Long Wavelike Poems

Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

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as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....

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Angelus Silesius Translations

The rose merely blossoms
and never asks why:
heedless of her beauty,
careless of every eye.
?Angelus Silesius, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

The rose lack reasons
and merely sways with the seasons;
she has no ego
but whoever put...

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My name is Pérola, born among thorns beneath steely rocks
By the great Bay, where its sons harvest fish for the government mint against their sweat
The teacher points at my eye for its vile afloat

My grandfather,...

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Sparkling light on windblown surface
Sun reflection motion purpose 
duck's and seagull's bathe in gold
welcome breeze invite it's fold

Willow hang dangle yonder shore
watering flower on edge adorn
music so peaceful lulling effect
gracing wonderful beauty respect

Thin pillowed cloud...

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Audible 
sounds
swimming 
throughout
smoothness
...moving
dripping 
refractions
bouncing 
off lies
contrived
...propogation 
volitionally 
absorbing
waves
tinkering
acousticly
drumming
pathways 
hearing
resounding
why's...
compliantly
audible 
sounds
reflecting
losses...
hearing 
outside
lines...
unbroken
 mining...
slipping 
under
surfaces
...muffing
reality 
beating
...flooding
...drowning
...undermining 
wavelike
reverbeating
liveliness 
...surfacing
beneath 
audibly 
sounding
rhyming
...timing
broken
acoustically 
lying...

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