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Deception Part 2 - Translation From Tagore
This is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted.
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Categories:
oppressed, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
The Power of My Pen
I have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
oppressed, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
oppressed, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
oppressed, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
oppressed, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Medieval Poems Iii
Medieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
oppressed, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Psychotripic Theory of Everything
Compassion co-arises nondually
internal-external.
Today I want to talk about possibilities
for integral polycultural dynamics,
which are systemic relationships,
correlations,
between LeftBrain deductive ego-mind,
RightBrain inductive eco-body,
and a boundary between these bicameral landscapes,
which we call unconsciousness.
The feasibility
and health value
of recognizing this...
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Categories:
oppressed, community, political, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
The Warfare
Living in a war- wrecked, grass thatched hut, ...
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Categories:
oppressed, abuse, bullying, conflict, war,
Form:
Free verse
Being American
I live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
oppressed, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In My Alphatown
In our wildly indigenous
western town
we have a notorious Ancient GoodWitch.
Like GrandMother Moon,
she seems to emerge with a new, yet old,
community healing process
about once a FullMoon month.
I heard she would like to co-facilitate
a Future HealthWealth Community...
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Categories:
oppressed, caregiving, culture, games, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Michelangelo: Modern English Translations
MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
oppressed, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Let's Be Kinder
In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
oppressed, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
In America June 14th Equals Flag Day
In America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.
"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...
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Categories:
oppressed, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Limerick Collaboration-Join In-New Additions
If you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.
Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...
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Categories:
oppressed, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Transformational Curiosity
That's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
oppressed, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
If We Were Gods
If we were Earth gods and goddesses,
with powers to create anything we prefer
for our healthiest wealth attainment,
would we settle for living in a swamp
created by our own collective lack of mindfulness
about how to play longer-term...
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Categories:
oppressed, creation, education, health, humor, love, political, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
oppressed, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Racing Justice
"The way I see it,
we're all related."
said my EcoTherapist.
While DNA and RNA include infinite permutation possibilities,
their primal core functions suggest simple bipolar relationships
between who's inside and what's outside,
and who is dominant so the Other recessed,
perhaps...
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Categories:
oppressed, journey, peace, race, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
oppressed, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Oppressor and the Oppressed
Oppressor and the oppressed.
Who is the oppressed and who is the oppressor?
Who has the right to beat a random person on the street?
Who has the right when to pronounce a person guilty or to see...
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Categories:
oppressed, bird, character, corruption, future, nostalgia, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Turkish Poetry Translations I
Turkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes...
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Categories:
oppressed, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Face of Modern Slavery
A shameful act in this world we live today
surely an educated mind can clearly see the truth behind a mask
Ignorance is the hardness of heart manifests in such violence
The horrors and inhumanity of it...
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Categories:
oppressed, christian, dark, emotions, truth, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Stolen Illumination of the Star
STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR
This journey has not been a fanciful adventure,
we're all settlers in these dynasty of neo-colonialism
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes
victims of civilized inducement,
terms of...
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Categories:
oppressed, political,
Form:
Narrative
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
oppressed, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Outside Voices Choices
Some of us,
admittedly too few
in my detached opinion,
still search for Beauty in metrics
and for Truth in arts
and integrity in secular humanity
with and for sacred divinity
studies.
Probably few LeftBrain dominant Egos
ever thought to bother RightWing...
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Categories:
oppressed, anti bullying, bullying, growth, happiness, health, identity,
Form:
Political Verse