Long Homesteads Poems
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Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
homesteads, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Dirge of the Last Lap
I
The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling bells in pulsated grief . . .
Dirge comes with thunder,
like the...
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Categories:
homesteads, dark, death, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
What'Ll We Drink Now
I’d never been outside Victoria except once on the Murray,
where we fished for near a week only giving carp some curry,
but of course that was my highlight going on that camping trip.
I talked so much...
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Categories:
homesteads, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto I-Farmers Farewell
A common confrontation between
Man and animals
From the wild, are pigs roaming farm lands
Destroying the crops
Of pöor farmers, it’s indeed a
Problem in Indian states
With forest borders, acute in her
Many smaller states.
In larger states where lands are...
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Categories:
homesteads, betrayal, culture, farm, poems, poetry, political, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 11g 12a
Chapter 11g
Han and Kwona and their children
Made their courteous introductions
Then were guided to their quarters
Where they soundly slept till sunrise
Chapter 12a The Fireflower
In the morning light they wakened
Now they saw with daytime clearness
The luxurious...
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Categories:
homesteads, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, science, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
The reign and rain of terror
The year ends on saddest notes
of crying, dying babies in Palestine
and obstructed efforts
to throw them a lifeline
They ought to have long halted
this ethnic cleansing
of the indigenous inhabitants
Stop the cruel bombardment
of their...
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Categories:
homesteads, horror, violence, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Ruin In a Modern English Translation
THE RUIN
an Old English poem about fate & destiny
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
well-hewn was this wall-stone, till Wyrdes wrecked it
and the Colossus sagged inward...
broad battlements broken;
the Builders' work battered;
the high ramparts toppled;
tall...
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Categories:
homesteads, destiny, eulogy, fate, gothic, history, horror, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
The Drove
The trail was long and very dusty
great clouds churned up by hooves
of the vast herd being wrangled on
300 more miles of eating their dust
Bandana's tightly wrapped round faces
cries of "get up there" ringing out
bawling calves...
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Categories:
homesteads, horse, storm,
Form:
Epic
Teanaway Valley
An old Point Man phoned, “Do ya think you can do it?.
Driving doggies and cows from the flanks of Mt. Stewart?"
Fattened on grass for a year they had stayed.
“Move a river of...
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Categories:
homesteads, peace, river,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Of Tales, the Stuff of Legends
Great are his exploits
honour and rank
he's celebrated
he's immortalized
He's fondly recalled
Back to memory
The great legends of Old..
Great Chief Waiyaki wa Hinga..
Aged nine he killed a lion
with his bare hands...
When the imperialist came.. Waiyaki..
Raised a huge...
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Categories:
homesteads, africa, betrayal, community, conflict, destiny, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
Katrina
nature, storm, boat, clothes, house, water
AWASH AND AWAY! © KIMO
Listen, Katrina will come inland
Katrina has come to play
Playgrounds underwater
Sleepy times put asunder
Bedclothes hung out in tree tops, upended
Held fast in forked boughs
Homesteads beached, broken
Swirl...
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Categories:
homesteads, abuse, boat, clothes, house, nature, storm, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Forgotten Path
As
it
was
that
in
my
pain
I
felt
the
agony.
Building
up
inside
me
like
a
Jericho
wall
that
refused
to
fall
was
my
misery.
I
forgot
the
names
of
those
who
shot
the...
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Categories:
homesteads, africa
Form:
Concrete
Restricted Life
Human life deserves a platform to unfold
Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny
Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold
They reject freedom and project a mutiny
Born from the scorn society pours on freedom
Curtailing every...
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Categories:
homesteads, poems,
Form:
Free verse
I Met a Little Girl
Once I met a little girl
Sweeter than honey could be,
She must have been barely eight
But looked much younger to me.
She asked with a dimpled smile
If a picture I could draw,
Her eyes shone with a strange...
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Categories:
homesteads, girl, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lonesome Sound
LONESOME
SOUND
Old man said he could hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
and they could write a song about that.
Said he could tell how many cars a train freighted
just by how sad...
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Categories:
homesteads, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Old Homesteads
Passing thru' the farmlands,
my mind begins to roam
for along the way we travel
lie abandoned, country homes.
Weather-beaten, gray and leaning,
often twenty miles from town,
I wonder how they're standing,
why they haven't tumbled down.
Rock foundations old and crumbling,
all...
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Categories:
homesteads, history, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Sunday, 1935
Year five of the Great Depression.
April 14, 1935 another Sunday of church services praying for
The rain that wasn’t coming.
And the sky turned mean and angry, as daylight was obliterated into The blackness of night....
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Categories:
homesteads, america, history, weather,
Form:
Narrative
Hippocrite's Oath
Hypocrites’ oath
Dirt-cheep government clinics treat death
And disease just like they are dirt and refuse
Which in a way is just about fine.
Today’s multi specialities, housing as they are ,
A subtle...
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Categories:
homesteads, health,
Form:
Free verse
A Price Tag On Every Soul
Everybody bears a price tag
Claim tycoons with bottomless purses
With a plethora of dollars to flash and flag
About to entice simpletons who deem their lives struck by curses
Inserted in their DNA
Generations ago
Which render them incapable to...
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Categories:
homesteads, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Fred Seegmiller - 1871-1907
Fred Seegmiller
1871 - 1907
You never met a man who loved my town.
As I much as I did.
Coming here in ’90 by the train.
It nearly killed me, but I stayed on my knees.
I prayed and...
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Categories:
homesteads, death, me, cancer,
Form:
Epitaph
Northern Michigan Wildflowers
I love when the first blooms of spring begin, crocus in the garden, peaking from the snow; may flowers and troutlily soon begin to show
The millions of trilliums gloriously painting the undergrowth of our...
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Categories:
homesteads, flower, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Massacre of Glencoe
Freezing ,wet and hungry,
In need of food and rest,
The MacDonalds took them in,
And made them all a guest,
The weather here was always harsh,
A storm could last a week,
But the snow had started falling,
Things were really...
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Categories:
homesteads, history, night, night, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Message With the Wind
As you blow past me today wind
Travelling across the mountains…..
As you make your silent journey
Whispering to the leaves
I have a message to someone
You to carry along with.
As you travel the distances
Past homesteads and the trees
Then...
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Categories:
homesteads, love, heart, heart, love, me, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Hard Life
Cutting stones for building blocks doesn't
bring the whole food at the table. Playing
betting games force them to sell their
clothes and shoes. Saving money becomes
harder than collecting drops of rain during
drought.
Their children toil in the farms...
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Categories:
homesteads, deep, imagery, life, society, urban, vanity, voice,
Form:
Narrative
Ubuntu a Paradigm Shift
Ubuntu
P andemonium the polymorph perverse un-reflected paradigm of our time casts
A narchy tumultuous turmoil killing sprees beheadings senseless hatred and results from ...
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Categories:
homesteads, love, war,
Form:
Acrostic