Long Sylvan Poems
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Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
sylvan, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
sylvan, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
sylvan, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
TransplanT
Aided by the wind,
entities take flight like prismatic colors-
talismanning chanced direction
"of watering misfit eye",
looking for a new place
to touchdown...
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Categories:
sylvan, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
October TaleOCTOBER TALE
Go south and follow the sun’s traverse
As it heads t’ward Capricorn
When days and nights are in equipoise
And slight chills happily born
Go beyond the wide stream where Siegfried roved
Past the dark forest’s sylvan span
You then...
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Categories:
sylvan, humorous, life,
Form:
Narrative
Echo and Narcissus Part 1King Cephissus lured Liriope
. To bathe and frolic in his stream
Entrapping her she lost all hope
His favours now she must redeem
Her ardent struggles came...
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Categories:
sylvan, myth, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
If You Can'T Comment On My Poetries, Can'T You At Least Deign To Comet On ThemScribal notions these, and oh so sorrowful,
But, despite their seeming poignance they are not additionally puissant, no.
I have seem them, wrapped in warmed and moist leaves:
No, not the leaves as pages of books, as...
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Categories:
sylvan, adventure, africa, allusion, analogy, appreciation, assonance, bible,
Form:
I do not know?
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5aTruth... Is It true?
From somewhere lost atween stolen time
Some things left forgotten was remembered
Darkness moaning for lights to shine
Indefinite yet enticing to have feelings desired
Once was love I see… ever once was love in reality
I...
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Categories:
sylvan, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 6aAn After Another
Of a misguided soul in a misguided time
Misfortune is to arise, simply and only simply
Yet, I’m in doubt whether learnt have I to entwine
To resolve any misguidance as willingly as surely
Each passing day,...
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Categories:
sylvan, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Nature and Me On the RiversideWhen I appear there Nature seems to
Dance and dance and dance,
When I disappear she is prone to
Weep and weep and weep.
Withdraws all clouds from sky to set a
Splendid scenery,
So...
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Categories:
sylvan, beautiful, beauty, dance, earth, environment, imagery, uplifting,
Form:
Light Verse
The Askance Chapter 5 Part 2aThe Defiance
I feel this night to be stolen from me
This endless night when I’m sitting lone
Day by day, the ever quest is ever harder to see
Of a life to belong never mine… to own
From several...
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Categories:
sylvan, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5b“Dwellers of the Ancients, is all be seeking The Fallen atop?
Well… be advised and turn back for to entertain he will not
It's been far too long since mortals have come before our sight
And above all,...
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Categories:
sylvan, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Riding AloneCopyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Poetic Lyrics By Thomas Lam Hsi
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD...THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY...WHO ALONE CAN
SAVE FROM Satan...who plays 'all' roles...the devil...the 'Lord Jesus'...
the 'Father'...the 'Holy Spirit'...all 'Other Gods'...and 'alien gods'...HE...THE
LORD...
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Categories:
sylvan, adventure, angel, betrayal, boyfriend, break up,
Form:
Ballad
WitchcraftBlack –
darkness pitches, naked witches, almond moon of hallowed season
crossing stitches, dogs and bitches dance entranced for wicked reason
powdered sulphur matting hair, licking dirt and twitching praises
sanctify the night in pain, evil stirs and sickness...
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Categories:
sylvan, dark, light,
Form:
Rhyme
A Willow Once PonderedA Willow Once Pondered
As I lay beneath this willow tree, cresting the banks of a nearby creek.
Its budding branches swaying to natures whispered symphony, with a floral scent on a gentle breeze.
Lilac, and jasmine...
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Categories:
sylvan, butterfly, nature, poetry, tree, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Far Beyond Hereafter Part TwoBrains in this group were graded according to a binary system.
1 winner 0 as in loser.
A hypnotic mantra often -
“Winner, loser, hopeless chooser.”
There were even signs such as a straight finger...
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Categories:
sylvan, art, city, color, dream, fantasy, imagination, symbolism,
Form:
Prose
Refurbished Fairy Tales: The Real Skinny on Snow White!!!CAVEAT LECTOR!!! This one's a bit naughty, dear readers...
You've heard of Snow White
And the story reported
Of the seven wee dudes
With whom she consorted.
Well, here's the actual skinny
On what really occurred,
Just another example
Of how stories get...
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Categories:
sylvan, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Far Beyond Hereafter Part ThreeThe other members of the group would tease Lambent Shroud.
They’d speak in groans n puns too.
You’d sense lambent was a little uncomfortable with it all.
The other members of this amazing group were all tall, had...
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Categories:
sylvan, art, betrayal, city, color, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Wild Mountain HoneyOld Mountain tales of love spin 'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls, drawing me nigh.
Ah! Her laughter, a honeybee’s dance in summer’s rush,
Ignites my days with passion, 'tis morn I cry.
Calm, twilight lingers, her...
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Categories:
sylvan, adventure, devotion, inspirational love, longing, love, mountains,
Form:
Lyric
Sylvan Summer Part IThe escape commenced.
The endless drive from middleclass suburbia
ala Levittown; across hill and dale,
packed in a 1947 black beauty
of a Lincoln Continental; to the land of Peyton Place
and Steven King; Maine.
Lemon up and tangerine down,...
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Categories:
sylvan, nostalgia
Form:
Narrative
FaintheartAmid Arcady's sylvan groves(where once I gazed
Upon such luminous and alabaster grace
By her immortal beauty raptly drawn and dazed
As she turned and gently upraised her elfin face.
Like Aphrodite from...
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Categories:
sylvan, lost love, love hurts, sad love, solitude,
Form:
Pastoral
Sylvan Summer Part IiiThe cracker crisp Maine air
rang with the rooster’s revel.
Moving day, time to clean the hens shed.
Monstrous three story hatchery,
thousands of burnt umber; beauties a laying.
Lace edged bobby socks, red Keds, barrettes, T-shirt and short;
and...
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Categories:
sylvan, childhood, work, girl, girl,
Form:
Narrative
In the Company of My MuseOn a walk companioned by my Muse along the sylvan meadows
We wandered away to delightful realms in unclouded ambience
Don’t know how long I rambled warming my fancies in sunset fires
Must be for long, all lights...
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Categories:
sylvan, beauty, dark, imagination,
Form:
Blank verse
EVA CASSIDYMiss Sunshine was her sobriquet, and she the golden child
All through her happy infant days she wore that winning smile
She loved the colors nature gave, but sensitive and shy
She suffered from the...
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Categories:
sylvan, class,
Form:
Ode
A Passing ShadowBehind our house, below the deck
with its pleasing benches and sylvan view,
the back yard we have descends steeply
to a little stream called Chimacum Creek.
It is September, so the Creek’s waters
are shallow, so shallow that
little music...
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Categories:
sylvan, pets,
Form:
Free verse