Long Mothered Poems

NAME: Phil Latio.

QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet    
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Such Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch

for the mothers of Gaza

There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...

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Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems



Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of bread warming at dawn,
a woman haranguing men,
the poetry of Aeschylus,
love's...

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“There is no loyalty greater than the love of a loyal dog.” By Author
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Please correct me if I do not accurately speak for you,
I would not misrepresent your fellow readers
and writers and breathers
and heart-beaters

but I believe outcomes,
goals we most want 
our local 
and national 
and international political networks
to...

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Venerated paternal puissant prophet...

His buzzfeeding spirit jump started
and kindled eternally his uplifting karma,
thus I present genuine psalm
remembrance of things past hallelujah!

Lemme automatically shift figurative gears
and apprise thee dear reader,
when a series of irreversible unfortunate events
accelerated...

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Mother To The Core

Browsing through the latest online daily news articles..
Here is one about a wife caring for her sick husband..
Its lengthy title was very striking, it mentioned an ailing composer....
And a wife of 76...

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~The Only Solution~

It’s the only solution isn’t it amazing
Words transcribed by lightning emblazing
Etched upon stone that hangs on our tomb
When flowers no longer blossom and bloom

We shed divine spirit of faith for the flesh
Without weaving...

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So dear son,
                  A man on crutches is a broken man
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I was deprived of a father at the early age of thirteen.                       ...

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Dreaming of a pot of gold, you came to town
It was sprawling, this metropolis, you knew none around
Your earnings were scant and engagements, irregular
The overseer assured steady income in lieu of a favour
You succumbed to...

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Animal kingdom was invited to join the forest meadow
Band orchestrated by the deniable dictator, diabolical gorilla king
Causing loads of premature bragging from delighted grand-animals.
Deliriously enthusiastic orangutans began to show off their voice prowess.
Excited flocks, herds,...

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I asked the desert 
 to carry me from this place
 of the Qubbanet El-Qirud’ infertile soil 
 suddenly, that whisper of wind
 took my hand, and walked
 along and alone with me
 I, heard...

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Ur an extension of myself, a literal blister,
It’s mad sometimes how much I’ve missed ya 
You’ve walked in my footsteps for almost your whole life
Taught you how to be kinky as ever and still a...

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In bubble thought
I wrote by words
of my round-glassy head
and closed my eyes.
 To my surprise
I saw a vintage
picture—a cover to a book
I’d closed for years.

	To keep my eye
from sprinkling
I let the story unfold
in silent
form
for I...

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Can words truly capture the essence of the lady on the hill
Whose womb bore eight but yet-
Has mothered countless others?
Whose hands dug deep to till the soil; to stretch outwards to care, to share, to...

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1- Believe
He couldn't believe that
He could imagine in fact
That can be the weakest
Convert to be the strongest
The kind waves that carry ships
Can be overlapped and damaged them
The fire that warm people 
Can harm and hurt...

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Motor is nudged to life in an arcing motion, arm pulling 
cord. Vein-furrowed hands grasp the fishing pole, 
slinging bait and tackle beneath one arm. Another 
arcing motion, arm casting pole. Bobber spins 
a helicopter...

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A healthy death's born when you grok that life's end
(Though no more than one second) might well be a friend,
Not a troll that hides under a bridge, out of sight,
Where it haunts the unwary, in...

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Easy Practitioners of Another Voodoo

While I was counting the cost of steak
And while depressed about her over weight
He was counting grains of rice
She was forced into a life of vice

And while the self righteous contemplate
Judgement...

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Argent moons myriad known, beneath an endless zenith sky
When hotter suns unaltered and stars ruled as aperture fever of a night
Around a fire this Naabeeho song begun, sung louder than a heaven's choir
As “Soaring Feather”...

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They come not with love, but with ledger and law,
Smiling in suits, concealing the claw.
China, America, Russia — the trinity of gain,
Feasting on Africa’s marrow, her sorrow, her pain.

They light the fires in Congo’s green...

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This story is hell to tell
I have a hell of a story to tell
After I have auctioned off 
my sisters to the highest bidder
and my sinful soul is deemed worthy to sell
To the seventh heaven...

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True woman,
With a loving heart,
With caring hands.
You that watched while I slept,
Sing to me again,the lullaby.

True woman,
Echo that melody of how the angels,
Beautifully sang,as they welcomed His birth -
And I'll join to sing along,
For this...

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The brain has a funny way of telling lies
Which makes you smile when you're sad.
But still that heart of yours, never denies
When it knows, it has lost all that it had.

It's hard to distinguish what's...

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