Long Squalid Poems
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Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
squalid, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
squalid, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
squalid, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
abysSal dreadfulnesSI don’t feel good at this
I’m feeling so hopeless
I need some happiness
I’m feeling dread instead
I’ve been consuming sorrowful bread
I’ve been feeling rather dead
I want to repent of being sinful
I want to repent of being resentful
I...
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Categories:
squalid, angst, anxiety, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Queen of the Sea and King of the DesertI am at the edge of the sea...of the sea...
I am falling apart as we opened the door
Follow me...follow me...come follow me…
Even in our departure, we are on the shore
I am the queen of the...
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Categories:
squalid, conflict, emotions, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
Queen of the Sea and King of the DesertI am at the edge of the sea...of the sea...
I am falling apart as we opened the door
Follow me...follow me...come follow me…
Even in our departure, we are on the shore
I am the queen of the...
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Categories:
squalid, ocean, sea,
Form:
Lyric
Misery's HoldI will not waste away in the streets of such unbearable nightmares where I silently weep
I will survive the rainstorm of lament and listen to the mesmerizing murmurs of the deep
I am alive in the...
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Categories:
squalid, angst, deep, depression, desire, encouraging, muse, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
BelovedMy name, David, means beloved in Hebrew - the daytime is shining amongst my windowpane as I write this poem, not in vain, but with pain that soon goes down the drain...my mind is on...
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Categories:
squalid, angst, dedication, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Put Out DoubtI am bound in the chambers of doubt
I want to run His ever-redeeming Route
Believing in You is getting more difficult, so difficult
Faith in You has been disappearing…and it’s my fault
I must trek these mountainous tribulations...
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Categories:
squalid, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, pain, passion, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Fearful Distress More Or LessI’m facing way too much stress
I need some spiritual happiness
I’m embracing my true endeavors and my passions that make me feel blissful
I don’t need this greedy society bringing me down and making me feel stressful
I’m...
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Categories:
squalid, angst, depression, hope, how i feel, joy,
Form:
Lyric
The Otherwisethey disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
......
retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
fresh slants on shadowy delight
the foreboding, ominous,...
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Categories:
squalid, community, psychological, sleep, voice,
Form:
Verse
Una Nave Parte-A Ship DepartsUna donna rattristita e velata dal pianto,
guarda verso un mare
piu' squallido di questo invernile mattino:
rimpiangendo i pensieri dolci
cullati dalla nostalgia di ieri
che non sara' facile dimenticare!
Una nave parte,
si ode il suo rombo...
si infrancono
onde tempestose
sulla...
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Categories:
squalid, bird, boat, longing, pain, sad love, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Merry MiserieConjuring and challenging my silly, puny solitude…
Enduring and foliage of squalid grief…left me in the nude of the wintertime
Sometimes, I wander…I wonder…I ponder so good
I am naughty this wintertime, up to no good…misunderstood all...
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Categories:
squalid, angst, hope, pain, passion, peace, suicide, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Beauty At Its BestFaith is like a flower that grows fervently
Love is like a rose that glimmers majestically
It's like a tender dove that flies so beautifully,
For it gives me some peace that runs through my veins
The...
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Categories:
squalid, beautiful, blessing, deep, desire, hope, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Hunger PangsThe sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature
Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name
Kanja meaning water born and his parents had hoped he would...
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Categories:
squalid, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Marching RocksMarching Rocks
Like Toffee people chasing the westerly breeze
And, presumably ordered, abruptly, to freeze-
Tableaux is evocative of an ancient command
That left a sprawl of stones scattered on the land.
On swift flight in...
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Categories:
squalid,
Form:
Couplet
Blue BeautyThe sea is so bright and it illuminates the nostalgic night
It sways and sways to the rhythm of my young heart
The clouds are formulating right before my eyes with might
Raindrops collapse upon the ground from...
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Categories:
squalid, beauty, blue, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
She Was Very PrettyShe Was Very Pretty
by Michael R. Burch
She was very pretty, in the usual way
for perhaps a day;
and when the boys came out to play,
she winked and smiled, then ran away
till one unexpectedly caught her.
At sixteen,...
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Categories:
squalid, boy, daughter, girl, hair, heart, light, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Pig BladdersWe played on all weather turf which was mud and a few sods of grass
Dribbled like Pele and Eusebio in old boot for that one killer pass
From straight after school until there was not one...
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Categories:
squalid, political,
Form:
Free verse
TalentTalent
by Michael R. Burch
for Kevin Nicholas Roberts
I liked the first passage
of her poem: where it led
(though not nearly enough
to retract what I said.)
Now the book propped up here
flutters, scarcely half read.
It will keep.
Before sleep,
let me...
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Categories:
squalid, creation, friend, friendship, poems, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Cardiac ArrestDarkness hangs heavily over my eyes
And you listen to the neurosis in my head
Like most misery it started with apparent happiness
Now I seem too volatile & strong willed.
It's frustrating how desire can transform into disaster
No...
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Categories:
squalid, break up, heart, heartbroken,
Form:
I do not know?
Who Are We At Our CoreAn evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,
who might chortle at vivid veil flimsy vacuum,
skirt recklessly...
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Categories:
squalid, art, beautiful, beauty, care, character, courage, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Discard VanityPlease unchain me from this false utopia
This hopeful thinking is a hopeless flaw
Please forgive the wrongs I inflicted upon you
This tainted sorrow is infecting all of me too
Grieving for the death of yesterday
Take a breath...
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Categories:
squalid, encouraging, happiness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Collisions Between Yours Truly and the MissusCollisions between yours truly and the missus
Space at a premium
in our apartment
lettered and numbered b44
at Highland Manor,
cuz the spouse
heavily trends toward disorderliness.
She readily admits her predilection
to disavow being a neatnik,
yet owns the capacity
getting down to...
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Categories:
squalid, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The Philosopher's Lament - 2[Continued from Part 1]
“And the efforts of the Senate to extinguish all this fury
Were frustrated by convictions that their god would promptly hurry
To reward and praise the burning of the books in Caesar’s hall:
Pliny, Tacitus...
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Categories:
squalid, conflict, history,
Form:
Rhyme