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Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa

“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”

Spurred by mother dearest 
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.

Back in the day 
quaint...

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Categories: traces, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme

Erin

Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...

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Categories: traces, ireland,
Form: Sonnet

Uyghur Poetry Translations

With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.

Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Asylum seekers, will...

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Categories: traces, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form: Free verse

Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To Church

Early morning dawn July
"Mallory"  Damian whispered, sliding 
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered 
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...

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Categories: traces, angst, devotion,
Form: Alliteration

Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2

[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...

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Categories: traces, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii

Juvenilia: Early Poems VII

These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.

The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch

The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.

The weak implore Fate;
bold men...

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Categories: traces, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Bitter Wind - Page 2

The laws are not in the management of the soul, but the greatest science fruits are punished with the sounds of the rails that follow the trains of the cows living without breaking the suffering...

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Categories: traces, literature,
Form: Free verse

Cocoon


"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect 
strings of silk 
in the air

glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...

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Categories: traces, muse,
Form: Narrative

Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 1 By T Wignesan

Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...

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Categories: traces, imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form: Free verse

How Huxley Sees the World

"How Huxley Sees the World"



He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from 
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth 
from a perspective unique
a hare...

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Categories: traces, art, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part Two By T Wignesan

Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...

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Categories: traces, art, creation, literature, philosophy, word play, writing,
Form: Free verse

Fall

"FALL"



I wrap
my Autumn world
around you

Calliope turning
raising the 
season’s poetry, 

I am she
returning 

dancing 
with Summer’s 
dying leaves 

Twirling you up into 
my warm golden brown 
symphony

hear me sing, 
whispering notes,
holding keys 

towards you 
you're approachable
reaching...

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Categories: traces, autumn, symbolism, winter,
Form: Epic

He Said, I Said

How the housefly gets attracted to organic decay
and an infant child traces the voice of its mother
are nothing compared to the intense attraction
Michelle and I possess on the guy owning not a strand of hair...

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Categories: traces, art, boyfriend, character, emotions, girlfriend, hello,
Form: Epic

Stop the Hate Unity In These Times

Bruh, I know your up but it’s getting late
I got to make peace with you
Hommie I have bitten off more then I could chew
I’m sweating from the new day’s sun
now I know your in for...

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Categories: traces, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse

Bitter Wind - Page 1

Bitter Wind 

With the winds beginning in the autumn season, the Soul seems to be a leaf falling towards new pain. 
In the heat of the fire flying with the wind, it inhales us with...

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Categories: traces, literature, war,
Form: Free verse

Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 4 By T Wignesan

 Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan


"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...

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Categories: traces, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form: Free verse

Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy Translation

This is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912. 

Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Every angel...

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Categories: traces, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form: Elegy

Snow

The very fact of being alive, often causes one to seek adventure;
And sometimes it is no deterrent, when it carries traces of danger.

I was not a seasoned survivalist, but very much loved the outdoors,
Like varicolored...

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Categories: traces, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, magic, mountains, snow,
Form: Couplet

Rough Roads To Roam

The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...

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Categories: traces, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form: Rhyme

Softly Off-Colored Poem - 2

Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure. The poem writing technique is to write as unconsciously as...

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Categories: traces, life,
Form: Free verse

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 47

“Well, Joulupukki, how do you feel about the conversation we had with Seileach, at evening meal, the other night?”  They had not spoken much for the last few days, Dyndoeth concerned with the safety...

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Categories: traces, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Unsent Letters


Those who’ve gone on before me… what I would have liked to have told them – in those unsent letters, those unwritten stories, those unbroken promises, those unsteady poems, those unbleached memoirs – before the...

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Categories: traces, cry, death, lonely,
Form: Free verse

1856 Revisited - PART ONE

It's been just over seven months since I fell off the roof
I'd never believed in miracles, but they happen I'm proof
Apart from a limp when walking I was feeling quite well
And that I'd suffered a...

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Categories: traces, america, death, england, fantasy, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

The Unborn Dreams of a Fertilization 1942a Long Journey a Long Lived Nightmare Part 1

The unborn dreams of a fertilization  – 1942
A long journey  – A long lived  nightmare

The journey begins without knowledge, just passion.
Life emerges, fights against the prodding at childhood.
The nightmare begins with a...

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