Long Remus Poems

Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....

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Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.

I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...

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Medieval Poem V

A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.

2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...

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Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

(excerpt)
He who granted me life...

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Lupercalia
O! Yon Pagan festival Come on come all
Merry men named Valentine Two of which
One who was a priest in third century Rome
He whom defied Emperor Claudius II ban on marriage
His reasoning for banagement he thought...

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What a sad day out on the farm;
A raccoon got a chicken, did harm.
At the edge of the heather,
The large pile of feathers
Was enough to raise the alarm.

Bat and Gat knew they’d need an assist,
So...

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*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed eternal ... plus righteousness,
escapism from existence ... edges evacuation,

Birth ere...

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I WANNA KNOW
                (Children's Rhyme intended for Picture Rhyme Book)

 Would the haunted house be creepy if it had no...

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In similar kind the blood of violent dynasty's
remains distinct without conscience 
its empire of centuries
branded hot upon the slave born sweat 
and to dictatorship
bring the mind and soul of greed
for in the bestial mouth
ever shall...

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My Continuous Incredible Poem Series is
dedicated to Will Rogers, Robert Frost and
Ogden Nash who I forever will admire and
use as examples to follow. With them as 
examples how could any of your poems
possibly go wrong....

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https://youtu.be/Z1hAGvzB8Nk

The prominent years, of which did last
Great heights of power, of centuries past
According to legend, thy Rome we build
Twin brothers afore, o’ Remus killed

O’ city of Rome, of which we name
A land of power,...

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A. Hatta asked

Q.”...why is the Raven like a writing desk?...”

because 
it’s a.haven 
Artemis 
and not a fowl quill
he said... ah!
x

...

more regulus 
then romulus
and brighter 
then remus
i’d say
but not quite 
so famous
the heart of a lion
called...

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We’ve heard of brothers who didn’t love
but hated their siblings instead.
And there were some who went so far 
as to want a brother dead.

Cain slew Abel, Romulus killed Remus
Jacob tricked his brother Esau.
And brother killed...

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I have some stories from my childhood, so very long ago.
 Which is legend, fairy tale or real, is very hard to know.

Did I not see Paul and his blue ox plowing up the prairie?
Were...

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There is a city in Europe where Romans do dwell
The beginning of which must have been hell

Founded by twins once sentenced to die
And nursed by a she-wolf. They came to defy

The horrible uncle that tried...

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Hey A Diddle, Diddle

The Cat has a riddle...

So when the dish ran away with Spoon

What station did little dog craft

giving big dog reason 

to laugh at noon...

"... she works the wire..."



Regulishus!

More Regulus then Romulus

and brighter...

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Sorceress Polgara ascended above all warriors;
Fought wars against mighty kings and came out victorious...!

Remus Lupin, into a werewolf magically turned;
As great professor, taught thrillingly and his living earned...!

Count Dracula transformed all great and small into...

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Since 1983, I spent each year
With her, or reasonably near
O to think I once was young, in love
With U (USA) running from African woe
That apartheid in South Africa
Yet I hadn't planned to leave her
I'd visit...

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not yet a poet laureate?

Myrtle! I say, (she's a tree of lowly lineage,)
unwind your limbs from the lordly pine.  I saved
him from the builder's saw, the gaping yaw
of someone's fire.  I claim this...

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I want to write a happy song.
A catchy song that's not too long.
A song like Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Zip-a-Dee-Day.
Uncle Remus sang long ago in his day.

I have the urge to write something that will cheer.
Most things in the...

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Perhaps we have loved before
in the Lupanar of Pompei
goddess of Priapus
the overseer
of the fertile garden
commanded me.

We perspired upon pillows
stuffed with reeds
feathers and straw
most unwitting lady
whispered to me
"You will be Priapus!"

Content within you
likeness of dedicated fruit
made...

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The city where I was born was destroyed
by the  dam breach, the house where I lived
became flooded rubble...
I didn't learn to swim there
So I came to Rio de Janeiro...
The city welcomed me with cents
...

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