Long Santa maria Poems

Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...

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Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...

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This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...

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They say,                                 ...

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My most troubling client
told me he died last night.

While this did not appear to be his somber case,
nor, sadly,
did my home office silently resound
like this was his actual historical peace,
I did conjure up sufficient energy
to...

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Columbus In The New World

Three ships sailed under Spanish colours
(The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta)
And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador,
For Columbus and his crew to man-the-oars
To set foot on Terra firma...

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I stand back and gaze across my wonderful garden, in bloom.
There it lies in the morning sun, with petals glistening from dew.

No one realizes the extent of my love for the rose.  As a...

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What formerly got celebrated as adventitious age of exploration...

1492 unleashed, jump/
kick started, and downloaded
a bittorrent götterdämmerung
spelling genocide of indigenous peoples
occupying Turtle Island,
now surviving tribes
just a shell of their former grandeur.

At present Columbus day
linkedin with high...

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When I was young I couldn’t wait to go outside and play
when school was not in session on Christopher Columbus Day.

We were taught all the stories…how he sailed the ocean blue
with the Nina, the Pinta,...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Dark Moon
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February2014


There's 
a dark moon 
rising
over
the Stars 
and 
Strips.....

An ugly 
wicked
dark moon -

It want
go
away -

When you think
that
 the most
heinous 
slaughter 
of
human life,

in
American
history

has
long been
forgotten,

it peeks
through
the
iniquity 
of
minacious 
clouds,

to
reveal
the
unthinkable
genocide,

that took
place
on
American
soil -

An 
ugly wicked
dark
moon,

bleeding behind 
the
shadows
of
senseless 
and
countless,

shed's 
of blood,

on
the
grounds
of
America -

It was
the
worst 
holocaust 
known to mankind -

Still
to this day,
it
stands alone
as the most
catastrophic 
loss of human
life
 in
World...

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I circled the world in a point of time
And I discovered the story 
Of Christopher Columbus’s lifetime
You know, he was born in Italy in 1451?

Young Chris sailed the seas as a felon
Attacking the ships of...

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Maria has Gone

She has gone
She has left
Maria is no more
She has no use for players
She has no use for Juan or his slayers

Adam is caught
In the sheets of his deception
Eva Maria has left, looking for...

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Colorful bombs light up the sky 
Honoring the day America said goodbye 
Like a Father letting go to his daughter 
Freedom was the groom on the other side of the water 
An investment in searching...

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There is a sickness in my heart
It began a long time ago
With three evil spirits that came out of the sea
From the land of the rising sun
Quietly floating on three great canoes.

The mother and her...

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A Fountain for Carmela....
 
In the village of Santa Maria, high in the mountains lived a little girl named Carmela. It has 
always been the tradition of the women to carry water from the well...

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SAILOR   MOON     


Sailor  moon  is rising proud
‘Neath  her sky  of  stars and cloud
A silvery moonlit  trail  she sends
To help us find the...

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LAS NAVES DE MEDERA (Wooden Ships)
They wanted ships. What they got
was wooden shells
not a farthing from the Crown
for these floating buckets.
Six thousand corks, hastily riveted 
into the keel planking, kept them afloat.
Nina. Santa Maria. Pinta.
Nothing...

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One of the four sons of a wool-weaver,
Christopher Columbus became a great navigator,
who went to sea to learn the sailor's skills
and later to discover a land  filled with riches;
rejected by The King of Portugal,...

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Brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici
were co-rulers of medieval Florence in Italy.
Giuliano was murdered by a rival family.
The assassins were from the family, Pazzi.
They were Francesco de Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli.
The infamous event took place...

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contours of the church
sing towards the dusk skies
above the vineyard
and it’s a ghostyard too

sweet machine gun Santa Maria!

there was a murder at the toy store last Sunday
attack of the insomniacs 
one for each sign of...

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something I found hidden in a painting....
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SIC VOS NON " VOBIS "
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thus do ye,but not for yourself....
....used of person's by whose labor's
other's have unduly profited.........

The great thinker's and artist's...

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            Columbus Day Dream
 
Christopher Colombo was the very one.
          Born in Italy 1451.
Day dreamed...

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