Long Trudge 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:
trudge, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
trudge, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
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:
trudge, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
trudge, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Children IiiPoems about Children III
Miracle
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart beat, you were mine,
and I see
infinity leap in...
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Categories:
trudge, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
trudge, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Limericks Iv - Donald TrumpLimericks IV - Donald Trump
The Hair Flap
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
The hair flap was truly a scare:
Trump’s bald as a billiard back there!
The whole nation laughed
At the state of his graft;
Now the...
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Categories:
trudge, america, humor, humorous, leadership, light, nonsense, political,
Form:
Limerick
A Week In LifeIt is Monday, today is pay the bills and light shop.
All this after we have been for the morning run.
The dogs are always keen, they trot beside me
as at ten miles an hour we cover...
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Categories:
trudge, life,
Form:
Epic
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus ChristIt is no small feat to attempt to speak
of the dying of our Lord
who sacrificed Himself for us
by a fate far worse than fire or by sword.
For one as whom not...
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Categories:
trudge, christian, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Is ThisIS THIS...? Poem 8/17/
Written for Jim Eslinger , 37-year anniversary
What are these specks we must trudge over,
Transplanting ourselves from one wilderness to
Another?...
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Categories:
trudge, christian, earth, nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
Rites and RelicsA midnight shriek or sudden bang
Disrupts the thread of tales,
Entangled in unconscious mind
With sounds of lashing flails.
Wherefrom it comes, whither it goes?
I threw my eyes up there,
The eerie void soon called me up
To trudge down...
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Categories:
trudge, bereavement,
Form:
Ballad
Walking MeditationWalking Meditation
by Odin Roark
“And I thought marriage was hard.”
Taking Meditation for a walk
nags me with...
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Categories:
trudge, hope, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Holy SaturdayOn wooden cross, The Christ was nailed;
His Spirit tossed, painful death sailed...
The centurion's lance pierced His side;
In sure fashion, blood water strides.
The Christ was gone from the grim earth;
Limp body forlorn waiting new birth.
His empty...
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Categories:
trudge, faith,
Form:
Couplet
Snowy SeasonOur cold crisp air augurs an early snow before Thanksgiving. I need to look for my warm fur-lined gloves. The snow tires are heaven knows where in our cluttered garage, but they must be searched...
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Categories:
trudge, family, winter,
Form:
Haibun
Sagittarian SuretyIt is decidedly so,
That I shall go where you go
And in our journeys
I shall never let my love tire
The stars deem it worthy
Your fire is my truest desire
For this is decidedly so
And nobody will quite...
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Categories:
trudge, dedication, deep, desire, devotion, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Who I Once WasCan I just rewind time? Go back to when I was nothing more than happy. To when sadness didn't invade the last thoughts I had. How do you achieve that back? Try to make your...
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Categories:
trudge, dark, deep, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Dark Angels of HighgateEnough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward, say, Golubushka, make me...
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Categories:
trudge, death,
Form:
Sestina
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross the Doggerland dogged people trudge
Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enforcing southward retreat
remoulding the...
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Categories:
trudge, conflict, destiny, england, history, humanity, immigration, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Poems about Science 1: ClimateClimate Change Haiku
by Michael R. Burch
late November:
climate skeptics scoff
but the geese no longer migrate.
The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct
by Michael R. Burch
The king of beasts, my child,
was terrible, and wild.
His roaring...
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Categories:
trudge, earth, earth day, environment, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse ILight verse and nonsense verse
Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe distance
let me admire your persistence.
The Trouble with Elephants
by Michael R. Burch...
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Categories:
trudge, animal, fun, humor, humorous, light, nature, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
My Favorite Anecdote From UrduThis is my best story in
my mother tongue urdu
which I translated and
tried my best to turn it
into a poem in english
Luqman who was a
merchant wiseman and
his son
bought themselves...
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Categories:
trudge, urdu, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
RoundsRounds
by Michael R. Burch
Solitude surrounds me
though nearby laughter sounds;
around me mingle men who think
to drink their demons down,
in rounds.
Now agony still hounds me
though elsewhere mirth abounds;
hidebound I stand and try to think,
not sink still further...
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Categories:
trudge, addiction, birth, drink, drug, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Nocturne Opus 9 Number 1This hasn't quite worked, so I'll have to revisit it. I listened to Chopin Opus 9 number 1 for inspiration and got lots of sprawling thoughts. I tried to put them into a Rondeau Redoublé...
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Categories:
trudge, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Tomorrow, At Dawn- Demain, Des L'AubeFrench Version -
Demain, dès l'aube by Victor Hugo
Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la montagne.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de...
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Categories:
trudge, grief,
Form:
Verse
Cantos of TimeMoments are not the retinue of time. There is one which
decides the turning point of mankind. I can’t hand over to sighs
that time which stands and beckons me. To hell with the shades
to recline and...
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Categories:
trudge, angst, anxiety, leadership,
Form:
Epic