Long Splendor Poems
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Sappho TranslationsSappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
splendor, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
splendor, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
splendor, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Chinese Translations IiChinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
splendor, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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splendor, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a threadbare, fading strand,
A quest for wisdom, in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
splendor, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Paul and Sarah - Part TwoConditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
splendor, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
splendor, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Jesus gave up his life that we might live????John 10:14-15 NIV??
[14] “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life...
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Categories:
splendor, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Sorry I Shied AwayIs it just me or I'm starting to slow down along with the unwinding of time?
Time is running out and oh how I feel sublime
I'm in need of understanding God's Word and Law
I...
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Categories:
splendor, deep, depression, desire, , cute,
Form:
Lyric
Artifacts of DestinyEach ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life
both cooperative and competing
so far.
So
every shrinking...
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Categories:
splendor, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
splendor, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
splendor, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Seeking the Boundaries of Love's Depths and Her HandPoem One: Inspired by my reading of -Lady Labyrinth's---magnificent
poem , "Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"
(1.) Poem One
Seeking The Boundaries Of Love's Depths And Her Hand
The air, its surging breath sings
into the...
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Categories:
splendor, appreciation, art, beauty, dedication, love, passion, poetry,
Form:
Romanticism
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
splendor, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Make It Up To MeInsecurities is gone in a heart beat now
Emotional injuries fade away somehow
I can feel the tension as it sheds away
I can deal with the motion of your sway
I feel you here with me, no...
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Categories:
splendor, abuse, angst, depression, emotions, endurance, hurt, love
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
splendor, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
splendor, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
splendor, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Moon N MeAs darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in my room and my window opened. Everything in upheaval, a...
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Categories:
splendor, anxiety, conflict, depression, fantasy, peace, sleep, sympathy,
Form:
Prose
Very Fine ImageryI was touring the lovely countryside, once on a golden Saturday,
Lost within the raptures, of languid summertime's scenic display.
And I came into the vicinity, of a beautiful historic old home,
So being curious and interested, inside...
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Categories:
splendor, adventure, fantasy, house, imagery, mirror, places, world,
Form:
Couplet
Waves of Emotions - Swim In Serenity's Safe and Sound SignificanceI'm smart when I'm in my shell of solitude
Waiting till you're gone
So I can wear this attitude of gratitude
Bug off, bad attitude
I don't mean to act so rude
I feel ashamed and nude
The day is finally...
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Categories:
splendor, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
splendor, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Church Bulletin For TodayVenite
Come let us sing to the Lord;*
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving*
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
For the Lord is...
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Categories:
splendor, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Two Hearts One LoveReflections
Though our love nurtured well in passion's fire
Aroused now as a lamplight on life's road
This ember's torch burns still from our desire
With gleams of memories from love bestowed
as we journeyed in wondrous enchantment
I've kissed you...
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Categories:
splendor, life, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets