, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Bad On Bad Parts 1-2-3-4-Now 5
1
We've been riding now, for days
On this dry and dusty plain
Headed to a land, that's never tasted rain
The posse has been thinning out
As men head back to town
So, that just leaves you and me
To track...
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Categories:
hillside,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter Bird
The Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
hillside, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
I Will Remember You Most
I am not sure whether I am missing you or that you are missing life~
...
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Categories:
hillside, brother, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Efflorescence
I am lying in a field everything surrounding me so serene, the sky is the most beautiful shade of blue and the grass a beautiful luscious green
There is nothing forgotten or decayed in this place,...
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Categories:
hillside, creation, death, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Moon Drop
I was an active, vibrant, happy person, and I was captivated by the moon,
In the way that summer lovers, are ofttimes charmed by romantic tunes.
Since early childhood, I had been enamored, of that limpid,...
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Categories:
hillside, beauty, fantasy, imagery, light, moon, nature, night,
Form:
Couplet
All In the Name of Progress
All In The Name Of "Progress"
The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I called home while
veritably sequestered, quarantined, positioned...
sprawled atop spaciously shingled roof
countless years (B)efore...
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Categories:
hillside, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunrise
Sunrise
What a splendour to watch the sun
...
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Categories:
hillside, appreciation, beauty, bird, feelings, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Loved Cds Poem: Past Time Nightmare
PAST TIME NIGHTMARE
Based on events I experienced.
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night after night she feared...
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Categories:
hillside, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Survival
We boarded the Carnival Cruise in Miami with excitement,
our destination was Montego Bay- with a promise of great fun;
...
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Categories:
hillside, cute, imagination, lost, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Memory of Lost Innocence
Memory of Lost Innocence
We were just kids running down the hillside, with youthful spontaneity marking the passage of time. No beaten path, we just flowed where our little hearts took us, wedging our way...
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Categories:
hillside, child, death, memory, sad,
Form:
Haibun
Life Now Cries Out, This Truth, There Is No Holy Grail
There Beyond The Purple Veil, I Hear Her Calling
As sorrowing winds blow, darkness begins falling
There beyond the purple veil, I hear her calling
For the smell of the hillside, the flowers gifting
Nature's streaming beauty, life that’s...
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Categories:
hillside, art, creation, deep, destiny, endurance, fate, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Morn's Alive With Skylarks Singing
The morn's alive with skylarks singing
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free between the rain drops,
I cried 'Excelsior!' and...
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Categories:
hillside, tribute, writing,
Form:
Verse
Lines Written In Albany
On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky...
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Categories:
hillside, how i feel, places,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 8a
CHAPTER 8 Two Paths
North they travelled through the jungle
Aiming to escape from forest
Seeking an itinerary
Near the coast in open country
So they climbed a wooded hilltop;
Han attained the top-most branches
Of a mighty towering ironwood
To survey the...
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Categories:
hillside, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 12d
Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 (d) The fireflower (cont.)
Dominated by one hilltop
Round in form, it’s summit hidden
In the whiteness of a cloud base
There they saw their destination
Now they climbed by steepening gradient
Through a...
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Categories:
hillside, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative