Long Iver Poems

I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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“Light Winged”




fluid I freely flow
nacreous and immersed
beyond naology  

I am far removed
from the numbers
and rites

of your 
hard-edged, 
strange world 

the seconds 
stretch deeper and higher
than millennia here

I Am 
an ancient soul 
become nascent

light winged...

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"Soul Surfer" 



I bought some sea shell beads 
today, 
stood by the ocean 
while the half sharp winter wind 
washed 
through 
me 
and 
whispered stinging sticatto 
cold licks next to my ear, so sincerely -...

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There was a bongoman, and he dreaming
Where the rock hovered above the blue sea
Looked through the white mist of a dew drenched morning
And clenched tight his memory of history
Black as midnight: showed me shining like...

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'Imagine'. Life's wurth without, 'imagination',
could we iver contemplate creation?
A gif' to have in oor ain mind's een,
without it, nuthin' wundrous wid be iver seen.

Rabbie."O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as...

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I remember it like it was yesterday.  I was probably twelve when Mr Kimball, who lived across the street, asked me if I had a bike.   I said “no”, and he asked...

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Can I introduce you to the reason of unreasonable actions? Can I show you the cause of my apprehension? I don't think it will end the way we thought it would. I could set the...

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"Howard    woncha say a few wurds?
Cum on    Howard    like over tha bird."
Says Aunt Jen    visitin' fer the holeeday.

Weuns are seated   ...

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River Line

                             A creek has no commemoration

River...

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Poet Trees


P ~ ondering onto paper the meaning’s life life’s meaning desire dreams and 

O ~ scillations swinging steadily from crown to source and back beyond my lived

E ~ xperience the frame and window of...

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Tough in spending even in abundance of resources
Indifference shown to priority of any needed purchase
Giving is rendered a gruesome punishment to mankind
Hall of famer to the accuracy of the expression of feelings
Tight fisted, closed minded...

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J ust a lovely sunny day
A nd I'm ambling along
R iver flowing peacefully
E very sound evokes a song
D elightful is this day in May

P retty blossoms everywhere
I n my path and on the air
C reatures...

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BETH ? REST    
                            ...

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Paradise of timeless peace and harmony  "Divine"!

Amber clouds glow among the rising heaven

River of the prettiest crystal blue wandering water

Align fanning palms trees resting in the sandy shore

Dreams echo through the breeze of lover’s...

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R-iver is not running dry, 
I-t instead overflows; 
N-ice graces from God
A-re falling from heaven's windows.

B-lessings come flowing
O-n June seventeenth day; 
L-ike a water from a stream, 
A-lways going down the bay.
N-ot running dry is...

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