Long Survives Poems
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Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
survives, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
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survives, courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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survives, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
survives, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
survives, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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survives, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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survives, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In My Beautiful BalloonWith summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...
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Categories:
survives, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
survives, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Urdu TranslationsLast Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
survives, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
survives, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
EzraThis is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
survives, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Heart Made Hatchet -2Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless...
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Categories:
survives, america,
Form:
Epic
World BleedersWorld Bleeders (#777 words)
If you claim to be sane
in this crazy whirled we live
I pity the world in your domain
in that you forget to forgive
I think your normal is abnormal
You must be one of the...
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Categories:
survives, change, dark, death, earth, evil, political, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Wellington GateHis walk into town would prove fateful that day,
As his mind wandered idly while finding his way.
His footsteps were brisk like fall chill in the air,
Past Wellington Gate, south of Denby town square.
He paused for...
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Categories:
survives, death, emotions, funeral, goodbye, grave, grief, hurt,
Form:
Narrative
Canned 'stink' - State of the Art For Crowd ControlCanned ‘STINK’ - State of the Art for Crowd Control
...
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Categories:
survives, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 FinisA Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...
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Categories:
survives, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Xlvii - Tongue-Twisting EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters
If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like...
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Categories:
survives, england, humor, satire, sensual,
Form:
Epigram
The Whole TruthPontius Pilate, Governor of Judea, asked Jesus, "What is TRUTH?" ...
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Categories:
survives, truth,
Form:
Verse
The Hero - Monomyth(Dedication: For Ann)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The tale now mints: a hero hears
A call that tints, a choice appears.
It cannot be, this journey quest
To cross the seas, to face the test.
Denial comes brisk, no hero here
To dare grave risk,...
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Categories:
survives, devotion, myth,
Form:
Couplet
The Birth of Death IiIII
Brahma thence forged a form— a female-head,
Born of impending need, a weird form—
Black as born of darkness, tongue and mouth red,
Eyes burning yellow, like a raging storm.
Uncertain she stood facing what was South,...
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Categories:
survives, death,
Form:
Epic
To Question ExistenceIsn't our quality of life greatly subject to how we view our world and what happens in it?
I heard someone say recently, (and I agree), that nature is one of the most beautiful things we...
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Categories:
survives, appreciation, beauty, earth, humanity, nature, ocean, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins SwishA WISH FOR ALL FISH
Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark,
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has become absurd,
The facts real and stark!
My Fairy God mother...
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Categories:
survives, fish,
Form:
Free verse
Knowing God
When I was five, I asked the Lord…
To please protect my mom, my world
He whispered to my soul, “I will”
And went on to protect her from pain
From worry, doubt, fear and depression
From all the things...
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Categories:
survives, faith, god, hope, inspiration, inspirational, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Greatest GenerationTHE GREATEST GENERATION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation
They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression
It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Diversions
Like Bank Night, Singalongs and Picnic Excursions
Band Concerts...
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Categories:
survives, america, courage, freedom, patriotic, together, war,
Form:
Free verse