Long Victor Poems
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Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
victor, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
victor, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Malkavian ThreeHis glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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Categories:
victor, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Zen Death Haiku IiToday, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
victor, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
victor, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
TaporaLike Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
victor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
victor, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
victor, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
victor, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
victor, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Theories of Every Big and Little ThingKey CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts
I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inconceivably high pile of empty...
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Categories:
victor, culture, earth, health, history, political, science, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Whips of History - 1This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
victor, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Legend of the RoseLong 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbreak of dismembering words are been exchanged between groups of rapscallions.
The...
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Categories:
victor, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends of galaxies
May it become the ‘Swan Song Poem’ of all...
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Categories:
victor, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
I Celebrate You My FriendThe year that is about to make its last appearance
before it dies and is buried to be only given a place
in the history of our existence has brought ?e joy,
l° shall...
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Categories:
victor, adventuregod, people, god, love, people, time, perspective,
Form:
ABC
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
victor, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
A Letter From MeME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing teens in America’s Black Communities.
Use to be,
Good Christian mothers,...
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Categories:
victor, black african american, conflict, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Me and My RamblingIsn't this what the Bible predicted? A false God and chaos
and plagues and bad weather and detriment caused to our
climate by global warming and pollution. We aren't supposed
to be messing around with mother...
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Categories:
victor, happiness, humorous,
Form:
Blank verse
AfghanistanHow interesting. A contest about Afghanistan.
Afghanistan sits landlocked between Pakistan on the East
and Iran on the West with a population of 39 million. It's enemy ...
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Categories:
victor, america, military, political, soldier, war,
Form:
Verse
Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”
the devil’s advocate
came waltzing
through my doors
“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away
something
not
mine
now
you're
doing time
not the criminal recidivist
nor usurping interloper
and their profound lies
every...
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Categories:
victor, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Sandy Hook Poems 2: Student TributesHere are tribute poems for exceptional children and teachers who should be alive today:
Emilie Parker,
the horror grows starker
as we see your sweet image
and cringe at the carnage;
but dear, how you mesmerize
with those vivid blue eyes
and...
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Categories:
victor, children, school, student, teacher, usa, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
African DreamIt must have been the darkest, deepest fate time create,
People saw and forgot the impact when history intervened.
We forgive and endure, but our minds will not forget
The Bizarre world trying to suppress our African...
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Categories:
victor, africa, allusion, character, dream, future, history, people,
Form:
Ballad
Jack the RipperI Jumped up suddenly out of my bed
With Jack the ripper spinning in my head
And the word cabinet kept floating in my bed
I had a very serious message to deliver
But I don't know who to...
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Categories:
victor, america, angel, beautiful, culture, england, international, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor BuhagiarPOTD 13 March 2019
Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem.
(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects and the superb narration by Dorsey Jackson (Deeja) on the...
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Categories:
victor, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Herald
Newsflash:
"Stranger times have never been
As humanity battles forces as yet unseen..
Not just those things beyond our eyes
But hidden troubles that wrestle for our lives.."
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Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Glory to the New Born King
So...
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Categories:
victor, blessing, boxing day , celebration, christian, christmas, joy,
Form:
Rhyme