Long Oeuvres Poems
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Poems About Things That Break IPoems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
oeuvres, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break IiiPoems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
oeuvres, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan
Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...
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Categories:
oeuvres, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
oeuvres, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sonnets Lxxi-LxxxSonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
oeuvres, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's Final Version Vowels In Contemporary TermsA Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's Final Version " Vowels " in Contemporary Terms
(" Vowels " (final version, without the definite article, with the poet's corrections) in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris...
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Categories:
oeuvres, analogy, color, sound, surreal, symbolism, word play,
Form:
Sonnet
Conquistador, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Tercets: ConquistadorConquistador, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s tercets : Conquistador
Message to fellow soupers: I have been trying to upload, in vain, yet another translation of a
Paul Verlaine poem titled: "Ballade in favour of those called...
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Categories:
oeuvres, patriotic,
Form:
Romanticism
Will You . . .?Hark there kind sir, what brings you here?
A message for my lady, from Sir Lyle Gere
He penned these lines, for her gentle ear
Would you have this delivered, pray kind sir
Indeed I will, my word is...
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Categories:
oeuvres, funnyme, old, hope, life, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Ballade: In Favour of Those Called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine's PoemBallade : In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade en faveur des dénommés Décadents et Symbolistes
for Léon Vanier*
(The texts I use for my translations are from : Yves-Alain Favre,...
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Categories:
oeuvres, poetry,
Form:
Ballade
Tu Le Fera, N'Est-Ce Pas, Papa- Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Won'T You, Dad By T WignesanTu le fera, n’est-ce pas, Papa ? – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Won’t you, Dad ? » by T. Wignesan
Si toutes les jolies mélodies
de ce monde eussent été chantées
et toutes les chefs d’œuvres des...
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Categories:
oeuvres, child, faith, hate, holocaust, love, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: Souvenirs De Prison, March 1874Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Souvenirs de prison, March 1874*
(Verlaine was sentenced to serve a term of two years in prison for having shot his erstwhile lover in the arm/hand, the legendary...
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Categories:
oeuvres, angst,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's the Vowels In Contemporary TermsA Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's " The Vowels " in Contemporary Terms
(" The Vowels " in the Paul Verlaine (first version) copy in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris : Livres de Poche/La...
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Categories:
oeuvres, color, magic, metaphor, surreal, visionary, word play,
Form:
Sonnet
An Antiquated BeingIn an orb of knowledge, walks a colored girl.
Her celestial being is ethereal.
Abreast is she of her past but fragile to the imminence.
Her strides are hindered because once she was poor and her life was...
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Categories:
oeuvres, gender, girl, god, how i feel, identity,
Form:
Free verse
No Getting Back To Normal, a 9-11 PoemNo Getting Back to Normal, a 9-11 Poem
by Michael R. Burch
for the survivors of 9-11
Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot
of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel;
add artificial sweeteners to conceal
the bitter...
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Categories:
oeuvres, cheer up, cry, death, depression, family, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Break Time, a 9-11 PoemBreak Time
by Michael R. Burch
for those who lost loved ones on 9-11
Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot
of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel;
add artificial sweeteners to conceal
the bitter aftertaste of loss....
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Categories:
oeuvres, america, bereavement, conflict, death, death of a
Form:
Sonnet
Claude Monet paintingI am devastated, dumbfounded, dismayed,
These people are so stupid, or crazy,
They threw some hot soup
On a painting by Claude Monet,
These people are ridiculous, wicked,
Who will listen to them? Not me,
How can you believe what they...
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Categories:
oeuvres, appreciation, culture, rude,
Form:
Free verse
DinnerDINNER
Tonight we’ll dine
At a restaurant fine
.To order, we’ll start
With the French words,
Entrée and a la carte.
Hors d oeuvres, escargo,
Brei and dubonnet.
If those mean food,
Why don’t they say?
Foi gras and boeuf.
Grass-fed beef?
Next on...
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Categories:
oeuvres, culture, food,
Form:
Light Verse
I Just Can'T WinMany
contestants;
great,
small,
experts,
novices.
Many
entries;
masterworks,
masterpieces,
chef d'
oeuvres,
magnum
opuses,doggorels.
Well
experienced
Judges
with
wonderful
tastes for
poetry,
Ready and
eager to
have my
lines
examined.
With my
blunt
pencil and
grandpa's...
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Categories:
oeuvres, angst
Form:
Free verse