Long Host Poems
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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary CuisinesYours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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host, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Food glorious foodFood glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...
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Categories:
host, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
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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host, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
host, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
host, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
host, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
host, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Climates of Ballistic ManagementSenator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at this point in time,
although he is making no commitments about...
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Categories:
host, destiny, earth, health, humor, peace, political, true
Form:
Prose Poetry
Transparent ExodusImagine we live in an eco-normative story
of competing for wealth-commodities,
cash piled in quantifiable currencies,
collectively blinded to our Win-Win
natural economic,
ecological,
psychological,
biological health and well-being value roots.
One day, our Permacultural Received View
unveils a co-operatively synergetic evolution of positive...
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Categories:
host, earth, environment, philosophy, political, psychological, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
host, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
What I Didn'T KnowPeople, Places, and Things I Didn't Know I Trusted
I rather suddenly, and belatedly,
realized I trust the highest and best use for language,
for every community and communication of faith,
for every school and pedagogical political enculturation,
for every...
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Categories:
host, culture, health, love, political, power, psychological, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
host, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
host, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
host, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
host, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
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:
host, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
host, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Little Blue FairyThere was a little wind fairy who lived in a meadow near a small town, her name was Estella. Estella had beautiful blue hair like the sky, so her friends called her the little blue...
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Categories:
host, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
host, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
host, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
host, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For WarThe Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
host, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Talk To Me Stop TalkingJust a view on the inner critic. Every time I read what I wrote I see a different angle. This person never even opened their eyes. Some day you can't.
The day had begun. Simple. It...
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Categories:
host, mental illness,
Form:
Prose
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: The Hawaiian Church in KalapanaI stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor windows, you can see cars driving on the lane road...
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Categories:
host, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian, family, happiness, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
host, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse