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Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
throbbing, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Fadwa Tuqan TranslationsFadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
throbbing, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa TuqanEnglish translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
throbbing, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools of living waters gurgling, and winds gently rustling trees
Wishing for...
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Categories:
throbbing, beauty, bible, confusion, courage, love, lust, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
throbbing, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Allah and Buddha Were TalkingYou know what I think sometimes?
said Allah to Buddha,
Of course you do
and yet you don't.
I think I gave this gift of language
because you have a uniquely humanurtured gift
of comprehending
and transposing
and translating languages thru-out each and...
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Categories:
throbbing, body, health, mentor, political, psychological, religion, rights,
Form:
Narrative
The Maid of OrleansReflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining braids that...
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Categories:
throbbing, christian, conflict, courage, england, history,
Form:
Couplet
MonofilamaniaIt is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
throbbing, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
throbbing, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
You MatterThe last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel it’s...
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Categories:
throbbing, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
throbbing, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
Me and Me FirstThat soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
throbbing, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
The Window Seat - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationWhile flying through a cloudy sky, a blank and thoughtless glance
Exposed to me this big old house, so brief, and quite by chance.
I’d seen enough to know that it was large, and very grand,
A place...
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Categories:
throbbing, humor,
Form:
Narrative
My Little Creepy DudeAt the final stroking of saint Halloween eve, it seems not so long ago,
That my trusty SUV, transport vehicle unceremoniously broke down,
Right outside the local pet cemetery, what a marvelous place to
Spend the spookiest night...
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Categories:
throbbing, brother, fantasy, funny, halloween, history, imagery, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July MorningPOTW 28 January 2018
Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her planet. She’s strictly forbidden to make any human contact. She...
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Categories:
throbbing, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Embellishing - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
throbbing, car, humor,
Form:
Narrative
To Our Farthest Memory: Dhruvasmriti“ We are
What we eat“
...
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Categories:
throbbing, faith, mythology,
Form:
Concrete
Skinwalker
"Skinwalker"
That one’s mind
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy
cerebellum with its swift
matter-of-factness
logically guides the fingers
to dance across keys...
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Categories:
throbbing, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Traumatic brain injury headachesI shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim
as crushing temporal lesion push against
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves
from my forehead...
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Categories:
throbbing, allah, angel, car, care, dedication, depression, home,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Lights Ft Edgar Allan PoeI
See the phone towers with the lights-
Glowing lights!
What a world of mischief and sorrow their pattern foretells!
How they twinkle, twinkle, twinkle
In the icy air of night!
While the clouds that are...
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Categories:
throbbing, adventure, america, angst, city, deep, desire, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street BandThe boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
born at Monmouth Medical Center
in Long Branch, New Jersey,
on September 23, 1949.
His nationalities include hodgepodge
of Dutch, Irish, and...
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Categories:
throbbing, 12th grade, age, america, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
throbbing, angst, body, cancer, confusion, dark, health, hope,
Form:
Free verse
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..
fading sunlight falls in...
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Categories:
throbbing, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Soup Anthology Part 2 Inspiration To WriteWoven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
What compels their pens to shed poetic ink?
What forlorn moment inspired...
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Categories:
throbbing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
throbbing, allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
Form:
Masnavi