Long Setting up Poems
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Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
setting up, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Kiss* Single moments of passion can last forever ... (re-posted for a friend) *
...
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setting up, appreciation, kiss, metaphor, passion, sensual, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
setting up, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
setting up, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
setting up, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
setting up, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
setting up, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
setting up, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Energy's Dying WishSo, if I understand correctly,
you want to respond to inevitable energy descent
by upgrading incentives for cooperative communication,
positive information expansion,
research and regenerative design,
implementation,
and ecopolitical evaluation strategies?
Yes,
because we achieved current WinWin cooperative communication
and organic networking capacities
by virtue...
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Categories:
setting up, culture, deep, games, green, health, language, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
setting up, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Games We PlayYang, dear.
Yes, my lovely Yin.
Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.
Really!
How sexist?
Well you seem to associate competitive ZeroSum WinLose
with strong aggressive patriarchal effectiveness
for defending...
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Categories:
setting up, birth, games, gender, health, history, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
setting up, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 70 --Damian Delilah Mallory: the Polly ConundrumMolly and Dolly were in their
New getaway room on the top
Floor listening to music.
While Damian spent time with
The kids in the backyard. He
Wanted to install a pool for the
Youngest children, then switch...
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Categories:
setting up, best friend, feelings, grandson, inspirational,
Form:
Alliteration
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
setting up, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
setting up, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Song of Amergin: TranslationThe Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
setting up, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Republicans For God and CountryThanks for your letter
asking for a free Taoist consult
on how to bring God talk
and experience
back into our Big Agri-MilitantIndustrialized Busyness Schools
and possibly our extended family lives,
on into our inside Holy of Holies,
our Climates of PanEntheistic...
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Categories:
setting up, caregiving, education, happiness, health, integrity, leadership, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
setting up, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted MeUnidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
setting up, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
setting up, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
setting up, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
setting up, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
setting up, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Frog Prince - Part 1A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ever seen,
no matter where...
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Categories:
setting up, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Give Me a Second To Breathe Part 2Pre-chorus: Give me a second to breathe...feeling this tension, this hesitation
Give me a second to breathe...feeling this tension, this hesitation
Give me a second to breathe and feel a pleasant sensation
Drench me with your...
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Categories:
setting up, betrayal, depression, faith, hope, loneliness, missing you,
Form:
Lyric