Long Ironical Poems

Deor's Lament

(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...

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ANIMOSITY VESSEL :

Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish people swallowed by scandal.
Chameleon her pseudonym screamed from the huddle;
Many...

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Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility, but wait everything goes and now we are on to...

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Enjoyers of the traveling days, all should be so lucky. My companion and I were stranded at a train station. A thunderstorm so bright with lighting crashing, we wrote youthful words by dimly lit candles....

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I am paradise when my heart sings with riddles that only understood by the responding heart...
I am the rocket only when my emotions backfires the truth that has never been told before...
I am the calabash...

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Stories dared not whispered, legend of great thinker. 
Artificially created Atlantis, maze search for law-giver. 

Hushed lips speak no evil, silly little monkey cliche. 
Privy ancient knowledge, not clear as light and day. 

So-called peace-loving...

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Just One More Day

There was once a man, for whom I held an adoration so sincere
He was my instructor, the one who brought out my love for Shakespeare

He was an old man
But he was one...

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Tragedy is never a sentiment for Time
For it is a phenomenon she merely sees
She pours forth abundance for all that behold her
Even for those of us that scold her
And for naught she was cursed from...

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There comes a time of no more morrows,
of no more smiles, and no more sorrows.
A time when time itself will be no more!
When the earthly rich, join with the poor!
When those left behind to grieve...

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Sing a song of Taj Mahal
A landmark of lovers
And a lover's edifice
With medieval bowers
Tis a mecca for tourists
Tis sensational, tis exceptional, 
tis truly a touristy place

Watch the shine and shimmer 
of its magnificent marbled 
dome
By...

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Ironical Affair 

It is just little before 1661, I was the finance
 minister of Louis , the fourteenth who loved
 wine and pretty woman  in lavish party
 I supplied  him all including ...

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Once almost a little village
Within the city’s bounds,
Huddled around the fish dock
With its own smells and sounds,
Streets of rows of terraces
All well kept and neat,
Pride shining through
Every worker Street.

Deckies, Filleters, Bobbers
All closely living there, 
The...

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MY BROTHER IN LAW

          My brother-in-law
             talks vibrant
      ...

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I often think of myself as being a mermaid
For I am indeed none other than love's maid
I guess my name should have been Ariel
Of all the mystical creatures, I am the only belle!

A knight passed...

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I write, what to me and you
comma instead of colon, I use
Vowels at will, so what!
I am licenced to write poems.

Rhyme? a ring of my little finger
Rhythm but my gate keeper
Puns and punctuations Tom and...

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She was original
And irreplaceable 
Does no wrong to me

Maniacal yet adorable 
Addicted to her very soul
Never could she be soluble 

When she cries it brings storms
It is ironical never gives forewarns 
The the she breathes...

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Even if the clouds give you  darkness 
Always  know  that the sun shines above 
Giving hope and desire to live
Don't let those moments make you leave your dreams
It's always a step a...

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Twenty Four Yesterdays


All twenty-four black candles burned
Memories scorched, ashes yearned
Lovers torched by floating nightmares
Secrets buried in tomorrows lyrics

I wished for that sweet delectable kiss
Of love complete with butterfly bliss
Left with only a prickly thorn
From her...

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Ironical pain
By paths filled with crimson tears;
May it be finished?
Alive with all hope heartfelt,
Within now confused visions...

Lost, broken belief;
Remorseful mists messaging;
Aching unbelieved,
Scarred warrior wanders through ways;
On stained decisions to waste?

Battles could soon end;
Finish my calm...

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The face in the mirror looks right at me
A dainty forgery I ain't acquianted with
Complete with a counterfeit smile
Perfect deception has found its niche'...

Eyes they say can never lie
Don't remember the last time they didn't
A...

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Instincts stored from antiquity
Leather bound books; library in the mind
Beautiful tragic collections and revisions
The conundrum of neurology; conflict presides

Endowed with supreme cognition
Cursed, condemned by the residue of blind drives
Irreconcilable emotional juxtapositions
Humanities ironical demise

Profoundly ignorant, unabashed,...

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She gazed at me with sexy brown eyes,
Evidently exhibiting her infinite love,
But it pains me 'cause I'm telling lies,
That one day we shall fly high like a dove,

I pity her deluge of immense affection,
My vow...

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Nicola Byrne

Now know that her name is Nicola Byrne
Writes great poems with a smooth iron
And I also have heard some poets say
She recently had another Poem of The Day.

Poem was about a person who was...

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