Long Overlooked Poems
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Uyghur Poetry Translations
With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
overlooked, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Thor's Cave
In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a child with her husband, Peter B Perfekt. It was...
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Categories:
overlooked, allusion, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Literary Feud Among - Pt 1
Prelude to what…..
I see you, / you / yes, come into my……
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.
Where Titans...
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Categories:
overlooked, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***
Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to perfection...
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Categories:
overlooked, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Rabindranath Tagore Translations Ii
Patience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...
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Categories:
overlooked, dark, heart, night, silence, spoken word, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Justice In the Quest For Love
I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
overlooked, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Easter Egg Hunt
I don't know how it started
But it's an annual event
But I don't think that an egg hunt
Is the best way to present
The story of our saviour
Chocolate eggs you go and find
I don't think that's the...
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Categories:
overlooked, candy, chocolate, easter, family, funny, garden, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
RED
RED
One hundred years ago in Pollockshaws
A man was laid to rest,
From humble beginnings to a martyr
They buried Scotland’s best.
A man who stood for the people
A man unshaken and proud,
Till the imperialist and capitalist murderers
Connived...
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Categories:
overlooked, anger, appreciation, community, education, history, memory, political,
Form:
Rhyme
We Will Get Our - Hyphen
" We Will Get Our - Hyphen "
...
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Categories:
overlooked, humanity, introspection, life, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 85
“I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but Erlenkönig passed from our world nearly fifty years ago.”
“Fifty years?” He could see the sadness envelope his face as the...
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Categories:
overlooked, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary
[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...
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Categories:
overlooked, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Fussin', Cussin' and All That Nonsense
You see the past in me
I'm alive...I survived the disdainful rainfall
Don't be shy to ask for help
I arrive...undone and I must've lost it all...cuz I get no where in life at all
Can't help, but...
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Categories:
overlooked, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, deep, depression, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Much Love and prayers for all, to come in Unity in Spirit and Truth
Mark 14:62 NIV?
[62] “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
?Luke 21:31-32 NIV?
[31] Even...
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Categories:
overlooked, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Race Track Thinking or My Mind's Raceway
Race Track Thinking
16… little did I know the initiation began. 16 is hard enough navigating adolescence. Hormone dumping, the anguishing struggle to fit in any way—- relinquishing my individuality, and being true to myself. Unbeknownst,...
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Categories:
overlooked, betrayal, conflict, confusion, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
Inception: Sprinkle Salt and Pepper Upon My Distasteful Flavor - Collab With Mikey Part 1
The roof’s the limit, hon, sorry – I can’t change the rules nor can I mask the night with delight that will let you down in the aftermath…
So, stop throwing your two-year-old fits…once again, darkness...
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Categories:
overlooked, courage, depression, dream, emotions, freedom, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was rare...
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Categories:
overlooked, art, conflict, death, flower, pain, self,
Form:
Lyric
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities Viewed
Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
tonight October 25th, 2022
terrifically summarily requoting
poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...
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Categories:
overlooked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Survival
Lisa and I finally tested covid-free! When we saw our results, we began an impromptu dance that felt like levitation.
Although my covid case seemed much milder, Lisa’s been nothing but supportive. Why just yesterday morning,...
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Categories:
overlooked, celebration, emotions, freedom, friendship, fun, humor, teen,
Form:
Free verse
1856 Revisited - PART ONE
It's been just over seven months since I fell off the roof
I'd never believed in miracles, but they happen I'm proof
Apart from a limp when walking I was feeling quite well
And that I'd suffered a...
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Categories:
overlooked, america, death, england, fantasy, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World
I.
In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of consciousness striking against the drumhead of reality.
Listen: the Buzz Roll...
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Categories:
overlooked, childhood, identity, introspection, loss, memory, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Spoken Word
An Interview With a Sinner
The bar is tacky and unclean. The lighting early modern neon.
dead insects litter glowing tubes.
I found him in the corner nursing an empty glass.
“Are you recording this?”
“Yes.”
“Good, very good”
“Let’s get started then. Are you a...
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Categories:
overlooked, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Screaming Souls of a Soundless Forest
I romanticize the single room without a jurisdiction
If only I could filter through a voice of logic over reaction
Would it impel my inner child to regress into an illusion?
My mind composes a structure but...
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Categories:
overlooked, absence, anger, angst, betrayal, birthday, conflict, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Hubs Of Heaven
Catalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
vernal vivid verse drought a derelict damnation for...
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Categories:
overlooked, beautiful, beauty, celebration, city, deep, engagement, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its intricate patterns - so ancient- so old
Her Creator’s mandate she...
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Categories:
overlooked, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Everyone Wears Makeup
Everyone wears makeup.
Not just blush and eyeliner
but masks we paint in silence,
to hide the storms inside us.
We wear it
when we’re trying to come clean
from telling a lie
that lived too long in our lungs.
We wear it
when...
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Categories:
overlooked, absence, anxiety, beauty, courage, fear, life, writing,
Form:
Free verse