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Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Charles 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:
raked, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems
Medieval 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:
raked, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans Translations
Spring
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:
raked, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Oasis
Oasis
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:
raked, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft 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:
raked, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
raked, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony
Introduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to
discern fact from fiction?
Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...
Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...
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Categories:
raked, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter, 1948
WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
raked, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The part of me That Never Lived
It is with tears in my eyes that I write these verses of hope, it is with tears in my eyes I climb the mountain of joy and stands on top of it and...
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Categories:
raked, america, best friend, city, community, dance, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins”
The womb
is scooped like
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost garden explored
overturned and raked,
neatly messed,
in more ways...
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Categories:
raked, muse,
Form:
Narrative
October
When I think about October, ...
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Categories:
raked, color, cool, day, fun, summer, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and confirmation, breeds gratification
analogous to being
the proud papa begetting offspring
progeny growing up at...
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Categories:
raked, absence, africa, animal, baby, creation, miracle, race,
Form:
Free verse
Argh Daylight Savings Time Ends Two Am November 6th 2022
Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022
Hour hands of o'clock get set back
sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn
round about this same day of November
every year, what a bum
er,...
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Categories:
raked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(sweat and tears)
of San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or...
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Categories:
raked, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush, earth, howl, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Vietnam In '68
Vietnam in '68
By Franklin Price
08/10/2020
January '68, I arrived at Cam Rahn Bay
Found out this place, in Vietnam, was the best place I could play
Ground bound, in the Air Force, and living on the beach,
On a...
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Categories:
raked, america, history, war,
Form:
Couplet
Remembering Atari - Part 1
(Unsigned, Sealed, and Delivered)
Part 1:
Oh I worked several years at Atari (1)
Always thinking, "It's too good to last,"
Bushnell's (2) leaving - hand writing on rampart -
Though momentum would carry us past.
Nolan's (2) vision was not...
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Categories:
raked, career, journey, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Seasons of the Heart
1. Winter
A peaceful realm, time itself almost frozen
We play mind games indoors,
Our joy more in fellowship than fresh air,
Rubbing one moment against another,
The friction creating warmth in our hearts.
Yesterday's fireplace ashes, wires to roast marshmallows,
Always...
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Categories:
raked, life,
Form:
Free verse
Which Would You Choose, Brave Soupers
[This is an email I sent to our nephews Mother's Day; it ends with a hard question all of us might want to consider asking ourselves in this epidemic.]
'W. and I went to put flowers...
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Categories:
raked, angst, appreciation, courage, death, fear, god, spiritual,
Form:
Prose
Impotency
This poem is written with a fair of Jamaican Patois but I hope you all get the drift.
Cow Cock Soup
Boy things a get bad, really sad.
Went to bed last night
Mi wife feeling fruity
Mi eyes get...
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Categories:
raked, allusion, black african american, humor, imagination, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Man From the Desert, Part Ii
...They said the diggings had all been tapped out,
ain’t no way a man could strike it rich now,
but there was work for men, hearty and hale,
had I ever thought of wearing a star?
It’s not the...
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Categories:
raked, adventure, conflict, destiny, horse, meaningful, men, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Once I Was a Prince - Part Three
Part Three
...swishing away with your sunshrivelled burgundy knotty arms with broad disdainful harvesting sweeps the cobras come out to water in the sweltering heat by the thatched fly-buzzed hole
your low under-the-breath warning tones...
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Categories:
raked, family, me, water, may, me, time, water,
Form:
Free verse
Pilchard the Penguin and the Snow Penguin
[A classic example of a tale that wouldn’t
Behave itself]
Pilchard the penguin shed icicle tears
He cries at the movies as Christmas time nears
While watching ‘The Snowman’ he claps and he cheers
But cries when the friendly...
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Categories:
raked, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Dark Mermaid
My life and my love are the open sea. I do not fear her and she has come to respect this old sailor man.
Alas, it may be that my life of bliss is only...
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Categories:
raked, conflict, death, deep, sea, water,
Form:
Narrative
Summers Everlasting
Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
a hundred days like this
a sea of endless laughs rolling
like filmreels infinitely looped...
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Categories:
raked, nostalgia
Form:
Free verse
Eye of the Tropical January Sun
Exercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, evolution.
Nuclear power brings a process to earth
that occurs only in space. Dangerous
but...
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Categories:
raked, death, fire, food, innocence, january, senses, song,
Form:
Verse