Long Steed Poems
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Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
steed, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
steed, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
steed, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
No Happy EndingBright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...
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Categories:
steed, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter TwoBrave Shadow Mane
Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste
Now this was indeed...
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Categories:
steed, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...
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Categories:
steed, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of CharityAn Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
steed, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
A New MythologyThere is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
steed, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
Parts Two and Three Honoring Elizabeth Barrett Browning(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts
Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!
As sun retreats and...
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Categories:
steed, appreciation, art, creation, poetry, poets, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.
To cause no animosity among our friendly group
I myself am partial to some tasty asian...
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Categories:
steed, humorous, native american, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
steed, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Renee Vivien TranslationsRenee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.
It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...
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Categories:
steed, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
Whar Art Thou Dame of My DreamWhar art thou dame of my dream?
Eagerness readily overtakes me prior
to succumbing to nightly slumber.
Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed
adrift abed invariably occurs counting backwards
from one hundred –...
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Categories:
steed, absence, addiction, allusion, angel, appreciation, celebration, red,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a TimeThere stood a castle on the summit of a hill
Now fallen to decay, hidden among bushes wild
It perched like an eagle’s nest on the steep hill
It was owned by a Lord, gentle and mild
Blessed with...
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Categories:
steed, celebration, cute love, irony, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Polish Prince KindheartedPrince Kindhearted asked his father the King of Poland, that he would like to see the world.
Sadden, for he was his only child, he did let him go with his most trusted servant.
Not faraway from...
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Categories:
steed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Crazy Horse MonumentCrazy Horse Monument
Up there! On the Black Hills Mountain, 1
A work in progress sculptured in granite,
Of a stern faced warrior, strong and determined, 2
Unadorned in a war bonnet, with his hair flowing in the wind,
And...
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Categories:
steed, america, education, history, native american, tribute, usa,
Form:
Verse
The Death of a Young KingTHE DEATH OF A YOUNG KING . . .
Eight of the strongest and, bravest the of warriors; were collected in all
Each chosen for their strength; each of the same height, and, their gaul
Their task was...
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Categories:
steed, death, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
I Am Ill Eke Quipped To Dusk Hoover Dawn Ting Task of BadinageI am ill eke quipped to dusk hoover dawn ting task of badinage
Indentured gumption forsaken
courtesy each pulled wisdom-tooth
this hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters...
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Categories:
steed, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beauty, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Executioner - Both Audio and TextThis piece was inspired, many years ago, by the magnificent poem - "The Highwayman" -
‘Neath an ivory moon in a cobalt sky, on a clear and silky night,
On ebon steed, with pistol drawn, I...
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Categories:
steed, father son, son,
Form:
Narrative
Broken Dreams Don'T Die, They Just Bleed, Bruise, Heal and RequireBroken dreams don't die.
They bleed.
They cry out for somebody to believe, believe me everybody cries sometimes.
Even me
Have you ever wondered what happened to those dreams we ignore
Do they turn into...
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Categories:
steed, absence,
Form:
I do not know?
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11:6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession—
I am Awareness itself.”
One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”
We now enter still...
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Categories:
steed, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
How Did Wiccans Acquire a Bad RepHow Wiccans acquired a bad rep is not clear.
Misogynist bullies afraid of these women’s light,
A young teen with an ugly heart of jealous fear,
Might point a finger under cover of night.
But in Salem Massachusetts, hysteria...
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Categories:
steed, america,
Form:
Chant Royal
The Mask of FateThe Mask of Fate
(This poem deals with the Corona Virus.
It is very intense.)
My kid's school called.
The college.
They said that there had been...
a national concern; regarding the Sun.
No...
That was not...
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Categories:
steed, abortion, anxiety, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Narrative
Horses Are HeroesI've always admired
horses
and I guess I most surely
always will
No legend without em'
complete
The unsung heroes of
any heroic battle
Pony, colt, filly or mare
ride it bareback if you
dare
Ride them to a trot, ride...
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Categories:
steed, horse
Form:
Quatorzain
Flight of the Firefly
I walked a wooded path at night;
Down in the vale: a hint of light.
It shone as through an open door:
A faint, soft glow, and little more,
And sounds of bells, to my delight.
I crept up close...
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Categories:
steed, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Quintilla