Long Sapphic Poems

I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...

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Let me give the facts straight
I didn't write this poem because I want to entertain you by my fascinating wordplays
I didn't write this poem to bring you to the deepest depth of my emotions
I didn't...

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Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler!
I implore you, dread mistress, discipline me no longer
with such vigor!

But come to me once again in...

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David was a young man, David had courage
But David’s courage worried him somewhat!
Citizenship policy needed a Don
Leading by example was attractive, but forlorn 
And Locke’s dominative turn had shattered the Kings’ celestial deity 
Leaving very...

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IMPATIENT LOVER

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A Girl and a boy both go to music school.
The boy and girl get an audition for a Record Label. 
The both go to the audition and both of them get the chance to go...

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Sappho fragment #2
translation by Michael R. Burch

How can I compete with that damned man
who fancies himself one of the gods,
impressing you with his "eloquence" ...
when just the thought of sitting in your radiant presence,
of hearing...

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Seriously questioning my own judgement
how could I have chosen you as my soul mate;
When look back to relation find I've ignored
some obvious signs.

Probably, I was looking through lens of my
desires, fully obsessed by own passionate
feelings;...

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*Image of Education by UY.

A Cog in The Machine

Life advances their kind of entrusting stays,
origin of roots possessing foundation,
flung to care sprouts variable promises,
~~executes each seed.

The great void advents the id of emptiness;
launched needs, yet...

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Lemony pines spring from my Summer mind,
dangling their scent, like Christmas ornaments.
I close my eyes and follow the sapphic breeze.

My bronze feet bounce through the mossy sea.
Feeling giddy in this faerie paradise.
I dosado amidst lichen...

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There's a sullen bareness in the atmosphere, almost as if the breaths have all receded to a stop and the world has slowed down on its axis. 
Laziness drips like honey all over the place...

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ABC of Poetry 

A is for Abcedarian which is what is this poem’s aim 
B is for  Blank Verse which is metered rhyme with scheme

C is for Chant Royal with six stanzas, same refrain
D...

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Violet:
Little bits of blue
Violets are blooming in fields
And in the meadows.
Violets rage
with indigo pulses
beneath the shadows
of your parents' porch;
Spitting purple, but 
soaking the rainbow
from whatever light
granted by the sun.
Violets 
The word tingles me 
Somehow.
I don't...

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(Hardly anything is known about Sappho, but no-one seriously 
doubts her greatness as a poet.  She lived on the Greek island 
of Lesbos (hence “Lesbian”) in the seventh century BC. All that 
has survived...

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(Hardly anything is known about Sappho, but no-one seriously 
doubts her greatness as a poet.  She lived on the Greek island 
of Lesbos (hence “Lesbian”) in the seventh century BC. All that 
has survived...

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Why do we not listen? Why do we not hear the sound in the distance? Why do we feel we have to talk over a whisper? Why can't we hear a voice a little more...

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we started together,
you and i.
we grew as we
wandered this earth,
the smell of soil permeated our senses.
we stayed so close 
our roots began to bond,
the origin of our creation
became a union, an abomination.

given the choice 
between...

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What a place to find much-needed peace of mind,
to cast all nagging woes of the day aside.
This is the place to be; such an ideal place...
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Together forever was the language, a love like never before

From time to time at night, sitted the beacon at the beacony

Gazing at the stars and moon all alone, racing in my mind thoughts of her

I...

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Hushed whispers rise with the moon,
Tiny footsteps cross the cold linoleum,
I saw it all in the morning room,
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Inevitable that we should reach that age,
when our mind is past the delusional stage,
the Sun has not far to go before setting,
when we reach mystic sixty!

Perception, tolerance and attitudes change,
Fate reads our life book, smiles,...

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Going to school, meeting colleagues & students,
pulled off my time
Sharing tons of laughters,was a shrill of joy
Explaining the chapters with vivid examples gained 
a good rapport.
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“I open the door and cross the threshold of imagination”

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Lavish locks sprawl pillowed in peace this morn.
Gently whiskered cheeks hint of last night's lipstick
Tensions banished blue grassy fiddling lingers
Let's take it easy

I'll make the omelets
while...

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I didn't find PSoup,
no, PSoup found me
I was a poet from my birth,
just not the poet I could be
Before coming to PSoup,
I was a message poet with my own style;
the words I delivered
could make you...

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