Long Sleepers Poems
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Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
sleepers, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep
"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"
The silent heart is found
embedded in the
Cathedral of
The Forest Deep
The lost jewel
shines in the dark
see the reflection of emerald eyes
endless hazel woods scried
On Christmas Eve
when...
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Categories:
sleepers, christmas, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
sleepers, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Waters and Skies
I.
You can always tell by the eyes
When they’re starting to go
You’ll fall for a few of their lies
Before you begin to know
And you will just defy it
(But they know you will never go)
They’ll glide through...
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Categories:
sleepers, addiction, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
sleepers, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
In the Red Desert of the Rising Sun
In the red desert of the rising sun
In the surrealness of its silence
The sky turned grey and ominous
Amidst the blackened rain
As the suns fell into...
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Categories:
sleepers,
Form:
ABC
Parasite
I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum
With a chlorinated pool
Where one day...
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Categories:
sleepers, political,
Form:
I do not know?
Jumping For Joy
For years I was a trained gymnast, and I'd competed in the Olympics,
Before my leg was injured in a car accident, among fate's cruel tricks.
I had photographs and memories, of my glory days on the...
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Categories:
sleepers, career, fantasy, happiness, hope, imagery, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet
October Tale
OCTOBER TALE
Go south and follow the sun’s traverse
As it heads t’ward Capricorn
When days and nights are in equipoise
And slight chills happily born
Go beyond the wide stream where Siegfried roved
Past the dark forest’s sylvan span
You then...
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Categories:
sleepers, humorous, life,
Form:
Narrative
Restoring Earth Justice
Permacultural project proposals,
for those who live where forests once prevailed,
could become sacred reforesting projects
employing secular eco-political democratic development
principles and procedures and Honorable Harvest policies
inclusive of Sacred MotherTrees.
Who: Maybe your local interfaith cooperative network.
When: Ongoing,
permaculturally developed...
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Categories:
sleepers, caregiving, culture, faith, health, integrity, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Medieval Poetry Translations VII by Michael R Burch
These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and/or Middle English.
The Maiden’s Song aka The Bridal Morn
anonymous Medieval lyric
translation by Michael R. Burch
The maidens came to my mother’s bower.
I had all I...
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Categories:
sleepers, girl, mother, mother daughter, rose, song, wedding,
Form:
Free verse
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday, we know clearly,
The Christ did say: "Remember me..."
The ritual tale of the Master,
Washed feet availed, fond kiss rendered.
How humble then, that sacred act
Of loving grand in precious pact.
The supper room where The Christ...
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Categories:
sleepers, courage,
Form:
Couplet
First Day of Lockdown
First day of lockdown
I was enjoying everything
Had a healthy breakfast after that
Watched tv ,played on line chess
Had a good nap to complete relax.
About 11 o clock i left the bed
Put on...
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Categories:
sleepers, anxiety, family, friend, funny, natural disasters, social,
Form:
Free verse
Where
WHERE ?
POET- ANJALI DENANDI,MOM
we awake, never.
we are always sleeping.
ignorance means asleep.
wisdom means arising.
where are these ?
tell, please !
we are ever-sleepers..........
haa,haa,haa,we are very careful sleep-keepers.
can we change ?
are these not strange?
why are we not careful about...
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Categories:
sleepers, creation, universe,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ropes
The wind came down from the canyon with a quite heat
It was to his back as he faced the crashing waves
He watched the pelicans skimming the rolling surf
The sun warmed sand felt comforting beneath his...
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Categories:
sleepers, death, family, life, house, family, family, house,
Form:
Free verse
The Light of Loving the Sisterhood
Soft as the lofting breeze, is the light of loving
Gentle is the moving sway, in the endless stillness
Of the human heart, for compassion in rheum’s
Perfection of the female soul of sisterhood!
White doves fluttering at the...
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Categories:
sleepers, art, beauty, friendship, happiness, inspirational, muse, sister,
Form:
Free verse
We, You, I : a Rap Song
"I ain't gonna be nothing,
Cos it seem like f'ever I've been longing."
Tears in the eyes, phlegm in the nose,
Skin so sore, malady of the toes.
Helter-skelter, yet, nothing to show for,
Studied chemistry and...
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Categories:
sleepers, depression, evil,
Form:
Lyric
That's Crazy
Before the phrase, 'road rage', was born, ...
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Categories:
sleepers, humorous, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Ripples and Tracks, Dreams and Memories
Lakes and beaches are wiped clean like a whiteboard,
each day by waves, tide, wind.
Then marks of ripples and tracks provide transient tell-tales
of what has gone on since, of what is yet to come.
What caused...
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Categories:
sleepers, beach, memory, sea, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Answer To Complaint Part 5
In Life’s old garden nations lived who all its fruits enjoyed,
While others longed in vain, while some the winter blasts destroyed;
Its trees are legion; some decay, While others flush with bloom,
And thousands still their birth...
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Categories:
sleepers, allah, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
For Sleepers Only
A night of deep and dreaming sleep on a warm and firm mattress with appropriate coverings was not necessarily an item on our wish list, because we drew accustomed to the more simpler forms of...
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Categories:
sleepers, america, appreciation, blessing, change, growing up, home,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Anomaly
My thoughts wander as I wonder what I'm running for.
It's like I'm hunted cos I'm wanted for the chalk under juggernauts.
Now I ponder what I'm running from.
I took shelter against an atomic bomb....
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Categories:
sleepers, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Rulership
God has set before you Jesus the son of man
given him his power the only one who can
Jesus walked on water and legions overthrew
healed every illness did as was sent to do
Few have little...
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Categories:
sleepers, dedication, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Eulogy For a Fly - Part Two
(continued from PART ONE)
Why I’ve seen him countless times, regurgitate old dog faeces onto fresh bread
And listened to his quiet voice exhorting me to do the same.
This fly was a...
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Categories:
sleepers, funnyold, old,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Land of the Gun
Living in dark days
of the last generation of Noah
Evil beast animals now rule the Earth
Peaceful human beings
are perpetual moving ark targets
In constant danger from the archers’ grip,
the meek souls pray always to God
that the...
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Categories:
sleepers, death, truth, violence, visionary,
Form:
Elegy