Long Michelangelo Poems
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kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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michelangelo, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
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:
michelangelo, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
one kiss
* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a very brief moment, and all that our minds can process...
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Categories:
michelangelo, analogy, kiss,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
michelangelo, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Michelangelo: Modern English Translations
MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
michelangelo, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
A Museum Ap-Art
I'd risen from my bed quite early, in the pale silent sunshine,
And I thought to have a day out, and not waste summer's prime.
The world still was sleeping, but the bluebirds sang a tune,
And blooms...
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Categories:
michelangelo, adventure, art, beauty, color, fantasy, imagery, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to reveal her true colors in fits and starts,
nevertheless, she displays skittishness,
when...
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Categories:
michelangelo, america, animal, birth, celebration, earth, humorous, spring,
Form:
Free verse
DAVID : Sculpture : Michelangelo: Florence : 1501
“Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone,
so long as ruin and dishonour reign ;
to bear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain ;
then wake me not, speak in an...
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Categories:
michelangelo, allusion, art, character, creation, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Stagnant Water
I feel yet I don't feel
I crave but I don't crave
I desire yet I don't desire
I know but I don't know
I am getting ready to start the show
But there are too many blood suckers
running...
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Categories:
michelangelo, america, blessing, break up, celebration, character, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Acknowledgements
1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
michelangelo, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
Bleeding Before Rome -1
The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield,
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high metal crosses by the hundreds
rippling along the rugged roman earth
bringing...
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Categories:
michelangelo, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Divine Heathen Lurches Philosophical
index finger of left hand
(likened to Michelangelo
meticulously chiseling away
at marble block), this poe
whit attempts to coax (zealously
tap into his latent...
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Categories:
michelangelo, 10th grade, 11th grade, 9th grade, atheist,
Form:
Free verse
Michelangelo Translations
MICHELANGELO TRANSLATIONS
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He and his fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci, were rivals for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man. Michelangelo is...
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Categories:
michelangelo, angel, art, beautiful, beauty, creation, eulogy, visionary,
Form:
Epigram
Stranded In America
I felt as though I have been stranded in America
for more than a century
wearing the same old clothes on my battered back
wearing threadbare shoes on my tired feet
singing the same old...
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Categories:
michelangelo, adventure, christian, creation, deep, destiny, environment, future,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hollywood Has Left the Building
Dawn is breaking as I get home from work
...
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Categories:
michelangelo, angst, life, music, sonhouse, heart, heart, house,
Form:
Lyric
cats and boots
Here’s to scrumptious nights.
cats and boots and cats and boots
We went clubbing last night, to recalibrate
ourselves on the dance floor, where magic happens.
cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots
To focus on...
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Categories:
michelangelo, dance, dark, fun, humor, night, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Un-Revelling Rivalry
Un-revelling Rivalry
Who am I to speak of historical rivalry I cannot contest
all the clever myriad truths conjectures and refutations
about the two masters the two foes with huge presence
when history acclaim appreciation is subjective personal
up...
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Categories:
michelangelo, art,
Form:
Narrative
Super Hero
"Super Hero"
Krypto Knighted
Disrobed Le Penseur
contemplates strength
a royal monk disrobing within
Rodin begins to think
new dreams dialled in
naked vulnerability begins
hiding behind dark angel wings
pinned between the box-cadged
dimensions of a glass onion
black crows waiting along the...
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Categories:
michelangelo, freedom, romance, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Rivalry's Children
It was the time when art was king,
Of artists whose praises we all sing.
Great minds there were in the Renaissance,
Through eons , unsurpassed, with little advance.
Greatness was embodied in the works of art,
In Lorenzo's...
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Categories:
michelangelo, art, history, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Adventures of Enea, Part 7 of 13
Enea's Pope! (2)
I suppose it’s common knowledge
(and not tedious, I hope!)
that two-thirds of the Sacred College
must concur to elect a pope.
With eighteen cardinals gathered,
twelve was the...
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Categories:
michelangelo,
Form:
Quatrain
On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To Whitman
Every time I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted waistcoat,
I'm not unworthy of you, Walt,
I'm not unworthy...
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Categories:
michelangelo, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word play, writing,
Form:
Free verse
She Will Become the Renaissance
When their daughter asks them about the Renaissance,
they’ll tell her about Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’, Andreas Versailus and Nicholas Copernicus but I wish them to tell her how Galileo Galilei was imprisoned by the...
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Categories:
michelangelo, community, death, freedom, humanity, religion, society, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Start of a New Poem
It is a night creamed by melting darkness.
Fireflies are obsessed with secrecy tonight
And dim their lights cautiously, frugally.
Crickets and cicadas crepitate with muted
Feelings, sallying wretched, orphaned tadpoles.
I cringe from traditional horror,
Wincing with the power of...
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Categories:
michelangelo, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
From the Heart To the Cross
From The Heart To The Cross
The burden to carry on a journey slated,
Weighs heavily on an outcome known fated.
When faith is the belief in hope for deliverance
Where humanity’s destiny hangs in the balance.
In mirrors dwell...
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Categories:
michelangelo, art, bible, christian, god, jesus,
Form:
Sonnet
The Clouds
I look up at the clouds above me and I feel the weight of nature dancing around me and the colors keep changing, the mountains are shaking and my heart is breaking.
It is not the...
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Categories:
michelangelo, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, business, caregiving, community, dance,
Form:
Narrative