Long Swallows Poems
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Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
swallows, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
swallows, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
swallows, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
swallows, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Anticipation of RealitySo cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
swallows, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
swallows, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form:
Free verse
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
swallows, dedication, destiny, dream, fear, happiness, success, work,
Form:
Free verse
The God Complex
“The God Complex”
His face imprinted
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words
like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
towards the back of their minds
once-in-a-while
reminding them of stories
they are eventually, all souls
book-marked
tagged...
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Categories:
swallows, god, i am, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
swallows, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Wasted Child
The History...
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Categories:
swallows, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mehmet Akif Ersoy TranslationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
swallows, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Van GoghEndless sunflower field
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...
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Categories:
swallows, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Hay Un Dia Feliz By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
To come by a happy day
(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...
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Categories:
swallows, childhood, family, father, feelings, music, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form:
Quatrain
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
swallows, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Rendered Speechless-LiterallyPeople often say I talk a lot, but I hardly think that is true,
Like the whispers about the bluebird, of which he never knew.
Talking helps a lot with my job, which is in public relations,
As...
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Categories:
swallows, fantasy, imagery, people, places, summer, travel, words,
Form:
Couplet
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glistens wet
in the spoilt lies of...
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Categories:
swallows, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
SamaraSamara...
Brilliant sunshine, silvery cloud;
looked down and found me lost in a crowd.
Some nights, I flew and followed the breeze.
Some nights, my world turned into a freeze.
Sometimes, I was lost, going my way;
it didn't matter night...
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Categories:
swallows, allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
Form:
Masnavi
Harbinger of Time
Written: March 4th 2024
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Whilst waiting patience is a probity,
swifter straddling startled savvy scare
strong for people enduring anguish
trope for enthusiastic...
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Categories:
swallows, analogy, time,
Form:
Free verse
Conversations With a Daughter: Creeps
"Conversations with a Daughter: Creeps"
Time creeps
my beautiful, clever, daughter
Weirdos are us
incorporated
There's that beautiful laugh,
that beautiful smile
Who wants to
belong here
they keep you on
the outer edge
that’s cool,
take all the time...
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Categories:
swallows, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Dracula's CastleIn the eases softening breeze leaves rustle in the crisp
Autumn air, as the creeping shadows begin to claim the
Hallows of the darkening night, layer by layer the blackness
Swallows whole the last remaining essence of light,...
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Categories:
swallows, adventure, gothic, halloween, history, holiday, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Marcel Moreau's: a Paris By T WignesanTranslation of Marcel Moreau's " A Paris " by T. Wignesan
IN PARIS
Paris bores me no end without you
My heart weighted down with melancholia
The spleen given over to asthenia
Empties its own sense of loss on to...
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Categories:
swallows, cute love, nostalgia, november, paris, romantic love,
Form:
Quatrain
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife TroisInevitable death defines afterlife - trois
So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized
chapped sticky man
spinning the david bowie playlist
as a somber dee...
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Categories:
swallows, absence, allah, analogy, angel, appreciation, blessing, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...
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Categories:
swallows, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Two Worlds Split
"Two Worlds Split"
One world
fell into unlit hues
black swallows
black dogs their consort
murderous their crows
black wings of darkest blue
dark knight,
their oceans
locked in
another's,
lost eternally,
dark nighted
corralling
the purple heart bruised,
deadly nightshades pierce
the shadows hiding
under the...
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Categories:
swallows, dark, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
Come With YouCome with me, take my hand and don’t let me go
Let’s feel our way through the ocean’s sand
Drink in my seawater and keep swimming low
I’m glad our sorrows are but a small fraction of...
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Categories:
swallows, desire, emotions, encouraging, faith, hope, nature, passion,
Form:
Rhyme