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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds



Flying
by Michael R. Burch

I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...

and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;

but when at last...
I soar the...

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Categories: li, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse



Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Album
by Michael R. Burch

I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...

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Categories: li, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.



A Surfeit of...

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Categories: li, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to 
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...

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Categories: li, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sweet Poem In My Heart
I discovered a poem longing in my heart, it is for you, 
And it is about you, my sweetheart. This poem resembles you.
I wrote it this morning, before the arrival of the auroral shadow.
Her words...

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Categories: li, beauty, fantasy, i love you, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member SO CIRO YOU FINALLY DICIDED TO KILL ME WHILE DYING
I'M REALLY SORRY TO HEAR THAT WE HAD SO MANY LAUGHS ON EVER SUBJECT BOY THE FBI SCRATCHED THIER HEADS LISTENING TO US 7 YEARS  RIGHT SOMETIMES I WISH I COULD ORDER THOSE TAPES...

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Categories: li, allah,
Form: Naat
Chinese Translations I
Chinese Poets: English Translations

These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...

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Categories: li, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form: Free verse
Enoneone
I’m A “Street Fighter” 
You see the “Wings” CHUN 
LI
“BRUCE WAYNE”
 “LEROY”
“LU”
KAME
“THE LAST DRAGON BREATHS”
You don’t want “NUN”-CHUCK
NORE IS ANY ENTITY
Check my IP MAN
my Impulse 
 “Ki”
I’m the “1ONE” Fearless 
Jackie’s First Strike “Unleashed”
In a...

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Categories: li, art, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: li, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry, science, word play,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Se La Mia Tempesta
Non ci sono labbre piu' dolci
che hanno un sapore divino,
che sciolgono il cuore piu' freddo
e piu' triste che ho cercato di conquistare
con frasi ingannevoli che non avevamo effetto;
oh, avrei voluto tanto amarla e adorarla
piu' di...

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Categories: absence, anxiety, conflict, fear, loneliness, pain, storm,
Form: Lyric
Heads Turned
( https://twitter.com/Sudget6Quigley/status/1276631486159032323/photo/1)

Kylineskylineskyl                                 ...

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Categories: li, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3
“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...

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Categories: li, mythology,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Abandoned Cities
FUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY





"Abandoned Cities"


Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently ears open, silent screams, nothing spoken
empty library of learning, all...

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Categories: holocaust, humanity, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Cowboys
-LAST DAYS OF OLD BEN-


    “See that man up there on the mountain, son?”
“Yeah Pop, why’s he a’jes sittin there starin’ out at nuthin?"
 Well, son it ain’t nothin’ he’s seein’…Just nuthin...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: li, death, longing, love, boy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Village On the Water V
Showering white light illuminates 
  Bright-Moon Bay;
   In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
 Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
    To invite the same reticent Moon.  ...

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Categories: li, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed
Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed

Tyrian sails across stormy seas sailed,
and a bold prince they deliver
At every port cheerily he was hailed,
as an arrow straight from its quiver
Bade he the pilot to next morn tarry,
as...

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Categories: conflict, history, passion, romance, strength, symbolism, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chenglei, Mandarin Spawn
 
" I know what you dream! "

                           the...

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Categories: li, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Canto 1, Part 2
Egli in tal modo il proprio carro aggancia
A quello del bieco suo alleato
Che adesso verso l’est la sfida lancia.
He in this way his chariot hooks
To the one of his awry ally
Who now to east his...

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Categories: li, dream,
Form: Terza Rima
A Mind Filled With Cobwebs
Your touch got me acting so crazy 
Got my body screaming from your heat 
Knocks me off my feet 
Drop me on my knees and give it to me right 
You got me jumping and...

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Categories: li, betrayal,
Form: Epic
Matsuo Basho English Translations: Spring 1
Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.

Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

For yet a little while,
the pale...

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Categories: li, flower, moon, rain, river, seasons, spring, wind,
Form: Haiku
Chinese Female Poets: English Translations VI
CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Creamy Melons
by Chao Luan-Luan
translation by Michael R. Burch

Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration,
like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp,
aroused by desire, yet soft as cream,
fertile amid a warm mist
after my...

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Categories: li, body, flower, girl, sorrow, wife, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Chinese Female Poets: English Translations V
CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red”
by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

After swinging and kicking lasciviously,
I get off to rouge my palms.
Like...

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Categories: li, flower, for her, girl, sensual, wife, woman,
Form: Free verse
Chinese translations Li Bai
Li Bai translations

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by Li Bai
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Now the birds have deserted the sky
and the...

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Categories: li, age, bird, farewell, goodbye, green, introspection, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Jake Stanson Murray (Part Two)
She kept laughing but more small and appropriate, and Jake just stood there, haunting at
the thought of speaking to her, grimacing at the idea of her realization that it wasn't
the scare that made him stutter,...

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Categories: li, imaginationteenage,
Form: Free verse
Chinese Translations Iii
Chinese Translations III

Quiet Night Thoughts
by Li Bai aka Li Po
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Moonlight illuminates my bed
as frost brightens the ground.
Lifting my eyes, the moon allures.
Lowering my eyes, I long for home.


The Solitude of Night
by...

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Categories: animal, loneliness, lonely, mountains, nature, sound, voice,
Form: Free verse

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