Long Servile Poems
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Poems About Dogs
Poems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
servile, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
servile, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Azure Vistas
"Azure Vistas"
Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain falling petulantly on blunt contracts
I glimpsed the sweet refrain of a resurrection
swift upon a...
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Categories:
servile, muse, political, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
servile, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
servile, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Blue Nazarene
“The Blue Nazarene”
caeruleum caelum
in nubibus
caeruleum
caeruleum caelum
in nubibus
de hyacintho nazarene
testimonium:
white stallions,
clouds commanding
Christus imperium
above all below
all below
now present to worship
a secular ghost
stopped dead in their tracks
those ridiculous battalions
games of war...
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Categories:
servile, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T Wignesan
The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan
(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...
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Categories:
servile, creation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Tribute To My Dog
"Who can bear to lose a tie
With a dog that is man’s best ally? .......by poet
"Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel
unable to wag his tail as he always did.
yesterday when I saw him,...
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Categories:
servile, angst, animal, death, dog,
Form:
Free verse
Self Portrait Dedicated To Leon Trotsky Contest
SELF PORTRAIT DEDICATED TO LEON TROTSKY (by Frida Kahlo)
...
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Categories:
servile, allegory, art, political,
Form:
Free verse
Coming Courageously Home
I'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalists once asked
before the polarizing days and nights
of fake right/wrong answer questions
and their...
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Categories:
servile, conflict, courage, health, hero, integrity, peace, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Worry Knot Chokes Out the Living Daylights
Worry knot chokes out the living daylights
I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily aches and pains
as a death sentence,
slept with one eye opened
against...
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Categories:
servile, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The Cloudy Bookshelf
When that storm arrived,
the entire congregation
in genuflection
knelt before
Her poetic prayers,
they saw themselves shining,
eventually, in Her reflection
scandalously quiet
like perculating thunder,
their minds cracking open,
their whole chicken little sky
falling closer ever...
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Categories:
servile, i am, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Petrarch translations into English
PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS
Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind,
replaced by evil in his treacherous mind,
thus robbing man of his Promethean fire,
till his nature, overcome...
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Categories:
servile, dark, desire, evil, heaven, light, lust, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
A Ghost Longing For Mother
There was a man who survived through
everything against his will while he was alive.
One day this man’s ghost arose, walked out of his grave and followed his footmarks on a rugged trail, hard and...
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Categories:
servile, longing, mother, son, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram
The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the raga
the plucking of the yal strings
to the goatskin drummed bleats
and...
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Categories:
servile, devotion, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
NEGRO REPUBLIC
They captured and tortured my humanity.
They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness.
Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration,
To become yet another mop in service of the Republic of...
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Categories:
servile, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
I Always Will...Rodger
Such an interesting color, Rodger -
Green - like our mysterious calico eyes?
Yes?
You?
An idiot savant submits
into me - a blooming
garden of emerald delights? Like our
first encounter - regulated and raw (green).
Drawing our hunter-hued
curtains closed and tittering
in...
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Categories:
servile, loss
Form:
Free verse
The Now Continuum
Beneath the surface of the perceptive mortal senses
the mind nestles the buds of dreams it desires to see bloom.
Allured by avid aspirations into insipid ignorance,
it suffers wandering in...
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Categories:
servile, introspection, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
In the Absence of Complication
In the absence of complication,
trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind
Why, had the circumstances been not so
You would have listened to my frail voice
As...
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Categories:
servile, crush, desire, for him, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Life's Fate
Old servile sleep descends on heavy wings
From laden summits wrapped in icy clouds
When, glassy-eyed, the owl cold midnight rings
And snowy mist the starry light enshrouds.
Atop the ancient firs, the birds lie still
And cling...
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Categories:
servile, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, stars, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Self-Existent Light
Platos dualism…
Laertius' "magi”
The most noble say we are an...
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Categories:
servile, analogy,
Form:
Monorhyme
This Empire Wears No Loser Clothes
You look in your monochromatic mirror
and see a Lincoln Republican.
You read,
"You can fool some of the people some of the time,"
but not all the bicameral folks
all of their deep sacred ecology listening time.
But, you stopped...
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Categories:
servile, confusion, culture, games, health, humanity, humor, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Better Be
Better be a joker than a depressed man.
Better be kind and compassionate than an evil man.
Better be a good man than a bad man.
Better live in the now than live in the then.
Better be courageous...
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Categories:
servile, confusion, corruption, humanity, political, power, rights, society,
Form:
Free verse
The Pavane
"The Pavane"
Autumn leaves
whistle nonchalantly
along the left-behind
paths of serendipity
hesitantly touch fingers
lightly for a while, tipping
lost in the wastelands
winter beckons
love unconditionally
magic listens
and arrives
in the laps go-lightly
of racing hares
tossed salad years
and marshmallow dreams
of servile tortoise
pleasantville sown...
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Categories:
servile, autumn, muse, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Doctor Harold Shipman
With me, during my high-school-days, studied a little boy,
His father was a doctor. This filled him with immense joy;
At his constant demand, once to his dad's study I went,
Seeing the skeleton, to my feelings,...
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Categories:
servile, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form:
Rhyme