Long Marsh Poems
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Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
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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Categories:
marsh, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
marsh, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
marsh, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
marsh, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Regret
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
marsh, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Retribution
In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
marsh, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
marsh, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
She Carries TUKAHOK In Her Chest
she is matawàhkwí
of the pullaook — turkey clan
she is lenni lenape
born where marsh meets
sky’s reflection
where grass (aski) bends
to east wind (achpateuny)
and water (mbi) feeds
all it touches
the year's spirit
in spiral moons
not lines on paper
each moon
opens its...
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Categories:
marsh, culture, family, history, native american, ocean, river,
Form:
Epic
All That Was Sparta
Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
marsh, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
marsh, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
marsh, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Jane Eyre Crown
This is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...
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Categories:
marsh, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
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Categories:
marsh, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
marsh, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Bad Energy
So, I’ll be quite frank about how I feel…
Dealing with my demons, made out of steel
And I have been feeling numb all my life
Due to a lack of peace…dealt with hellfire strife
I don’t mean to...
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Categories:
marsh, dark, deep, depression, grief, hope, passion, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
When Savages Sang Strongly 4
Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh...
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Categories:
marsh, heart,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)
Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they blame
looking at the heavens he saw the moon glowing blood...
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Categories:
marsh, courage, fantasy, hero, history, mythology, symbolism, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Very Weird And Wonderful World Of Place Names: UK And US Edition
I: THE UK
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Bath, Cat's Ash
North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.
Six Mile Bottom, Mudford...
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Categories:
marsh, america, crazy, england, humor, humorous, london, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Kindle Spirit
They said that over the years I've killed ten people, and
they said that with conviction as if it was a fact
I think in secrecy and with a conviction that it was more than that.
They...
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Categories:
marsh, violence,
Form:
Prose
The House
I've drove along this road before
And thought I knew it well
Every twist and turn it made
The marsh, the mounds, the dell
But on this autumn evening
I felt like I was lost
I did not recognize this...
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Categories:
marsh, halloween,
Form:
Light Verse
Dragonfly Storm
In recent years I had grown so forgetful, like noon without memory of night.
I forgot special events and sundry items, like books, my phone, or flashlight.
It was turning into a frightful nuisance, like long shadows...
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Categories:
marsh, beautiful, color, dance, imagery, insect, nature, storm,
Form:
Couplet
Water World
I had always loved being near deep-sea water, and I was never too far away,
As the beauty of fresher tomorrow, is but mystic hours from prevalent today.
I enjoyed swimming and boating and surfing, and even...
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Categories:
marsh, beautiful, color, fantasy, nature, rain, water, world,
Form:
Couplet
The Mallards of Bedford Springs
The late night storm rushed into the valley,
Pouring down,
Creating the sleepy ambiance only a mountains lull can provide.
The crisp damp air crackles to life at lights first caste over the mountain,
into the...
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Categories:
marsh, america, nature, river, spring, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Even the Lazy Lizard
Even the Lazy Lizard
Even the lazy lizard knows when not to beg,
when not to emerge, from behind the hungry black rock of
another dying hand, hopelessly clutching the mysteries of
another sit-down, in the serene...
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Categories:
marsh, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Cyrillic Runestone
A journeyman once spelunked in a cavern beneath a marsh,
Whose oily layers of algae and water made his mission harsh.
For the cavern's entrance stood in the middle of the massive swamp
Full of gators with sawtooth...
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Categories:
marsh, adventure, fantasy, hero, light, water,
Form:
Couplet