Long Save your breath Poems

Various Heresies 3

Breakings
by Michael R. Burch

I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.

But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...

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Various Heresies 6

Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch

The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.

Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...

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Please, save me!!
Solitude is speaking, oh so lonely...

We have plenty of gain 
In our pockets, overflowing with light
You are like an airplane,
Landing safely from a fantastic flight 

My beating heart can't take this anymore
The moment...

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We've been riding now, for days
On this dry and dusty plain
Headed to a land, that's never tasted rain
The posse has been thinning out
As men head back to town
So, that just leaves you and me
To track...

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Harming myself softly by healing you hardly 
Faithless phase I was in, you knew...without a clue...
Waiting for God's healing rain
To make me be as plentiful as grain and make me grow insane

Save your breath

The scent...

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CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2

Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial'
translation by Michael R. Burch

1.
Through many lands and over many seas
I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites,
to this final acclamation of the dead...
and to speak — however ineffectually...

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MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Urdu poems about tyranny, the world, sky, sun, wind, night, faith, roses, creation & entropy.

Tyranny adores those who adore the tyrant.
—Mirza Ghalib, translation by Michael R. Burch

Having adopted a mendicant’s rags, Ghalib,
I’m...

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I’ll remain loyal to you for eternity, but I am…
Lost in the chambers of my emotions 
Drifting away into the sea of suicide
Drifting away into the land of innocence…
There’s no where to hide
No where to...

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I like to think 
I could do it if I wanted to 

I tell myself it's situational, these things
It's not your fault,
it's not your fault

Look around
Everything is dying 

And I didn't see this coming 
Far...

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You know not why you're now here, 
just that you are bound by fear- 
(and a couple incised wires) 
watching me, enticed with pliers. 
Naked, cold, taught, and crying, 
you can't move, although you're trying. 
All stretched out, upon your stomach, 
odors...

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...But why limit it to mankind?
that view is much too small,
when animals are considered,
this truth applies to all.
The predator is obvious,
they kill to lie off flesh,
has one ever sworn off the meat?
I haven’t seen it...

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Take my life away from me,

No more false self empathy,

Take my breath, and integrity,


Take this world from my eye,

Remove all which makes me cry,

Show me a reason not to die,


Take this pain from my brain,

Show...

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What happens when your voice is lying 
But the monologue in your head believes you're not?
A full tank of gas, a million excuses to leave 
A conscience computing a mile a minute, hallucinations of reflections...

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Is Like Lifting Tides...

It's Me, I'm...

No One...

Like A Cold Gun...

Never Used...

Only Concider'd The Indever's Clues...

So What Ever The Weather's New's...

I've Got A Barreta Under My Sweater Dude....

Tender To The Agenda Of The Other Gender's Prude......

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Both Mom and Dad felt so very ill at ease.
Impotent when it came to discussing the birds and bees.
Reading up on how to handle a subject so delicate,
Determined to provide Johnny with knowledge accurate!

Sit down,...

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He told her....this way...


Don't say a word....
Just turn out the lights
I don't think I need to hear
What's kept you out all night

So, save your breath
Save that perfect alibi...
No, I won't ask you questions
And you won't...

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there’s a casing on the floor for every lie you ever spun
make a case in pointing out they’re all coming undone
shameless is as shameless does, was there a point to prove?
well, i’ve got just what...

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Gotta move in here move out there, do what you can to prepare. Pay more attention to your bills, be responsible and you'll have more thrills, in life. You wanna make your own rules and...

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My thoughts seek companionship in substance
Substance of the five senses, yes 
But mostly of conscience

Isn’t it torture to go on and on, days across
Pasting social norms over truth
Constantly barely pulling order out of chaos

Can we...

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I wonder what would happen if…
I placed my hand right there
If I…
Kissed your body right here
How you would feel if...
I rubbed your skin right there
Save your breath girl, I’ll be right there

Thinking how your body...

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The Visit   Part 6 

The hospital room was bathed with a warm light.  Prisms of luminosity shone 
and fired out through a mass of flaming red hair.  She was the most...

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I love you, I hate you
I trust you, i don't
you a messed up person
you're the love of my life
i can't stand you
you keep this flame for you lit
din't say nothing to me 
i miss you...

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You can't buy my love,
so keep your diamonds and jewels.
You can't control me,
so don't waste your time.
You can't talk me into staying,
so save your breath.

I gave you my heart,
only to have you rip it out...

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