Long Vastly Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
vastly, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
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!
*
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:
vastly, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
vastly, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
vastly, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Albert Einstein Poems
ALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
vastly, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
vastly, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
vastly, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
vastly, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
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:
vastly, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Veronica Franco Translations
Veronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
vastly, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
vastly, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
vastly, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
vastly, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The Daily Show and Tell
Dear Toni,
I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.
I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...
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Categories:
vastly, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
The Scorpion's Touch
“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are magnified
in our tight enclosures
internally observed
the external turns away
two heart...
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Categories:
vastly, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems Ii - Bertolt Brecht
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt Brecht
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled...
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Categories:
vastly, books, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Permaculture Design Operetta
This Permaculture Design Operetta
comes out from within you
with universally acclaimed Grand Patriarchal Earth Rights
to sing in reverse harmonic rhythms and blues
with Full-Octave Matriarchal Earther Feminists Wronged,
marginalized in pre-millennial peace-maker roles
postmillennially re-inheriting the Good Society's climate...
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Categories:
vastly, destiny, health, humanity, humor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
No Second Chances
I've been watching the people across the street for about a year now. We wave at each other every once in a while, not really much more than seeing a familiar face without a name....
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Categories:
vastly, death, emotions, grandfather, grandmother, people, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
To Grow Peace
To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,
Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze
on a monotonous monocultural path
Disassociating
internal v external
navel v social
my...
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Categories:
vastly, adventure, earth, education, environment, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 21
The waters of the Holy Spirit stirred with strength
And commenced to churn itself alive inside the well,
Forming a new maelstrom so radiant it seemed to rise in special presentation,
Roaring its heartfelt existence known
Our prince roared...
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Categories:
vastly, change, conflict, courage, devotion, inspiration, love, pain,
Form:
Epic
Never Enough 2
Along the desert SANDS of what seemed to be a 'no man's LAND' in Eastern Mesopotamia, there was discovered a KING and a people group of unknown language and ORIGIN. No one ever knew for...
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Categories:
vastly, fantasy, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Better Health Crisis Planning
How much simpler
and yet vastly more complex,
diversely resonant,
past decisions to hire the credentialed professional elite
also choices not to hire a charismatic
brown-skinned
ecofeminist,
And how much more resilient
urgently cooperative
corporate win/win covenant repercussions might have been
if we stopped compartmentalizing,
and...
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Categories:
vastly, appreciation, caregiving, community, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Fast Forward
I was going to be late to work again, as it was one of those days,
When one small mishap after another, made for way too many delays.
Lateness had become a genuine problem, to a person...
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Categories:
vastly, fantasy, growth, imagery, nature, time, work,
Form:
Couplet
Time's Ecoconsciousness
Ecotherapy,
including permaculture design's care of
Self,
Other biosystems,
Earth Whole EcoSystem,
as three faces of Gaia Goddess holonic trinity,
transmillennially emerges an intricately interdependent paradigm--
clinical as natural eco-political cooperation's
Positive Deviance Psychology.
Transmillennial regenerators are learning
to see with new eyes,
hear with bilateral...
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Categories:
vastly, earth, math, nature, philosophy, science, time,
Form:
Free verse
Never Enough
In the what seems to be a 'no man's land' in Eastern Mesopotamia,
there was discovered a king and people group with an unknown language.
No one ever knew for certain where this king or his kingdom...
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Categories:
vastly, people,
Form:
Verse