Long Maelstrom Poems
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Psychologically still thirteen
Psychologically 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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Categories:
maelstrom, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Athenian Epitaphs
Athenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
maelstrom, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
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 lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
maelstrom, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
maelstrom, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
maelstrom, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Sarah’s Origin
My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...
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Categories:
maelstrom, dark, death, gothic,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36
I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
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Categories:
maelstrom, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
maelstrom, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...
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Categories:
maelstrom, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
From the moment...
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Categories:
maelstrom, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, holocaust, horror,
Form:
Epic
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
maelstrom, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Continuum - Part Two
Climbing from the sands, velociraptors turn as one
Triceratops and stegosaurs arise to share the fun
And then they march en masse toward that briny maelstrom
And Adam Adams yells, “They’re heading back where they came from!”
Suddenly, so...
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Categories:
maelstrom, future, humanity, time,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 12
His words stung me, as the cries from the maelstrom seem to retort
Their scattered, foreign words and wails retching their say
I listened, almost mesmerized,
Pulverized
“Come,” Said he,
With threatening authority
Upwards, higher than the balcony from which we...
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Categories:
maelstrom, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, conflict, hope, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
maelstrom, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 21
The waters of the Holy Spirit stirred with strength
And commenced to churn itself alive inside the well,
Forming a new maelstrom so radiant it seemed to rise in special presentation,
Roaring its heartfelt existence known
Our prince roared...
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Categories:
maelstrom, change, conflict, courage, devotion, inspiration, love, pain,
Form:
Epic
Letter To Taeljejohn
uncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
maelstrom, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former born April...
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Categories:
maelstrom, age, angst, anniversary, august, conflict, grave, history,
Form:
Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
maelstrom, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11
In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
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Categories:
maelstrom, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Quotient
I went out for the newspaper at the usual time this morning, shortly after 5AM, (yes, I'm one of the "odd few" who still enjoys the crisp feel of a morning paper in my hands),...
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Categories:
maelstrom, analogy, appreciation, earth, life, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Macabiloquent Mastery
As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heavy with the miasma of malignant...
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Categories:
maelstrom, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
maelstrom, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
maelstrom, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Maelstrom
A situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil. (dictionary definition #2 of Maelstrom)
Today’s opinions are so contrasting and divisive that nobody seems to know up from down!
I believe fairly strongly in what I...
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Categories:
maelstrom, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
maelstrom, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse