Long Wantonness Poems
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Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
wantonness, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
wantonness, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
wantonness, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets 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:
wantonness, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy 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:
wantonness, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
wantonness, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
The Willing Dogs of PeaceThere is no argument from myself here, friend,
If anything, that you can, and do appreciate; just as much as you are applying yourself towards these "seven" efforts' below, that is helpful to all parties...
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Categories:
wantonness, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 3rd
Form:
Bio
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS 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:
wantonness, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
wantonness, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
wantonness, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
God Loves MeNo matter what you've done
in the past
I was in Idolatry, greed, covetousness, love of money,
I was Complaining, not loving God full of gluttony,
High-mindedness, disobedience, lover of self,
GOD LOVES ME
I put family,...
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Categories:
wantonness, corruption, encouraging, engagement, faith, forgiveness, perspective,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Forgive Us, Dr KingYou died for our equal treatment, and we demand "affirmative action."
You died for integration, and we justify segregation when we throw public brawls and destroy property.
You died to stop the Klan and the supremacists from...
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Categories:
wantonness, africa, betrayal, black african american, christian, community,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Poets ViiiPoems for Poets VIII
Fireflies
thinking to illuminate the darkness?
Poets!
—Michael R. Burch
BeMused
by Michael R. Burch
You will find in her hair
a fragrance more severe
than camphor.
You will find in her dress
no hint of a sweet
distractedness.
You will find in her...
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Categories:
wantonness, poems, poetry, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Meleager TranslationsIf I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch
Love, how can I call on you;
does...
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Categories:
wantonness, desire, drink, feelings, for her, girl, girlfriend,
Form:
Epigram
Poems about Science 6: EvolutionPOEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION
Singularity
by Michael R. Burch
Are scientists confounded like the ostrich?
Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!*
This universe, so magical, they say,
proves there’s no God. But let’s look anyway ...
He said, *Let...
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Categories:
wantonness, earth, life, light, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is PoetryWhat is Poetry?
It is a theosophy of thought and commentary;
transposed euphemisms of life’s temporal moments;
It is an attempt to fractalize single ideas and envelop them
with metaphorical symbols reinterpreted and played with.
It is an...
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Categories:
wantonness, allegory, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets ViiPoems for Poets VII
Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch
(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)
Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be glad the stone-tongued apes are stricken dumb
by anything like music;...
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Categories:
wantonness, love, music, night, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
My Sin Is Great But God's Grace Is GreaterMY SIN IS GREAT BUT GOD'S GRACE IS GREATER
My sin is great but
God's grace is greater
Your sin is great but
God's grace is greater
I may have been a idolater, greedy, in covetousness, gluttony
Complaining, not loving...
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Categories:
wantonness, community, engagement, feelings, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Pastoral
Haughty Display Drove Humpty Dumpty To His FallHumpty Dumpty starred in a nursery rhyme…
His fall accordingly was the talk at that time
Soon it was labeled as a mysterious crime
Needing solution thru wisdom’s prime!
Here am I submitting my document
Compliant to prudent investigative requirement.
The...
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Categories:
wantonness, character, cheer up, faith, inspirational, meaningful, nursery
Form:
Rhyme
William Dunbar Translation: Sweet Rose of VirtueSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar [1460-1525]
translation by Michael R. Burch
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that is held most...
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Categories:
wantonness, longing, loss, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form:
Sonnet
The Vatican Part 3Out of my fire chain of mind I shall speak once and no more. degrees unfold the eternal prophets with strokes from the silent hammer., and life and light are frozen. the church deformity has...
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Categories:
wantonness, religion,
Form:
Sonnet
Death By LoveI once knew what it feels like to lose myself in the fantasy that is Love
My thoughts would be filled only with her, her smile, her touch, her everything
I’d lose track of time staring at...
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Categories:
wantonness, death, heartbreak, metaphor, relationship, romance, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Poorpoor CasanovaPoor, Poor Casanova
Once in a time,
in a place known as Umbria.
Spied dist I, oh grand lake!
Trasimeno ,Trasimeno
Twas said,” oh So many roman soldiers
were slain here in some long forgotten war.”
Unto the waters sleep...
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Categories:
wantonness, romance,
Form:
Ballad
MoneyMoney is better than barter
Money is better than share
Money takes you further than you dare
Though hands, not money built my walls
Hands put together materials to paint my hall
Metals I dug came before all.
I fell...
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Categories:
wantonness, betrayal, funny, how i feel, marriage, money,
Form:
Narrative
Solution Prospects Grow Bleak and WeakLeave free agents alone
Bully
For they’ve got no time to be the clone
You hurt truly and deeply
In games without aim
Where you torture and suture at will
Treating victims the same
Way happiness you steal
To boost your roost
Bereft of...
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Categories:
wantonness, poems,
Form:
Free verse