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Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage. 


Violets
by Michael R. Burch

Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...

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Categories: peasants, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Erin
Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...

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Categories: peasants, ireland,
Form: Sonnet
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...

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Categories: peasants, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form: Sonnet
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 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: peasants, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form: Free verse
My Spirit Animal
The soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...

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Categories: peasants, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member THE PEPPERMAN IN THE GALLERY OF PUBLIC OPINION

I opened a door in the Universe 
and found myself in the gallery 
of public opinion. 
A serious debate was taking place
over Freedoms
and God given rights.

On one side several thousand people 
proclaiming Slaves have No...

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Categories: peasants, america, atheist, crazy, freedom, future, identity, political,
Form: Free verse
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
 After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...

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Categories: peasants, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
My most popular poems on the Internet (III)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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Categories: peasants, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
The Peasants Truck
Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...

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Categories: peasants, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fall of Berlin
Fall Of Berlin

There on the wall hangs a mixture of paint on linen,
Leaving the impression of a city besieged, encased in ice;
Purposely frozen in horror to remind the living,
Of blood oozing from the rubble into...

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Categories: peasants, history, war, world war ii,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Van Gogh
Endless sunflower field 
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches 
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...

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Categories: peasants, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form: Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos Radnoti
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti

Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...

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Categories: peasants, holocaust, murder, race, racism, war, world, world
Form: Free verse
The Tale of the Unexpected Prince
The Tale of the Unexpected Prince
	I sat in my lonely castle room looking out of the window. The village below was a flurry of activity with peasants going about their busy day. I sighed. I...

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Categories: peasants, family, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.

Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these  carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...

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Categories: peasants, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his...

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Categories: peasants, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Basil the Bogomil
Basil the Bogomil and his good friends were preaching the truth in all its light, about Jesus Christ’s mercy in the world’s pitch darkness. Though they harmed no man or creature, asking for no riches,...

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Categories: peasants, betrayal, friendship, history, jesus, prejudice, religious, truth,
Form: Prose
A Fading Queen
A FADING QUEEN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

She had  all the feminine gifts those many years ago
Drawing stares from everyone where ever she’d  go
Back in high school, she was the center of attraction
In every classroom, she...

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Categories: peasants, analogy, celebrity, cinderella, heartbreak, loneliness, nostalgia, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
This Is Where the Money Is
I circled around the park three times and continue journeying towards the west
On my first cycle I met a couple sitting on the corner watching me like big brother
The young man shouted at me in...

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Categories: peasants, betrayal, corruption, education, endurance, environment, father daughter,
Form: Narrative
A Pool of Blood
Blood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along the river bank
With long guns strapped to their sides
And big...

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Categories: peasants, change, city, conflict, courage, extended metaphor, immigration,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water Iii
Shallow-pitched tiled rooftops sparkle vividly
 When lavishly sprinkled with needle-shaped grains  
Of shattered mutton-fat nephrite; 
    There, clinging forlornly against the hanging grey   
  Smoke, tinged with barely...

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Categories: peasants, community, life,
Form: Free verse
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.

Their...

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Categories: peasants, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Famine A Nation Starved


If I could have chose to love another, 
And the heavens had fallen from the sky, 
And the fields which offer little or no hope,
Would I have chosen another love, or die?

If the ravages within...

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Categories: peasants, death, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....

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Categories: peasants, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haiti, Haiti: the Decisive Battle of Vertieres
Haiti, Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Martyrs
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Great Slaves
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Ancient Braves
For many, the betrayed Land that matters.

Haiti, Haiti, the volcanic land of Fire
Haiti, Haiti, the land of...

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Categories: peasants, africa, black african american, courage, death, race,
Form: Free verse
The Branches
Thorns and prickles dangle at the root of the tree and the temperature is shouting at a hundred and seventy degree; destiny is baking a global cake and you have to get your slice before...

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Categories: peasants, business, career, color, creation, culture, earth, i
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs