Long Mournful Poems
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My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
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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mournful, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
mournful, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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mournful, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
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Rhyme
What Good Are Our TearsWhat 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:
mournful, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian 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:
mournful, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
mournful, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
mournful, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
mournful, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Exaltation of InannaThe Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
mournful, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)
Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,
Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss
By...
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Categories:
mournful, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
Canto Xix Hell TranslationSimon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey
For gold and silver adulterate still,
Now it's time that the trumpet sounds...
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Categories:
mournful, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Daylight Is Wasting AwayYou see the pain in my eyes
And you erase the cruel lies
I see the pain in your eyes
Tell me something promising as time flies
Don't say your goodbyes
I say hello to our temporary highs
Pre-chorus: Do...
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Categories:
mournful, best friend, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Lyric
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
mournful, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
A Haunting Wooded Tale,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
mournful, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xx Hell TranslationOf new pains new verses must be composed
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.
I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...
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Categories:
mournful, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
With Or Without YouPre-chorus: Do you hear me, calling your name from the other side of the road?
Did you know that you are the best, compared to the rest?
I've been left in the cold on my own...
I feel...
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Categories:
mournful, deep, depression, desire, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
mournful, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Chapter 1: Betrayal Stinks - a Poetic JourneyGive me a pleasant,
Elevating and
Elegant embrace
Times like these are Grim
Believe in Him
Don’t give up on them –
The people you hang out with
So much fun, I can clearly see actually,
Time and time...
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Categories:
mournful, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet and sour coated seeds
I grew free standing expressions and then...
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Categories:
mournful, depression, heart, introspection, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Flagan the Dragon Part2The Tale of the Bumpalump
After the Knight had unraveled...Flagan decided to travel
and get away on a long holiday.
He thought it quite grand to visit a new land
and...
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Categories:
mournful, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin 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:
mournful, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Captivated By the MusicI loved my job as a librarian, and today I was walking to work,
In the warmth of a summer morning, when golden butterflies lurk.
I had some extra time, and it happens I took the scenic...
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Categories:
mournful, beauty, fantasy, imagery, music, nature, song, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Halloween Poems IiiNo One
by Michael R. Burch
No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...
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Categories:
mournful, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
mournful, war,
Form:
Rhyme
My Baby and IMy baby don't cry
My baby don’t cry
Baby, I feel you weeping in grief at home
Told you I can be outside and freely roam
My baby don’t cry
My baby don’t cry
Even if life goes awry
Don’t you...
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Categories:
mournful, pain, passion, psychological, sympathy, youth,
Form:
Lyric