Long Sips Poems
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Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
sips, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
sips, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
sips, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
sips, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
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:
sips, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Malkavian the SecondThe constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
sips, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Ghost of Tsali ComesGhost Of Tsali Comes
Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs
Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes
Corn roots cling to bone
As he tends the empty weirs
This spot...
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Categories:
sips, animal, autumn, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The RantGone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased,
by hurried tempers bent on winning wars,
neglectful...
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Categories:
sips, people, philosophy, political, society, truth, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
New Year's ResolutionsJim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O'Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the homes...
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Categories:
sips, new year,
Form:
Prose
A Man of No WordsVirgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a few...
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Categories:
sips, veterans day, war,
Form:
Prose
La FermeIt was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories:
sips, 4th grade, easter, family, friendship, grandmother, murder,
Form:
Free verse
Vultures Circling - Part OneI'd just checked out of a hotel in the town of Santa Fe
Went to the store to collect supplies and went on my way
I was heading for the gold rush in the state of...
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Categories:
sips, america, death, girl, horse, sun,
Form:
Narrative
Perpetual Quandries of DischordPerpetual Quandries of Dischord
Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder
Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd
Firmaments of promises...
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Categories:
sips, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Day In DreamlandAnother day in dreamland
Wake up. Watch the sun ease in the light
like the day before, goin back, and on some more.
Cuddle with the reasons why while I collect
my unconscious back from the sky.
Okay, get...
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Categories:
sips, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Letters For People Part 6Dear people,
A true Voice speaks pure truth in two tones.
Real Ears can only hear one.
Get one half of two true whole truths,
...
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Categories:
sips, america, angel, anxiety, confidence, fire, heart, humor,
Form:
Epic
What Have I Seen?1
Sunrise, late winter
skunk smell
turkey flock
playful otter, too.
The white heron
a great blue,
white phase,
in the abandoned beaver pond.
Purple clematis
its long-awned achenes
in globose heads
spidery, fiery, extravagant fruit!
To identify or classify
birds by
the complexity or beauty
of their songs.
And so
what is...
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Categories:
sips, allah, girl, nature, peace, prayer, war, writing,
Form:
Verse
ShadesHe sits there with defiance in his eyes and listens to the choir as it sings the final chorus before it dies, the room was packed with critics and a mountain of problems was climbing...
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Categories:
sips, america, beautiful, break up, business, career, dance,
Form:
Narrative
ConversionCONVERSION
1
Everyday is a test, no rest, a contest, put up my best, I confess
Hardwired and tired, flawed with mud and mire, no liar but on fire
I will connect, will not fret but you can bet...
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Categories:
sips, baptism, bible, conflict, endurance, passion, religion, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Stained Glass ScarletStained Glass Scarlet, Scarlet Fasinera . . . a fictional character
a vigilante haunting the streets of the Bronx
...
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Categories:
sips, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Vow of ParadiseI made you a vow of paradise
Though I knew I could not find the time
To show you how much I cared and treasured
The sincerity of your love and devotion;
I wanted to take you to my...
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Categories:
sips, allegory, cheer up, christian, feelings, garden, hope,
Form:
Free verse
ProseShane walked to the back of the bar and found the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the bar and the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two...
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Categories:
sips, brother, dark, money, woman,
Form:
Prose
chinese soup( a college life vignette)
It’s Thursday morning, usually no one’s favorite, but this one seems sugary new, as if beamed in from a different, better universe. The clouds look fluffy and freshly washed.
Even the freshmen,...
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Categories:
sips, father, father daughter, friendship, happy, humor, school,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
sips, imagination, love, true love, valentines day,
Form:
Rhyme
ShaneShane walks in, hurries to the back of the bar. He finds the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two lights...
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Categories:
sips, anxiety, best friend, betrayal, brother,
Form:
Prose
Thought Train Location As of October 27th, 2013Thought Train Location As of October 27th,2013
Take 1
…don’t even try to believe or perceive or conceive any of this*
when the clouds come to veil the stars and the night puts you in an unsure but...
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Categories:
sips, how i feel, perspective,
Form:
Prose