Long Motionless Poems
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Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
motionless, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Early Poems Iii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
motionless, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of Infinity
Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
motionless, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
motionless, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
motionless, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34
I listened to his heart profusely,
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings meant to me
They...
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Categories:
motionless, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings, heart, leadership, psychological,
Form:
Epic
Yosa Buson Translations
Yosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
motionless, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
motionless, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
motionless, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Deor's Lament
Deor's Lament
(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...
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Categories:
motionless, destiny, england, fate, old, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Verse
Last Call
We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street. Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night. My...
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Categories:
motionless, passion, sad,
Form:
Prose
An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here
but you are in my heart
so
you are always with me
i'll just slip into you
with these words.
I know
there are mountains
dwarf the cities below
peaks that stride above the...
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Categories:
motionless, beauty, celebration, dream, heart, love, magic,
Form:
Epic
Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*
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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE
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1.
Once upon a time,
The Lord...
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Categories:
motionless, future, life, , atheist,
Form:
Epic
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
My most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
motionless, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Fabrics Finding Fabrications
A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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Categories:
motionless, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Rights of Prey
Self-pardoning rights of predators and pirates
emperors and kings
CEOs and wealthy competitors
follow our over investment
in separating natural land and bodies
from oceanic surfing inside spirits,
yang ecopolitical strength of communal sight
from yin personal flow of sound,
resonant orthodox positive
and
negatively...
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Categories:
motionless, anti bullying, caregiving, earth, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
How I Became a Street Boy
Can a lioness tender care
Cease towards the child she bare
Yes she may be forgetful
Yet I shall never forget you
Words of mom on that fateful day
As she lay there in the most pitiable way
She drew me...
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Categories:
motionless, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
motionless, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Megan's Quest Part 6of7
With the Trolls passed out on the grass...the regrettable task
now fell to the brave Talkalot.
He moved to the gate and taking a sip from his flask...
he stared...
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Categories:
motionless, adventure, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Fast and Cheap She Says
What ever is fast and cheap you say...
You are so funny -
this is not a fast thing -
to do a video montage of 5 minutes
may take me a lifetime
as I move from inspiration...
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Categories:
motionless, art, celebration, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Life In Eternity
LIFE IN ETERNITY*
1.
The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent infantile heart was provoked by
The challenging divine call,
Started beating...
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Categories:
motionless, birth, life, universe,
Form:
Epic
The Butterfly, Part I
One warm Summer’s day
As I sat in my folding chair
Something caught my eyey
Something there
Something flying through the air
It was a butterfly
It did flitter and flutter by
When it decided to land
It landed on my left hand
I...
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Categories:
motionless, allegory, allusion, analogy, butterfly, me, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
motionless, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form:
Blank verse
1856
During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
Tomorrow I'd...
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Categories:
motionless, dark, dream, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
My Kundalini Awakening
Part-1: Preamble
God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime
God's vibration caused a ripple...
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Categories:
motionless, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets