Long Rabble Poems
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Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI 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:
rabble, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith 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:
rabble, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
TaporaLike Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
rabble, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
rabble, society,
Form:
Quatrain
The Verdict. NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...
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Categories:
rabble, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4
I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...
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Categories:
rabble, bullying, character, corruption, discrimination, men, vanity, women,
Form:
Lay
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 3Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned their character on personal experience
Yet these damned hypocrites are themselves...
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Categories:
rabble, abuse, corruption, earth, i am, life, men,
Form:
Lay
Three Colored PigsOnce upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.
People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change
by her delightfully demented transparents.
Most all credible scientists in that day
were...
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Categories:
rabble, dream, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Tyranny Counts the Ballots“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
rabble, political,
Form:
Rhyme
What Have I Seen?1
Sunrise, late winter
skunk smell
turkey flock
playful otter, too.
The white heron
a great blue,
white phase,
in the abandoned beaver pond.
Purple clematis
its long-awned achenes
in globose heads
spidery, fiery, extravagant fruit!
To identify or classify
birds by
the complexity or beauty
of their songs.
And so
what is...
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Categories:
rabble, allah, girl, nature, peace, prayer, war, writing,
Form:
Verse
becalmed
* Content Warning: this poem touches on physical/emotional abuse*
~
“dabble, dabble
roiling...
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Categories:
rabble, abuse, analogy, murder, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom From CondemnationShe struggled frantically as she was yanked from the bed
Hauled into the street straight to the temple, no match for her rabble size
With bare foot struggling to find their footings
Hammered fear, cold deafeningly in her...
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Categories:
rabble, angel, character, faith, fate, happy, heart, hope,
Form:
Narrative
The Mad Man In the CornerTHE MAD MAN IN THE CORNER
By Roy Merritt
A mad man in the corner was ranting on insane
A man who was blinded wracked with mental pain
He couldn’t believe they lost couldn’t believe this be true
No they...
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Categories:
rabble, angst, anniversary, anxiety, conflict, fear, heartbreak, political,
Form:
Rhyme
The RavingFrom 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.
Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who persist to query me on matters they know I must...
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Categories:
rabble, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form:
Narrative
I Am Also Not Perfect1. Your few dents don’t join to form a rabble
I am still in growth, talking in babbles
not bad to be a hen and a sparrow
still much needed by me, a straight arrow
from the two sides,...
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Categories:
rabble, appreciation, character, i love you, longing, love,
Form:
Lyric
Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part TwoAchilles, The Journey To Troy,
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)
Achilles, The Journey To Troy
Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods sent that day
mighty king suffered, his treasure stolen away,
power of...
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Categories:
rabble, art, death, hero, literature, mythology, tribute, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost Love Deliria - Part 3 Part 3
9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured prisons, ponies bridled ... yearning,
forest fairies under thumb
Sounds inside of cauldrons coughing......
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Categories:
rabble, lost love, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Caravan of CourtshipSire she's been sighted
two miles south of Sinai,
our sentinels say she has brought a river,
her baggage train stretches into the ancient sands,
the envoys of her retinue spoke of marvelous gifts,
beasts and creatures of the Orient
gems...
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Categories:
rabble, history, love,
Form:
Romanticism
Esmeralda, As Told By the Poet Pierre Gringoire - With Apologies To Victor HugoI had been placed in chains
Where the cripples shed their canes
And the blind regained the art of seeing.
It was a robbers’ den
And as all God fearing men,
I had assets needed freeing.
Sometimes...
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Categories:
rabble, allegory, desire, literature, romantic,
Form:
Lyric
Halloween EyesElegant in burnt orange afterglow,
sparkling starlight opens the show.
Neighbors and strangers appear all aroun’,
porch lights and car lights enlighten the town.
They arrive afoot and atop handlebars.
Tots wave from strollers like famed movie stars.
Mothers...
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Categories:
rabble, candy, children, halloween, holiday, humorous, kid,
Form:
Rhyme
They Stole My Crown“They Stole My Crown”
©2021 Jerry Brotherton
On the eve of Coronation Day, the old king had lost the fight.
He called his court jesters together; told them something didn’t seem quite right.
All in my kingdom love me,...
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Categories:
rabble, poetry,
Form:
Lyric
What the Rabble Have DoneThey taxed us without our consent,
we who though we were Englishmen,
said we had no say in governance,
so we simply boycotted them,
threw their tea into the harbor,
let them know that we’d had enough,
they sent troops to...
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Categories:
rabble, adventure, america, england, history, patriotic, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Dickensian TimeIn Dickensian time
Upon sunset hour
Overshadowing Thames
Is London Tower
Blackened cobble streets
Shimmer in the rain
Big Ben at Westminster
Chimes an eight bells refrain
At Euston Station
A passenger alights
On Platform 3
And enters the caff
for a nice cup of tea
At...
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Categories:
rabble, places,
Form:
Free verse
2 Ways To Go Which 1 ChoseOn the news today
The headline storyline was presented
and reported as follows
In Liverpool today some local right wing
protestors who's arms are up in flame's
replacing pitchforks for placards
Which was later retracted in place
of rabble of...
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Categories:
rabble, slam,
Form:
Free verse
All the Dark Stallions
"All the Dark Stallions"
Calliope burns
ecstatic bright star
fire brands, all her marks
both hands
holding the ropes
firmly fast today
slow burn
tomorrow
warm whispers
gently towards
the unlit shadows
love wanting always stays
driving all
the dark stallions
towards heaven
where the...
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Categories:
rabble, dark, romance, word play,
Form:
Free verse