Long Ulysses Poems
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Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
ulysses, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
ulysses, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
ulysses, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
ulysses, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
The Wound That Never HealsScience can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...
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Categories:
ulysses, christian, husband, mother, music, night, prayer, snow,
Form:
Verse
One KneePoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: One Knee
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 2017
One Knee
Yes, I kneel down on one knee
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem
of...
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Categories:
ulysses, africa, america, betrayal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Dilettante Diaries: the Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses
This is a story about a Butterfly
She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation.
To transform required a period of incubation,
a need to sleep to dream and
the freedom of quiet self-contemplation -
of course, such a...
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Categories:
ulysses, courage, daughter, faith, inspirational love, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part1Enjoy, Florence, because you so great are
That on seas and ground your wings you flutter,
And down in hell your name around spreads far!
I found five, among the stealers’ clutter,
Your citizens which then made me ashamed...
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Categories:
ulysses, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Into the Heart of a Soulless ExistenceInto The Heart Of A Soulless Existence
Damn these flies!
There must be a half dozen of them
Buzzing around my tiny room here,
Buzzing and humming spasmodically,
Like tongue-less eunuchs
In a locked church full...
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Categories:
ulysses, education, girl, heart, lost love, me, red,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Verses In Dialogue: Joyce and Atwood RevisedJames Joyce:
In winding streets of Dublin, I did dwell,
found Ulyssean tales to weave and tell.
In this modern age, voices rise anew.
What themes thrive, Margaret, in works like you?
Margaret Atwood:
Ah, James, your stream, like a cerebral...
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Categories:
ulysses, appreciation, literature,
Form:
Verse
The Art of EscapeDo you still wonder
now that you’ve been washed out
into fate’s unforgiving seas
why you were sentenced to a life
you swore was in the wrong body?
Living in the wrong body is a natural crime
The price
To live...
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Categories:
ulysses, anger, anxiety, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Narrative
Epigrams IiiSpeechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.
Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...
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Categories:
ulysses, humor, literature, philosophy, poems, satire, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
The Sirens and Ulysses, Etty 1837 Aka a Poem About a Painting About Part of a PoemInspired by The Sirens and Ulysses, oil painting by William Etty.
The painting depicts a scene from Homer's epic "The Odyssey," where the hero Ulysses (aka Odysseus) orders his crew to tie him to the mast...
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Categories:
ulysses, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part OnePart One
“Apart from its popular conception of transmigration, (which is) sometimes almost humouristic, Manimekhalai offers a documentary contribution of immense value, under an easily accessible form, on the philosophical speculations of Ancient India.
The cosmology of...
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Categories:
ulysses, on writing and words, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
' the Siren OdysseyOnce, A Time, I Was Accused To Be
Like A Siren of The Sea
As Ones In Ulysses’ Odyssey
but, No … That Was Not Me …
Those Sirens, Lured To Death
They Were Lethal Temptresses
Like Myth of Cursed Lilith
Or...
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Categories:
ulysses, adventure, allegory, faith, friendship, happiness, hope, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
A Poems PrayerIf everyone could just take one minute out of their day...and pray with me...
Dear Lord,
Hear me Lord,
I’m tired Lord...really tired
Tired of all the pain in the world...Lord
Tired of all the hate...
Tired of all the killing...
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Categories:
ulysses, hope, humanity, inspirational, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Cyber NymphThe Cyber Nymph
Loch David Crane
August 18, 1997
Lie back--expose your belly ring
up unto the sky. . .
I just hope when I get down close
it won't put out my eye!
That summer I was 48
and she pert...
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Categories:
ulysses, funny, funny love, internet, relationship, sensual, sun,
Form:
Ballad
Thanksgiving TimePresidents Truman, Kennedy, Regan, Biden
Sparing a turkey from a Thanksgiving table. The presidential Turkey Pardon
Massachusetts
is a truly historic state.
Indigenous people lived there for
over ten thousand years before it was
colonized by the English in the...
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Categories:
ulysses, history, thanksgiving,
Form:
Lanterne
Crystal Magnificent MorningCrystal Magnificent Morning
You should see LA
In the crystal magnificent morning of continuing time.
It is a magic that has to be seen to be believed,
And yet,
So few have truly seen the show....
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Categories:
ulysses, memory, lost, lost, magic, me, morning, sad,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Star-Crossed“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce)
“hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice)
could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to know,
The Starry Night, so treasured now, by Vincent van Gogh…
In...
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Categories:
ulysses, analogy, art, creation, fantasy, imagery, space, stars,
Form:
Ekphrasis
A Little Poem(I.)
Of Ulysses, Homer's Troy And The Wrathful Gods
I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
Climb slowly.
Eons unguessed, ere I shall see the crest
Of the blue towers, - love's high citadels
Hath...
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Categories:
ulysses, art, creation, deep, passion, poetry, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
Telemachus One***At the bequest of a friend
or two this poem is a
continuation of Tennyson''s
'Ulysses'; though I don't
expect much glory for this
write, it was one of my
finer poetic attempts;
especially Tennyson who
I think was...
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Categories:
ulysses, earth, future, mythology,
Form:
Classicism
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 05Brutus Iulius Trois Page 05
Loud laughed Pandrasus Hear the mice roar
yet stubborn Pandrasus swiftly gave chase
over the high mountain, through the deep forest
so easily he fell to the trap Brutus had laid
on Achelous's...
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Categories:
ulysses, history,
Form:
Epic
Tattarrattat- a PalindromeTattarrattat
…amazing how things change over time, from a simple knock at someone’s door, smoke signals, walking & serenading to the Pony Express, and now Cell Phones…what next, microchip implants?
Tattarrattat of sounds making universal calling to...
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Categories:
ulysses, community, culture, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Mystery's LoveThough I have been born on an island
Though the sea and the beaches make themselves seen to me so often
Each time I do sit and watch the waves
I do feel like I am roaming soul,...
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Categories:
ulysses, beach, beauty, boat, dream, sea, write,
Form:
Quatern