Long Silkworms Poems

Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.

I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...

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Medieval Poem V

A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.

2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...

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Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

(excerpt)
He who granted me life...

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A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was held captive El...

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A post from the past.....just trying to put down all the ones I have written but deleted when I left the site for a while......this is almost too long, but I couldn't find which animal...

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Sunny yellow straw hats with ribbons and bows,
Butterflies that shine when the full moon glows,
Feather cushions scattered of bright pink and blue, 
Buttercups and daises have such a magnificent hue,
The above are my dreams as...

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This song of verse reminds
Will love still be love
Or will it alter when it
Alteration finds?

For should we not still be kind
When the light
 in the hearts of those we loved has dimmed?
Should we not be...

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Spin Now an Angel’s Gown

Dedicated to Father Johnnie E. Ross


     When a tree so desires to sing and dance,
It becomes a home for the fabric of angels’ gowns.
   ...

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An Asian girl is a beautiful princess in her own right. She's the crown jewel in the lives of all American guys, even me. Even though this awesome Asian girl doesn't have a crown on...

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I came about when the world was hot and embroiled in a rumble.
     When transit men carried all they had in a frayed bundle.
     When steel was...

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A small caterpillar was questing for the food
It entered the obscure region to search
Fortunately a man escorted the kid
and kept it in a box to end its quench

It was like a bolt from the blue...

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He'll eat white mulberry leaves
it's softness...dose not compare
he spins the luster silken threads
to whom ?...today, will wear 

She wears her dress of finest silk
a special day, some say
her swept up hair, red sandals too
how graceful......

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Nature poetry about the Louisiana bayou.




It's a good morning in the bayou,
as a breathtaking view of dawn's light breaking out.
Beaming rays of sun spilling all about.
The morning fog is gone and darkness washed away.
A spider...

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STEEL AND SILK

My love like steel and silk
      cuts through you 
            splutters your blood
    ...

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     Larvae of certain Butterflies 
     exhibiting a real surprise :
      eating only mulberry leaves ,
     though it...

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(Mulberry trees talk among themselves
About the butterflies that ignore them)

Butterflies love oaks, elms, and willows; we know.
They play hide and seek with their leaves tinged with snow.
Do they flee from us because we are crook-barked?
Around...

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Oh Mourning Cloak butterfly, to where and to whom  do you fly 
Oh Admiral Butterfly,  so many mirrors to count before you die 

Oh Jezebel Nymph I  love the way you sit...

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words are not well today; starched
you ate them up like bread
in a box they slowly spoiled; parched
charnel house for the unsavory dead.

they’ve pickled long in quiet brine
meaning chokes; forms bind
brackish style and sly shade of...

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Mulberry trees, the symbols 
of abundance and beauty,
bear sweet and very juicy 
white, pink, or purple berries!
The white mulberry leaves are 
the food sources of silkworms.
These trees are hailed,
since time immemorial 
as the trees of...

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Have-beens went into fury.
Like silkworms, after the shock
spinning the myths around them.

Then the gossip will turn towards
the words, locked in extra
sensory awakening.

The gametes move in a chasm,
needling the pastoral scorn.
From the barrel of a gun...

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