Long Uprooting Poems
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Sappho Translations
Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
uprooting, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
The Only Northern Northern Star
As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
uprooting, africa,
Form:
Ode
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
uprooting, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415
The First Valentine Poem
Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...
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Categories:
uprooting, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
Stages Of Life
We as human beings are characterized by different stages or periods across our lifespan, and while individuals experience these stages in their unique ways, there are some commonly recognized patterns and challenges associated with different...
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Categories:
uprooting, baptism, beauty, bible, birth, christian, encouraging, jesus,
Form:
Pastoral
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
uprooting, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
uprooting, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
uprooting, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Love Poems I
LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
uprooting, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom's Healthy Passion
"We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will."
Rumi (M. Mafi,...
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Categories:
uprooting, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...
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Categories:
uprooting, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.
Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twenty seventh two thousand and twenty four as stated in a...
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Categories:
uprooting, 7th grade, 8th grade, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Uniting States of Wisdom
We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will.
...
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Categories:
uprooting, culture, earth, love, nature, peace, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul
Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul,
Disturbs your peace, devastates your routine, transforming you into a shadow of what you once were,
Each moment under its spell an odyssey...
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Categories:
uprooting, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes
In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes,
Technology has wrapped its cold tentacles around the human soul, without us realizing,
A worldly instrument, propagated as a divine purpose,
Pulling...
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Categories:
uprooting, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
UNDERBELLIES
UNDERBELLIES
What underbelly is this
containing quiet grasping greed for
my magical sword gifted to me by St Michael ?
What...
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Categories:
uprooting, 12th grade, courage, deep, extended metaphor, growth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
February Winds
Sunday morning
time for sabbath sacraments.
He steps into gusty wind,
some fat splatter sweeps of raindrops
fall across his porch roof
on down through roaring river valley,
forceful push, then ebb
February wind storm
raining down warm wet,
a wondrous primal pair
he adores.
Neighbor...
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Categories:
uprooting, bird, health, nature, spiritual, storm, wind, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Destination
Where are you going when the sun is shining? Where are you going when the tempest is raging? The shadows are burnt out of the sky; and the clouds are rolling by with a strange...
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Categories:
uprooting, america, community, courage, death, earth, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Clinging Dresses: Sappho Translation
Sappho fragment 22
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
That enticing girl's clinging dresses
leave me trembling, overcome by happiness,
as once, when I saw the Goddess in my prayers
eclipsing Cyprus.
NOTE: This is a translation of...
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Categories:
uprooting, beauty, crush, desire, girl, girlfriend, happiness, lust,
Form:
Epigram
I Killed Myself
On a footpath of a street she lay,
It was dark outside her and inside.
Bruised hands, cut lips, dying soul,
She didn’t remember how much she had cried.
At the time he had left her and gone
And she...
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Categories:
uprooting, blessing, death, emotions, encouraging, faith, identity, motivation,
Form:
Rhyme
Damocles Sword Renamed Donald Trump Dagger O' Type
Emotional guillotine clefts
irredeemable psychological umbilical accord
witnessing heart breaking,
woe-begotten inhumane rip cord
gut wrenching shuffle board
(indiscriminately sporting)
most...
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Categories:
uprooting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Preposterous Eros
Preposterous Eros
by Michael R. Burch
“Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga
Preposterous Eros shot me in
the buttocks, with a Devilish grin,
spent all my money in a rush
then left my heart effete pink mush.
These are poems about Eros, the...
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Categories:
uprooting, desire, love, love hurts, lust, passion, romance,
Form:
Epigram
Sappho Translation: Eros
SAPPHO TRANSLATIONS
Eros harrows my heart:
wild winds whipping desolate mountains,
uprooting oaks.
—Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
No droning bee,
nor even the bearer of honey
for me!
Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
uprooting, desire, longing, love, lust, passion,
Form:
Epigram
Whiskey Hymn - First Part
for The Beloved, a night at Nedjima Bar (Ankara, Turkey)
… hypnosis shattered by atomic jiggling, salivation of song on your brow,
channeled chaos of body, spastic sound, tantrum of dark delight, unbuttoned vibrations ...
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Categories:
uprooting, love, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Walk With Me
Come take a walk with me
let us stroll the savannah
I want to show you the beauty
to introduce you to East Africa
A land seeped in dark history and mysteries
where once the Tembo roamed in their thousands
mighty...
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Categories:
uprooting, africa, magic,
Form:
Epic