Long Rivulets Poems
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Chaucer Translation: Rejection
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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Categories:
rivulets, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
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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Categories:
rivulets, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
rivulets, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
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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Categories:
rivulets, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
as...
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Categories:
rivulets, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Transmigration of the Wind
The strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
rivulets, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
dichotomy -
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were etched
by happenstance??
not even CLOSE, sweetheart
I earned those ragged rivulets one-by-one
and...
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Categories:
rivulets, analogy, break up, conflict, forgiveness, love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
In the Minds Fixed Eye
VIII
In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate"; ...
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Categories:
rivulets, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heart's In the Write Place
Dear promising poet,
for me, modern poetry provides a peek into a poet’s inner world. Through this artistic medium, a poet speaks in expressive language of imagery and metaphor conveying varied textures of emotions and observations...
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Categories:
rivulets, encouraging, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets V-Ix
Sonnets V-IX
Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...
once...
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Categories:
rivulets, love, moon, night, star, time, universe, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
rivulets, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Naive Faith
Dripping wet weeping gold droplets imaginatively spun on elm trees,
a less than poetic splatter on saturated loose grit plain ground overtrodden
to stun the half asleep swooning sapphire riser to allegiance without pietism,
...
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Categories:
rivulets, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty, character, color, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets I-Iv
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the...
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Categories:
rivulets, desire, first love, for her, love, lust,
Form:
Sonnet
Your Devoted Loving Hands
Your devoted adoring Loving hands
Shields the abyss with trance
in utter bewilderment
As every hand is first an apprentice
That slaves beneath The Temple Of LOVE
Your Loving hands have valor and daring
to weave my sorrow into a...
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Categories:
rivulets, courage, devotion, i love you, inspirational, love,
Form:
Lyric
Paranoid
O August, I feel subtle scents
of dandelion days melting,
like spring falls of delirious diamonds,
while memories of sentimental sapphires
flow amidst clouds of colorblind cruelty,
revealing how butterflies
from the temple of fragmented armors
abandoned my spirit
at the altar of...
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Categories:
rivulets, angst, anxiety, heartbreak,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Fashioned Fortitude
A mirror never reveals
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;
time unmutes raven melodies within,
tawny tunes of truth~
I once spoke in colorful dialects.
Now, I trust just...
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Categories:
rivulets, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
The Art Of Soul Gazing
Oh come, dear, sit on this bench with me.
We don’t like all people,
Now do we?
But yet we watch, indubitably!
With spring trees so evergreen,
Dandelions pristine.
Annie, can you see?
There’s a cardinal in that tree.
Oh,...
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Categories:
rivulets, beautiful, celebration, change, children, cute love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Lens of Life
Can blackwater lilies
sing forth sonnets
of daylight and
unsung those
cacophonous notes
of omen, which
rhymed with
sombre elixir
of spruce rivulets and
veiled your crimson
touch of life,
in eons of unforgivable
death?...
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Categories:
rivulets, angst, betrayal, death, emotions, heartbroken, hurt, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Seraphic Embers
I've always
wandered in
venus' orbs,
searching for
the star-seed
of my spirit that
has forsaken
it spiritual
sanguinary and
caged every
fluorescent flicker
in a sculptured
sanctuary of
materialistic
metamorphosis.
Wondering -
what am I,
in the camouflaging
shades of...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, destiny, emotions, life, meaningful, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
I breathe life
Dear me,
I breathe you
in the pulse of erased promises ~
I'm a shadow in your space
and not any voice which can be heard
above restless mists,
so, when...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, emotions, faith, life, meaningful, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
In stars above
Humming in hemlock heartbeats ~
along the shorelines
which once swallowed the sun
in their searing shadows ~
I see those smoking seawaves
swirling upon my skin,
as the silhouettes
of damask dahlia damsels
drizzle and dance
in the tornadoes of
tangerine...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, emotions, imagery, moon, mythology, sea, stars,
Form:
Free verse
diamond diadem of dawn
I'm white s m o k e ,
a silhouette of titanium wings,
tethered to the snowy flesh of a flawless dandelion,
whose skin still remembers ~
the thawing of winter from its...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, destiny, life, light, metaphor, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Eucalyptus Chronicles
"Paying homage to ancestral kyanites,
which once vibrated with indigo streams
in sparks of salient storms ~
I soar across melancholic mangroves,
...
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Categories:
rivulets, deep, destiny, imagery, metaphor, sea, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The World Scorns
A battle rages within,
Silent thoughts behind a hidden veil,
an ice prince some say,
lacking emotions, a player some term
he is an enigma the world doesn't understand
awkward,anti-social, a fly in the wall,
one who is rarely missed,
a friend...
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Categories:
rivulets, identity, life,
Form:
Blank verse
Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the purposes of
our meeting and the very fodder from which...
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Categories:
rivulets, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection, philosophytime, autumn, poetry,
Form:
Quatrain