Long Unpalatable Poems

Sonnets X-XVI


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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Incredible! Where could little girl of her age be going under this cold weather at this hour barefootedly and bareheadedly?What could have sent a poor girl she was to street with just oversized slippers she...

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Pasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum

Spoiling for a fight and fighting for spoils,
his army swept across Farabia
like a bloody...

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Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounded prepubescent,

I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler), 
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...

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And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs                        ...

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Hypothetically, what if I (a born again atheist)...
tentatively took page from playbook of devout believers...

Allowing, enabling, and providing
cautious optimism to abound
thus easing grief instead
reason to rejoice found
once corpse cremated
or buried underground.

Whereby reincarnation will eventually...
mitigate grief...

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Gazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over 
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap 
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes, petty
Grudges and childish jealousies -
Ably demonstrated by various
Patchworks of shabbily...

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The Greeks have three words for love, and the English has only one.
They are: Agape(Godly), Eros(Romantic), and Phileo(Friendship).                 ...

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The Egyptian standard falls, unto histories surrendering, 
The deserts breath, is so stilled,  under the Nile river's
Murky abyss, busted masts, heave against the 
Heavily laden hauls,taring the ships apart,
As the Egyptian fleet sinks beneath...

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For long I have been an aimless vagabond
I strayed far, the world being enormously wide.
Traveling to lands foreign, I searched my fortune.
At the end, fed up with all that was alien,
And wishing to withdraw from...

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SPRING IN AIR, LOVE ONLINE                              ...

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he was making so much turbulence

that he needed windbreaker trousers

his farting more than gas from cheeks

but a fluid blown attack on decency

and common sense in torrential times


full of ..it he let go off all inhibition

and...

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THE CRACK ON THE WALL

The pillar of which I stand has fallen
After you bed my sister and, the world
Has gone against you before I do.
You singer of royal song, your drums are
Dumb to my ears...

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The sound she heard before was deafening
Curiosity made her seek the sound 
Thinking it was an act of joking
Up the stairs she began to look around
Not seeing anything at first she called out
Not getting a...

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Fresh cherries ripened upon the weeping bough,
alive with rustic sheen, taut of skin;
perfect teeth cleave through the surface flesh
and spit away unpalatable stone;
for it has no meaning,
existing to be discarded, forgotten.
Yet without it
there would be...

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Submerged in a rat race, to keep the number high. 

compromised the truth of the Prince of Peace, 

imported science, liberalism and other form of philosophies. 

to obscure the simplicity of the gospel,

Biblical illiterates lulled...

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Nestled somewhere inside my
head, next to pictures of you,
are tiny tidbits, crumbs have you,
of conversations. Pauses as I 
watched you be.  Smells of
cigarette smoke and scented candles.
Like strobe lights, they flicker
on and off, leaving...

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"God give you the strength to finish this your way"?
I don't think you are first on his list, a special chair on judgment day?
better meditate, get it straight, rinse and repeat, people are people
so maybe...

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Emerging from cooperative economic indecision,
a leftwinged political decision
"Too big to fail"
is also our unecological rightwinged euphemism
for a politically unpalatable
"Too rich to fail."

This has nothing healthy
or equitable to do with democratic community,
with non-violent solidarity,
with green communion,
...

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Our ashes have settled on the cliff of pride
while the seed of today sprouts your frailty beginning.
We have at last seen the face of our god
which you have not even learned to utter
or never will...

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AM NOT AFRAID TO DIE

I Guess We are who we are
Headlight shine in darkness
Let my emotions drives on
Never in the mood to react
Don't place the horrible blame on me

We search into our separate past
Maybe we...

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Swiftly the wind blew
We thought it'd be but a few
But it left something so new
It was a sad and unpalatable news

Just when we were asking
We thought you'd still be breathing
We are left with our jaws...

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IF YOU HAVE TO GO
Let the clock go anti clockwise
So that You Could  remember
What we had together which is
So hard to erease from the surface 
Of the earth and the planet of love,
Death is...

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Such pipedream regarding
winning bucket loads of cash,
would make monetary woes
in an instantaneous flash
mine dentures no longer
will futilely grind and gnash,
cuz I would undergo oral surgery
and simultaneously acquire

mush sought after gumption,
where dental implants
could offer million dollar...

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My muse is on fire, she burns at the stake 
  guilty of poetasting, and glaring mistakes
  Inferior rhymes with old Monoku outtakes 
  blaze all around her, as embers are raked...

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