Long Odes Poems
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Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 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:
odes, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
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:
odes, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Dandylion
"Dandylion"
The guy was a
Dandylion
there was
no denying it
full of promises
and making wishes
residing over
this new world
poetically
speaking, he
shone like
the Sun
he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous
declaring
to...
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Categories:
odes, dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Poetry Anthology Part 1Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
Krish Radhakrishna
The words herein form an anthology of love
From the...
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Categories:
odes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Farewell, PhantomsI, heart on sleeve ... proudly? I suppose, in a contrite way ...
but it's beyond my breadth to control, so it is what it IS.
...
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Categories:
odes, hope, lost love, relationship, true love, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Chinese Translations ShijingThese are modern English translations of Chinese poems of The Shijing or Shi Jing ("Book of Songs" or "Book of Odes")
Shijing Ode #4: “JIU MU”
ancient Chinese rhyming poem (c. 1200-600 BC)
loose translation by Michael R....
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Categories:
odes, desire, family, girl, home, love, marriage, song,
Form:
Rhyme
In the heart of the night, next to the unmoved clockIn the heart of the night, next to the unmoved clock,
She lies, with the pillow—a saline lake of pagan scents,
Mourning something that was never spoken.
Prisoner in the castle of shadows, where darkness
Bearer of chaos, stretches...
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Categories:
odes, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
An Ode To My Grandmother-Jane Mvula[This is an advanced version of a poem
that I wrote on the 5th of February
2008,
titled "The 15th of June" in
commemoration to my late
Grandmother,
Jane Mvula]
_______An Ode To My Grand(Mother)__
______
15 June 1918, was when...
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Categories:
odes, absence
Form:
ABC
Chinese Translations IiiChinese Translations III
Quiet Night Thoughts
by Li Bai aka Li Po
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Moonlight illuminates my bed
as frost brightens the ground.
Lifting my eyes, the moon allures.
Lowering my eyes, I long for home.
Lines from Laolao...
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Categories:
odes, animal, mountains, nature, sound, voice,
Form:
Free verse
The Train of All the LandsWhat could be better than the sight of my room
After a day which nearly did echo with the Devil's name
A day running around to the whims of my boss
A day during which I did feel...
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Categories:
odes, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Quatrain
Loving a PoetessFall in love with a poet at your own risk.
She’ll woo your mind with serenading
notes and undress your defenses
behind metaphors and rhymes.
She’ll merge emotions with home-made
verses in a nectarous word play, opening
the mansion of your...
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Categories:
odes, love, poetess, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Shijing Or Shi Jing TranslationsThe Shijing or Shi Jing or Shih-Ching (“Book of Songs” or “Book of Odes”) is the oldest Chinese poetry collection, with the poems included believed to date from around 1200 BC to 600 BC. According...
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Categories:
odes, bridal shower, engagement, family, happiness, home, house,
Form:
Rhyme
True CompanionA cme yourself, but first be in friendship with the books.
B ooks never beguile you....but always be with you.
C ompanion is word.....and book makes it complete sense.
D istinct aroma of its...
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Categories:
odes, best friend,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Autobiography of a BrookYou've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was my sight! Have reminiscences of your childhood, in my mellow...
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Categories:
odes, care, caregiving, change, childhood, creation, cry, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Pawn to SilenceI was cursed with
ink intoxicating
blank canvases
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken
ebony rose
in satan's grasp,
kneeling...
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Categories:
odes, england, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Truest Odes of WarSuch heavy artillery,
To whom shall we run,
To God have we come,
In pain and sad form,
To state our hearts' deform,
To stake our rights and reforms,
You know that where two Elephants fight the grass suffers,Do be well...
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Categories:
odes, death, education, history, hope, peace, war, war,
Form:
Ode
Coherent Chorus of CompassionI write my thoughts
on paper,
let ink of my soul
glow, amidst the grief
I carry in echoing stillness,
for it...
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Categories:
odes, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Witch HuntThere was an old lady, a frumpy old bag
who people called horrid, a witch and a hag
And 'though she was ugly and danced 'mid moonbeams
all was not quite as it might've then seemed
Old-fashioned black clothing...
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Categories:
odes, community, humor, humorous, people, prejudice, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
The Philosopher's Lament - 2[Continued from Part 1]
“And the efforts of the Senate to extinguish all this fury
Were frustrated by convictions that their god would promptly hurry
To reward and praise the burning of the books in Caesar’s hall:
Pliny, Tacitus...
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Categories:
odes, conflict, history,
Form:
Rhyme
In the land of silvery mists, where dreams touch the groundIn the land of silvery mists, where dreams touch the ground,
A being-abyss struggles, wishing to rise in docile flight and facing a deep fear,
Striving to be a fruitful field, the most fertile version of its...
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Categories:
odes, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Oh, the poet sees you not just as a fleeting shadow that fades into horizonsOh, the poet sees you not just as a fleeting shadow that fades into horizons,
He falls in love as the sun in gold transfigures the curve of your cheeks,
In the line of the smile that...
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Categories:
odes, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Spirit of Swan Lake
" In titanium haze of love,
truth is but a mere lie,
...
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Categories:
odes, angst, betrayal, deep, emotions, heartbroken, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Unaccompanied PathsOnce upon a stranger
A girl A well intentioned woman
With open and adorned soul
Askance behind silvered eyes and sighs,
Revealing her concealed seraphic smiles
In an unending sequence.
Yielded in gleams in day dreams,
With folklores and odes chronicling her...
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Categories:
odes, bullying, child abuse, confusion, dark, depression, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Vision On An IslandNested like treasures priceless, eagle parents watch over the brood
On an island far away from the city, I beheld in a vision of azure blue
A rural settlement in waste laying, arid with black bile
A desolate,...
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Categories:
odes, africa,
Form:
Free verse
Alabaster AnthemsALABASTER ANTHEMS
As artists we should realize that inspiration is often born of pain,
Of loss, suffering, of cob-webbed corners with spiders the size of cats.
But even we eschew the dark masterpieces written for catharsis
In favor of...
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Categories:
odes, art, community, emotions, introspection, voice,
Form:
Free verse