Long Rehashed Poems

Last Night 
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...

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How might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?

A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and WhiteMale monotheistic

How might even Republican Red MotherTrees
avoid secularized Self-serving
by Capitalizing...

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I think perhaps, there is no sadder thing to know
   then many of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
In reading those familiar bardic words
   I find I could be scared 
...

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Translations of Urdu couplets and poems by Momin Khan Momin

Perhaps
by Momin Khan Momin
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
 
The cohesiveness between us, you may remember, or perhaps not.
Our solemn oaths of faithfulness, you may remember,...

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he stood to watch
at the bar from a distant
stance from far
she took a drink
so confused 
on booze he makes his move
and he thinks
and he thinks
if the keep of the 
bar
will kindly take her keys
he will...

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People crave to belong
We all want to pull together
We hope to get along
We wish to live in harmony with each other

Ideally it would be great if we all got along
In the real world this is...

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Anonymity is my name
Alcohol was the beast 
I couldn’t tame
At another Double A meeting
get to hear some more shame
Rehashed, 
warmed over war stories,
they all sound the same
Now, it’s my turn
to go to the center of...

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birth, creation, dark, death, earth, history, metaphor

OUTSIDE-IN---INSIDE OUT! ©   TANKA

Very green flushed carpets
Sky blue azure topped ceilings
Tree branched sofa chairs
Mirror sea rippling four walls 
Windows and doors shut!


REBIRTH!  © TANKA

Infant birthing new...

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The sounds of wolves howling... echoed loudly,
deep in the solitary woods of no mans land,
While the blazing campfire shared its hearth proudly,
heating the pot of coffee Kid Colt had close at hand,

Each day rehashed such...

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ANOTHER WAR 

To kill another man in the name of liberty
Is the rehashed creed of global greed
To some a country is free only if
It deserves to be 
No thought for the individual calamities
Visited on the...

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I know where I stand
But I stand alone
I know where I have been
But I have been their alone
I know where I have fallen
But I have fallen all alone
I know where I’ve been wrong
And I’ve been...

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Apologies have the potential to be sincere,
Forgiveness is rarely sincere or realistic,
With every mistake you bury yourself alive,
One more foot deeper than before,

You can feel your lungs collapsing as you gasp for a pitiful breath,
You...

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Imagine this, your heart is racing.
You’re nervous about meeting someone new.
You have so many scenarios running through your head,
But you stay the course.

The excitement flies like butterflies.
The adventures so new, it’s worth every minute
But the...

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Secret Ballot Impeachment
By Franklin Price
1/28/2020

Trump impeachment now in process
Is on the Senate floor.
The Democrats have said their piece,
Rehashed the House, and not much more.

Republicans now have their turn,
Of course, they will defend.
There may be more...

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you are wasting your words, 
your preaching, no longer 
applies, 

your mistaken reality 
your own words, you cannot 
rely, 

you place your faith, on experience, 
these lessons in life not learned, 

the personalities you've corrupt...

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In a dream of bare, I awoke
In the blared walls, it misspoke
The winds of Auria eluded in the cascading windows which then provoked 
Envisions of  Auria descended through the glistening saint
Without a flair, I...

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My heart erupts like a volcano
bursting with scathing songs,for 
the lobes of tyranny,fattened
by the deceptive lyrics,from 
sycophantic lips

My tongue,a molten kalam,shall
consume the valve of fear,preaching 
caution to frustrated souls,now
my music must rise ,from 
the din...

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It’s strange somehow thinking about the times I’ve spent in relationships yet;
Few have ever had the chance to really know me.
Just bits and pieces rehashed and concocted; 
From a world he quietly calls “the Halls...

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Succumb to a rabbit hole, avalanche perception
Compiles tiles sliding, interchanging hues
Collapses cement rigidity command of tension 
Cube covers corners interior cog subdues

Determined digits dive in darker dire dimension
Coming to glinted dug river bed treasures
Coalesce of...

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Out of all the relationships I’ve ever been in, few really ever knew me.
Just bits and pieces rehashed, concocted and dispensed from;
A world I know as the files from my performing arts.
   ...

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redundant stories
way out from left field
old yarns and tales rehashed
selective memories
of a past we won’t let go

wasted time and opportunities
killing time that should be precious
ongoing whining about getting old
aches and pains the topics of choice

you...

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Gold Within The Ink May Heart's Depths Relay

The gold within the ink, it truly glows
As golden afternoon sun slowly sinks,
Night arrives to gift its many shows
As midnight owl its eyes rapidly blinks.
The prancing moon its...

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Today you twitter, then you tweet,
as though to make your lives complete,
by echoing thoughts of people you admire.

Anticipating that great twitter,
you clutch your phones to reconsider,
the text-ed words of wisdom you desire.

You twitters prattle thoughts...

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Sheer boredom has me at this torpid end
Another rerun; please give me a break 
The short list of scripts to which they pretend 
I simply just can’t find one flying fake

Perhaps I’ll jump up on...

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I'd like to step back in time a bit
And mention the dinosaur.
He lived two hundred million years
And then was seen no more.
The dino's demise is a mystery
That's hashed and often rehashed here.
One fav'rite hypothesis seems...

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