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Sappho Translations
Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch 

She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...

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Categories: outshine, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form: Epigram



Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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Categories: outshine, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member EcoPolitics of Democratic Healthy Wealth
EcoPolitics intends to be culturally
and ecologically 
normative,
improving in capacity to become historically descriptive
of healthy enlightened minds
in organically
and environmentally safe
empowered bodies.

Politics is about the effectiveness of power 
in anthropological relationships.
Economics is about efficient financial resilience,
sustainable consilience
of...

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Categories: outshine, culture, earth, health, humor, political, poverty, science,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary

[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outshine, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form: Couplet
Trial of Red and White Fire
Centuries ago

In ancient Hermopolis

A debate roared loud

Between a proud Christian priest

And a strange shepherd

Who was a Manichaean

Wearing ragged clothes

And who was looking for sheep

“Flames will consume you”

The priest roared at the shepherd

Because their debate

Was going...

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Categories: outshine, beautiful, fire, religion, religious, spiritual, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Choka



Premium Member FATTI GLI AFFARI TUOI
FATTI GLI AFFRI TUOI THE SIMPLE PLEASURE OF LIFE IS ALL WE REALLY OWN IN THIS LIFE I TRIED TO TELL YOU BUT YOU SURROUNDED YOURSELF WITH A CONVOY OF HATRED TO MURDER ME I...

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Categories: outshine, allah,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 66
She was happy to deliver the news if only to get a glimpse of Lumi.  They had 
met some years back, before he had been exiled to the northern desert.  She thought she...

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Categories: outshine, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Looking Forward To Tomorrow
Looking Forward to Tomorrow 

Verse 1: I had searched around for the love of mine for an awful long time 
My heart is on fire with gracious desire
Don't drag me down with your lack of...

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Categories: outshine, day, deep, depression, desire, friend, hope, love,
Form: Lyric
Love of Our Life
LOVE Of Our Life

Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...

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Categories: outshine, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Earth's Teachable PolyMaths
When Earth’s self-educational story did not yet include the self-awareness resources of DNA,
when all Earth’s Tribes were RNA rooted in composting soil,
what did we learn 
to personally,
and more politically and economically,
more public sectorally,
regenerate self-governance of...

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Categories: outshine, beauty, deep, earth, education, health, history, truth,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Describe Heaven For the Beauty
DESCRIBE HEAVEN FOR THE BEAUTY

For the beauty of heaven Golden gates, made of gold;
Environment perfect temperature not hot nor cold;
Holy dwelling of the Most High Lord ;
For the beauty of heaven;
Can't even begin to comprehend...

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Categories: outshine, celebration, dedication, encouraging, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode to Shree Hanuman

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Categories: outshine, appreciation, courage, spiritual, , hinduism,
Form: Ode
My Grand Aunt
MY GRAND  AUNT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


She is still as elegant as I dare remember
Those early springs: its now late december
She is sitting  with her back perfectly straight
I’m afraid she’ll chastise me for being late
She...

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Categories: outshine, dedication, devotion, family, farewell, heartbreak, life, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Nobody
Mr. Nobody


I am without a voice, in a world of decay,
Because I cannot say why things have turned out this way.
I am without a name, because today,
I am an unknown nobody without a face.


Nobody knows...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outshine, heart, imagination, love, sad love, silence, solitude,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations 
Astronomy…your...

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Categories: outshine, passion, universe,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Etched in Stone

                               Etched in Stone

In the...

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Categories: outshine, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Sagittarian Surety
It is decidedly so,
That I shall go where you go
And in our journeys
I shall never let my love tire
The stars deem it worthy
Your fire is my truest desire

For this is decidedly so
And nobody will quite...

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Categories: outshine, dedication, deep, desire, devotion, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Fairytale Come True- Contest Example
Original poem:  

"a million fairytales tremble at us,
   they know how our love does outshine with flickering light-
sounds of swift ivory doves cry out,
   fleeting into the ebon night; for...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outshine, love,
Form: Rhyme
She Had a Dream I
Be truthful, supposing you were I,
Would you have not snub the thigh?
Opened its teaching; closed one eye
Move swiftly so shy
Rest weather to rely
Not on heart contemplating to comply
The weird moment fitting body's sigh.

How then after...

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Categories: outshine, allusion, art, betrayal, boyfriend, dream, girlfriend, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom Beats Equality, Part I
It seems there’s lots of talk these days
about finding equality,
but little talk of what that means,
at least it seems that way to me.
People with jealous intentions
so like to throw around that word,
use it to justify...

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Categories: outshine, freedom, how i feel, meaningful, philosophy, society,
Form: Rhyme
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 1 by Michael R Burch
These are modern English translations of love poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. These are poems of love, longing, passion and desire.

To Rosemounde: A Ballade
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation by Michael R. Burch

Madame, you’re a shrine to loveliness
And as...

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Categories: outshine, beauty, dance, desire, heart, longing, passion, world,
Form: Rhyme
Contrasting Visions...
As armies continue to march their sanguinary war
lifeless lay those as sinewy gore,
pinnacled soldiers atop a land possessed
making themselves feel they've been blest
	
Bittersweet is the toil of progress
especially for those unacceptable to less
the muses in...

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Categories: outshine, philosophy, socialworld, prejudice, endurance,
Form: Free verse
A Short Transparent Frock: Sappho Translation
Sappho, fragment 155
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

A short transparent frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

NOTE: This is a translation/interpretation of an epigram by the legendary Sappho of Lesbos. Pollux wrote: "Sappho...

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Categories: outshine, clothes, desire, fashion, girl, girlfriend, innocence, longing,
Form: Verse
My Strand of Pearls 2
OH

It is her…she…who parades around in a crown of glory
Compassionately hearing the abused one’s wounded story
Her smile, yes, it is that 
	Luring, forever enduring smile that
			Ensnares, then it cares, is always there, even as it...

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Categories: outshine, lost loveme, love, me, smile,
Form: Free verse
Celtic Grace - 3 - Valentine's Collection
(Valentine's Collection)

(Historic Crown Of Sonnets)

9.
You are Aphrodite before my sight, 
‘cross the night sky our shadows love dance. 
In love’s endeavour, we find our delight, 
together each night we do take love’s chance. 

In the...

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Categories: outshine, desire, dream, joy, love, night, passion,
Form: Sonnet

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