Long Proving Poems
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Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
proving, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
proving, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
proving, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
proving, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
proving, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
proving, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was estimating work as per customer enqiriy, this being the case...
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Categories:
proving, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
proving, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
Split Personalities Love and HateYour personality is split right down the middle in the way that is my heart, you should know all about this though, you played your part
You’re the reason I’m here now, living in this pain,...
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Categories:
proving, conflict, hate, heartbroken, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Origin of ChristianityOrigin of Christianity
(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)
It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary were Jewish, both from the tribe of Judah, in the...
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Categories:
proving, bible, christian, faith, history, jewish, religious, truth,
Form:
Didactic
Hope For RespectMy thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.
Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.
Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...
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Categories:
proving, bible, caregiving, culture, health, hope, integrity, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Blind Faith of Lovei am waiting for the right moment..
to tell the world that i am not crazy..
to think and feel who i truly am..
i am who i was crated to live..
dare you try to stop me...
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Categories:
proving, betrayal, death, destiny, fantasy, farewell, fate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Tribute Poems, Composed By Me, For Longfellow BlogThree Tribute poems-- composed by me,
For Longfellow blog….
(1.)
Glory Of Faith's Triumphant Golden Crowns
The rays of morn took their first golden breath
Dispersing powers of night's darkling mists
First gleams romancing sweet the earthen shores
Beating back dark...
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Categories:
proving, art, creation, dedication, deep, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
If All of the Weird Ones Were CroppedThis piece has a fairly tricky rhyme scheme = a-a-B /c-c-B
If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped
I was sittin’ alone in a booth in a deli in Cody, Wyoming one day,
When a...
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Categories:
proving, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Fall of BerlinFall 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:
proving, history, war, world war ii,
Form:
Verse
Knowing Hate, Growing HealthHe who is contented is rich
He who is determined has strength of will
Laotse,...
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Categories:
proving, anger, culture, fear, hate, love, nature, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
The FeelingsOnce in a great while your soul stands up and takes notice of someone and your inner voice screams yes that one. So loud your sure others heard.
When you are apart you can feel your...
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Categories:
proving, love,
Form:
Free verse
RevolutionREVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen can expose the enemies of the state
Present and judge valid...
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Categories:
proving, betrayal, corruption, evil, fear, irony, power, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Domestic MaskI see a rose wilting by the darkness of an abusive husband/
And I feel guilty just standing by and not doing something/
I’m proving nothing with my inactivity and hollow words/
Truth is hard to swallow but...
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Categories:
proving, abuse, dark, poetry, women,
Form:
Rhyme
ThankfulWe use this word every day.
But only just a few of us really mean what we say.
What am I thankful for you ask?
Well, I'm telling you now this is going to be a very easy...
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Categories:
proving, thanks,
Form:
ABC
Earthjazz CommonsZeroSum Spirit
bicameral begins
playing through Ego-Eco Me.
Nondual trinitarian bilaterality
of a Mother Scaling Tree
forecasting and shadowing
WinWin
healthy branching
and rooting properties.
Spirit consciousness,
DNA with RNA tribal strings
of multicolored cooperative intelligence.
ZeroSpirit
fractal-seasoned
developing psychology
phylogeny
homology
toward
WiseElder WinWin GoldenRulology.
ZeroAnimated
AcclimatingMundi,
full-mooned Boody
multiregenerational cosmos
where ev'rything grows living out
and fades...
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Categories:
proving, addiction, community, health, humor, integrity, music, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Seasonal Walks In the Parkbaseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”
A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...
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Categories:
proving, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form:
Free verse
Designer Ways and MeansPermacultural Designers
are taught to multiply the number
and networking depth
of relationships
between species
and organisms
and systems
and cooperative economic networks,
rather than the simpler adding functions
of traditional agriculture;
Where,
if you plant eight crops,
you get eight maybe interdependent functional relationships,
and maybe not...
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Categories:
proving, class, culture, health, integrity, peace, rights,
Form:
Political Verse
Humanity of HorsesMy internal experience of depression
today shames
external ecology of elation,
all I might know as warm extended family
of profoundly peaceful impressions
still bare surviving
at end of this slow-fading thread.
This morning
one Epictetus sentence
speaks of blaming left-hemisphere dominant GodVoices:
"People are...
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Categories:
proving, anti bullying, depression, health, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Rapping About JesusI'm here rapping.
All my fans their clapping.
All the haters laughing.
I don't listen to haters.
Even if their bunch of dictators.
People don't believe in me.
Why should I be rapping for free.
I'm...
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Categories:
proving, cool, faith, god, gospel, heaven, rap, religion,
Form:
Rhyme