Long Slipped my mind Poems

Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...

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Date:  April  2049

Next day: warm spring silky 
Afternoon Polly voyaged to the estate
For a visit accompanying was
her cousin Holly who
Dolly Molly and Damian would meet 
For the first time. Molly and Damian 
And...

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Deception in perception
can you see it, the deception in perception
for what may be real to some
will never be visible to others
so can sane and insanity be reliable labels
can crazy or normal be viable claims
I guess...

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CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4

Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgins;
nor can my mind, so consumed by malaise,
partake of the Muses' mete fruit;
for...

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To the torn page out of Modern day Merlin’s book of wizardry,

I regret to inform you that you are nothing more than a recipe for tomato soup. You have no enchanted qualities about you, but...

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41.
        Resist I Must

Pride is hubris run amok
To rot the soul within.
It rises from the depths of hell...
The deadliest of sins.

It is the snake that slithers so
To pervert...

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I dwell on virgin moments lightly spent
beyond the lips of verdant fairy glens
A grand invincibility was mine
and life, ah life, the sweetest purest wine.

I danced on dainty rings of dryad saddles,
I fought and died in...

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I always slipped your mind 
By Michelle Morris
17/11/2023

I would walk 10,000 miles
I would swim the ocean depths
I would climb the highest mountain
I would crawl and plead and beg

But, what would any of these things do?
Would...

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The Sermon

You must be mistaken has it slipped your mind
Allow me to explain it to you one more time
I’ll never leave God…again I say never
Even though your temptation is relentless and clever
Your invites will cease...

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I wear a white buttoned shirt
And my friends call me four eyes
But I don't care, just slowly walk away
And give 'em my gang sign

Don't bother with my appearance
Cause I'm the king of the chess team
Most...

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Mama you missed a part….
You never told me;
You groomed me mama.
You taught me to walk and talk like a lady:
And that I did.
But Mama you forgot, 
Mama you skipped a part.

Mama, through your eyes;
I saw...

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(reference...read the poem by Danny Nunn.."The Wind Called Dolores")

Last month here on Poetry Soup, an imposter invaded my space
Un invited she came with a vengeance, she posed as my daughter
For a very good reason, I...

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I knew he’d forget

All I wanted this year was a bike, I even wrote Santa three letters so he wouldn’t 
forget. I ran to my sister’s room and woke her up, “Come on, let’s go...

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Dear God,
    Why do you mock me so? 
my Mother is hooked up to some respirator,
dying.
My father is hooked up on heroine,
crying.

And you find it amusing to let me watch
this charade of, what is...

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Belle, so starry; a growing mystery but you always meant love to me
a butterfly, please remain but I'll let you fly away when you're ready
It's suddenly slipped my mind what I'm supposed to say
this life...

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Hello, how are you?
There's something urgent I need to say
Oh me? Well, I'm fine too
But I'm not the reason I've called you today.

It's our feral brothers,
They're crying, and are all around us dying
Even Mother Earth...

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Your shoulder brushes against my own
Your warm scent, harder to ignore the more I attempted 
Years of being subjected to this cruel sensation
How long shall I last without being tempted?

Tender eyes, flushed cheeks, your firm,...

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He turned into a rooster, right there before my eyes
His arms became plump chicken wings, imagine my surprise
His chest puffed out and swelled with pride his back a feathered thatch
His scruffy brogues were cast aside,...

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forgive me master
while you at your desk
took private your thoughts

i dared trespass...
approaching silent
i slipped your mind
in the rays of sun
i came from behind

the master
and I at his desk
...forgive me...

Ancient stokes do see
hands on the brush
playing...

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 Tetractys 

Oh Dell, what did you do with my poem?
the one I wrote
just last night.
Where is
it?
 
Duh!
Of course
I saved it;
I always save.
I have looked everywhere; I can't think straight.

Rats! I was so sleepy, it...

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Sometimes we make a promise we forget.
You said it but it simply slipped your mind
and then you tell someone of your regret
but they just aren't the forgiving kind.

So, what does this teach us about our...

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just because you had blue eyes
did it make you crazy
just because you had dark hair
did it make you lazy

because I was friends with your family
and I had gained their respect
did I have that thought in...

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The Art Of Wondering 

Another wonderful discovery.  I had it all the time.  But I didn’t know it was mine. Maybe 
it slipped my mind.  You can do it for a moment...

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Did I ever tell you
how beautiful you are?
Casually, one morning
(with the bathroom door ajar)
as I said we need more toothpaste,
or I’m off at quarter-to,
did I hold you, as I wanted?
Did I mention it to you?

Did...

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It's on the tip of my tongue.It'll
Come back to me in a minute.
Now what was it I came upstairs for?
I'd better go back down to jog my memory.
There were no phone calls.Well, maybe the phone...

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