Long Trifle Poems
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Rilke Translations Ii
Come, 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:
trifle, tribute,
Form:
Verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
trifle, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
trifle, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Michelangelo: Modern English Translations
MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
trifle, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Rilke Translations I
Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic 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...
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Categories:
trifle, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of...
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Categories:
trifle, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Midnight To 3:33 Morning Kills
"Midnight to 3.33, Morning Kills"
He said,
“Go to where the poets go
Love rolls wet and sways
Intensity wraps itself inside out
and somersaults its legs backward
to open a way
Out
It’s kind of burning hot
like Summer burns
bare...
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Categories:
trifle, feelings, freedom, muse,
Form:
Free verse
How To Be Glum
Stan was feeling somewhat glum,nay even despairing,on Monday morning.
Mary had gone to work on her new folding 6 gear bicycle with own basket and an extra basket from Wells-next -the- Sea 1995
[the wicker basket now...
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Categories:
trifle, adventure, angst, blessing, love,
Form:
Free verse
On Hearing That Ronnie
for Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood
...
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Categories:
trifle, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form:
Elegy
Tears Of A Clown
Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or the surreptitious posture of the laugh it off as...
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Categories:
trifle, angst, anxiety, august, confusion, deep, emotions, sad,
Form:
Free verse
A coffee and a love
A coffee and a love,
On the seashore, hidden under the shade of a canopy,
Pensive, I gaze emptily, outside the deserted beach.
There's no bustle, no noise around me,
The sun burns gently, the wind is calm and...
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Categories:
trifle, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Minotuar
Ah! Here comes another pawn* should I trifle with him?
Or should I do it quickly and painlessly?
Well, if I think about it quickly and painlessly would be better
Because there are consequences to having a...
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Categories:
trifle, adventure, animal, dark, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
An X-Mess Carol
"An X-Mess Carol"
Somewhere standing barefoot
in the sand, she thought with guilty pleasure
“This is the KORO SEA!” and
conjured up a multitude of story scenarios
Buccaneers, Pirates Parlay, Treasure Maps,
Davy Jones Locker, Jack Sparrow, Ho’es
you know, those...
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Categories:
trifle, absence, abuse, children, christmas, daughter, emotions, mother
Form:
Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Viii
Wonderworks
by Michael R. Burch
History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.
The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. Burch
It’s always, “Tomorrow, I’ll do it.”
Work? I eschew it.
I never collect money I’ve loaned
and the rest of this poem’s been postponed.
WHEN...
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Categories:
trifle, fun, funny, funny love, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Mental Hell and Shell of Myself
4/7/21
"
(Chorus)
Hanging out at the continental shelf
I've been living in a mental hell
I'm now just a shell of myself
Realize the importance of dental health
People with nothing and others with exceptional wealth
I've become a professional at stealth
Realize...
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Categories:
trifle, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Elevated One
I climbed atop the mountains,
To find the Elevated One,
He is in one of it's summits,
Living all alone.
I found him under a tree,
Can't be found by anyone,
I sit beside him,
Tired and done.
I began to speak,
"O' Elevated...
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Categories:
trifle, poems, poetry, spiritual, vanity, wisdom,
Form:
Ballad
Love of Words
zilch = the current net result dabbling with said medium
which upside per literary skill
allows, enables and provides
a golden opportunity
to write my own nonestablishmentarian epitaph.
Though gleeful at assiduous...
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Categories:
trifle, appreciation, creation, emotions, freedom, fun, image, joy,
Form:
I do not know?
Revival 2 Point Ohh
Admittedly a little bit of me can see I have an ability
missing ambition to mission living submissively in submission,
If I believe built into me
a skill too free
up my sleeve capability
I'll gift to me...
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Categories:
trifle, desire, hip hop, poetry, power, rap, smart,
Form:
Rhyme
Hellroaring Hank
Prospector Hank rode down the canyon cold
Ten years on the trail, out looking for gold,
Hank found a camp, not long abandoned then
In the dust lay tracks, of cows and of men.
Why cows would be here,...
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Categories:
trifle, adventure, courage, hero, history, strength,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Michelangelo Translations
MICHELANGELO TRANSLATIONS
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He and his fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci, were rivals for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man. Michelangelo is...
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Categories:
trifle, angel, art, beautiful, beauty, creation, eulogy, visionary,
Form:
Epigram
Life On Farthest Planet
Spit free roads with no traffic
Pit free streets of designs prolific
Rich cultural heritage and intellect
Folks-full of compassion and perfect
Discipline innate and mission oriented
Pupils are prodigal and celebrated
Duty seems to safeguard their land
All the nations are...
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Categories:
trifle, angel, appreciation, art,
Form:
Couplet
King Trishanku
His voice raised, with the right hand
And a proud, angry face to the sky,
The sage chanted mastered hymns aloud;
His strange mission was to send
King Satyavrata into the abode high;
The latter was under a cloud of...
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Categories:
trifle, philosophy,
Form:
Lyric
While Caesar Watches For Brutus Part One
The world is so mechanical
It is so scientific
It's getting to be so-so difficult
Everything works at a fingers touch
Everything is speeded up too much
Neon lights the night
Smog darkens the sunlight
Time is to the seconds
While details...
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Categories:
trifle, fun, humorous, life, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter of Desserts
Ruminating on the events over two-thousand years ago:
the life, suffering, death, burial of Jesus, and the exciting,
dramatic, and supernatural arousal of Christ, incarnate -
from death to life, of the imputation - his sacrifice.
Jesus is the...
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Categories:
trifle, christian,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To My Friend - V
To my dearest dear…
Am going through a very bad phase
Loads of works and above all business targets,
Once you came to my thought
And out of all yips, I smiled back for a second
Those flicks with...
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Categories:
trifle, caregiving, dedication, faith, friendship, happinessfriend, me, miss
Form:
Classicism