Long Striken Poems

Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Dusk-gliding...

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Envisions of a new world order
Have infected
My ideologies
Concerning political parties.

Apathetic to the suicide bomber
Clutching his holy scripture
As Jesus is turned
Into an aborted fetus.

Starving for liberation,
Feed us.

The refugee diet
Is to die for, try it.
Stomachs bellow
As anxious...

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I had thought that by now
I'd be a silk laced image in her beautiful, brown eyes,
by now I'd thought I was her's to hold and to keep,
to snuggle with in lonesome nights,
when there was nothing...

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Whatever bind that bounds us has been broken
For all the time I knew I never thought I'd be forsaken.
Yet after all and everything you are forgiven
Even though all the love we had has been taken.
Oh...

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Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy 
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. 
Then he'll depart carrying the long hunting horn.
The small vessel will...

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He was striken with sudden illness
Had been taken to the hospital
For immediate diagnose
And extract reason for the cause;

As he jumped down from the car ..

To embrace him she ran 
May be he wanted to convey...

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Hearkening to community's notion, 
confines himself to violent commotion; 
Mumbling as though striken by demotion, 
stumbles to fathom out his emotion;
Hence, rumbles to drink an energy potion, 
which could empower him to submerge in devotion....

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Pain-striken I find myself, bulky is the knott that sits in my throat
A question comes to mind, a question that goes out to the unknown
Am I to see the light of tomorrow by my beloved...

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A gracious silver silhouette
For a mirage, a solemn bet
I shall pull on strings with invisible fingers
For a feeling that forever in the land lingers

A declaration of utmost infatuation
Romance, the name of the situation
Sitting on my...

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The pyramids are the triangular prims of the Egyptian desert,
monumental in height, and unsurpassable in endurance...
works of the hands of the whip-lashed Hebrew slaves;
no grief-striken faces were ever carved into them,
but those voices still recede...

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The titanium in me explodes and burns
so much that even oceanic amounts
of the waters cannot stand its rage.
I adore you and reverence your body so madly
that the awareness of my breathe
stands a great chance of...

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What would the world be like
If those on top of living  
learn to look down and see the life of others ,
who's struggles and throes to survive for existing,
And learn to stand in one...

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The murky rolling waves subject
to the whims of the February's wind, 
far above the secluded lighthouse;
the roaming aircrafts vanish through thick clouds,
leaving behind a trail of hazardous vapors...
but the geese and seagulls can't continue their...

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heart snapped off hearing the news of my friend's unforeseen scarring mishap


Disclaimer: This unpredicted incident happened in the year 2009 when I was in 9th grade.My friend Vivek met with frightening tragedy while he was...

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I will not write this gorgeous 
Poem tonight for she sleeps 
Gently in my mind dreaming of
Beauty and Forever fragrant
Fields dreams of quiet and 
Unique Picturesque. I,  having a
Kind of mind knowing my time
To...

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A race against time ..
As her life is faced with challenges..
A tragic loss of a loved one ..
Grief strikes her like a hot iron..
The pain intensifies as it shoots through her heart..
Paralyzed in mourning..
Feeling trapped...

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as I sit bye the fire 
I am intrigued bye death's inspire
Skeleton's move in organinized fashion
Filling the room with quarrled passion
Will join us now that u are the newborn
Do u reconize your own reflection 
Do...

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HELP! HELP!
 She is sinking,
 Sinking into the abyss of despair.
 Her brain is striken And her mind is stifled.
 She has been enervated.
 Her integrity is being manipulated,
 Irrationality acts as spring board to...

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I was once a poet weaving the lines of joy like a love-striken damsel,
Hoping the day would never come when the cock would crow three times,
I was once a boy dreaming dreams of a blissful...

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There are so many to hold my hand 
and share my pain.
There are so many to make my 
present and forget me my past.
Why do I always fail to mingle?
Why do I always fail to...

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Truth lies in these eyes of mine.
You won't look into,
Cannot immerse yourself in...
What's real.
I'm not trying,
Fear of failure or something wicked,
Do only morose things come out of feeling?
A mouth unspeaking,
Potential upbringing,
Sway me in your direction.
It...

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You swept the world out of its feet
Made it tumblin, chillin, crumblin
All of its parts seem to echo with crying 
For you to stop, they all kept pleading

But with your sudden grand entrance 
For an...

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Trying to walk down a blood striken street,
not easy with bare feet,
I looked at the floor in a daze,
dazed and confused,
and totally bemused,
frost bite in my frozen bue and greyish toes,
I started to glare at...

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The rain like an army of crazed crickets in an over sized paper bag,

Or the drum roll of anxious fingers on my writing pad

Wind blows with the force of one thousand story book wolves,

Navigates the...

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Shall we go like innocents with heavy
breathing in the pool of blood to find
the innerconnectivity of a boldly beautiful
death ? In the open pit of an ancient gold mine ?

There was a loss of hidden...

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