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Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
Dusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
life death, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
See
See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
life death, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
life death, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
life death, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
life death, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Come To the Lord - Christinas Trinity Style
~ Come To The Lord ~
( Christina's Trinity )
~O~
Come to the Lord, He's Mighty, Good
Find Him always in all mood
With Him you'll be strong
With Him you'll belong
Today, all life...
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Categories:
life death, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS IDENTITY FRAUD AGAINST INFORMANTS
SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND THE FEMALE AGENT WHO ACTUALLY INSTALLED THE WIRES ON MY UNBORN CHILD I BELIEVE SHE HATED ME EVEN THOUGH I SAVED HER LIFE GOING INTO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS...
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Categories:
life death, allah,
Form:
Naat
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath
Death...
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Categories:
life death, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Liberal Operatic Lovers
What cooperative evidence
could we final climate find
for WinWin cooperation lovers
including LeftBrain secular humanities
inviting no more or less valueflow
than RightBrain WiseElder root-branch dipolar etchings
neurologically ancient bipolar temporal systemic
body-branch, mind-root DNA enscriptured holonic trees,
DNA river...
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Categories:
life death, environment, happiness, health, heart, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
life death, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Bipartisan Images
There remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,
Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,
About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering
young
green feminists
of feckless zero-empty wombs,
glacier valley lows
merely reflecting
volcanic mountain peaks
1's and 0's
blushing co-binaries
of upright monotheistic YangPower
never
ever yielding to...
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Categories:
life death, games, health, integrity, light, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
life death, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
life death, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor
And learning how tae run.
Potty trained and full eh life
They’d run you af yer feet,
A kiss on the cheek...
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Categories:
life death, abuse, addiction, dark, drug, family, health, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Zeitgeist
competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
life death, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Earthjazz Commons
ZeroSum Spirit
bicameral begins
playing through Ego-Eco Me.
Nondual trinitarian bilaterality
of a Mother Scaling Tree
forecasting and shadowing
WinWin
healthy branching
and rooting properties.
Spirit consciousness,
DNA with RNA tribal strings
of multicolored cooperative intelligence.
ZeroSpirit
fractal-seasoned
developing psychology
phylogeny
homology
toward
WiseElder WinWin GoldenRulology.
ZeroAnimated
AcclimatingMundi,
full-mooned Boody
multiregenerational cosmos
where ev'rything grows living out
and fades...
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Categories:
life death, addiction, community, health, humor, integrity, music, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
As I Watch Myself Unfold Without Love
He/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking, yet undeterminate in any reason with...
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Categories:
life death, age, appreciation, grief, remember, sad love, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Demonic Love
Demonic love
Just walk and walk in the endless land of an amazing old cemetery
Just walk and read the names from the stones, how many lives? Oh
Just walk and think about the past, about life, about...
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Categories:
life death, fantasy, life, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Karma Inspirations
An Eastern term, karma
for Western causes
leading to subsequent events,
one bilateral lined dimension
temporally expressed,
explicated,
delineated,
articulated
co-arising dipolarity
correlational
co-relational,
negative and/or positive
Energy
empowerment/disempowerment
enlightenment/disenlightenment
Pathological benightedness
dualdark bilateral
East v West dissociative energy
potential power
shadowed unfore-giving lacking light
Repeatedly,
redundantly enough
that we create "pathology" language
to describe constant,
or nearly constant,
win/lose...
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Categories:
life death, analogy, health, humanity, inspiration, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Weighty Eighths
Weighty governance,
to optimize bicamerally Timeless Truths,
integrate bilateral Ways,
to health-grow binomial ego-eco
in-out
Life,
was RNA elder
and remains DNA
fractal stuff
of ZeroZoned Taoism,
4D RealTime Zen,
FourSeasoned Permaculture Design
Four spiraling ecosystemic points
in Work and WinWin Play That ReConnects
healthy systemic-game restoring justice,
local with...
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Categories:
life death, education, environment, health, humor, math, planet, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
ELEPHANT WOMAN
{ emo music inspired poem }
ELEPHANT WOMAN
She is Elephant Woman
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass or
lined velvet curtains
whether it sits on Signal Hill
or in Newlands bourgeois class
cannot...
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Categories:
life death, allegory, character, courage, dance, emo, humanity, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and...
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Categories:
life death, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery, memory, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Breathing Easier
Ego hears SuperEco's universal exhalation,
natural explication.
Id-entity actively self-purges with each inhalation,
even through dissonant death's hypothermic double-hinged boundary,
then emerges from inhaling information
to exhaling decomposition,
death and dissonance transcendent
polycultural Beloved Community Regenesis,
iconically liturgical within each human natured...
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Categories:
life death, earth, heart, identity, love, math, philosophy, time,
Form:
Free verse
Bicameral Covenants
May supreme Force
become You.
How is whiteness
like straightness?
she asked
And how is maleness
like left-brain dominance?
he responded.
It seems,
to usually curious
and always ancient
right with left dipolar ecofeminist Us,
Contracts are secular agreements
designed to improve mutual odds
of losing less value
as...
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Categories:
life death, bullying, community, gender, health, integrity, racism, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Christmas Thoughts From My Friend
when I went through the living room they had turned the lights off on the tree, all but the star, sitting at the very top of the tree above all the ornaments, still shining brightly...
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Categories:
life death, fate,
Form:
Free verse