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Medieval Poems Iv
Medieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
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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Categories:
weaned, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
weaned, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
weaned, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
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 lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
weaned, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
weaned, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
weaned, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
weaned, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
weaned, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
courtesy the comfort of his mancave,
I (a mutated batman wannabe)
doth prattle and stump
and display wide whirled webbed
and variegated tail feathers
(also...
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Categories:
weaned, abuse, america, anxiety, august, destiny, freedom, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
weaned, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris
How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.
An enchantress and a minor goddess
in ancient Greek mythology and religion
depicted...
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Categories:
weaned, 12th grade, adventure, age, beautiful, literature, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,...
a willing experimental subject
to escape untenable married life.
Upon falling into a deep slumber,
the following subconscious
somnambulant scenario arose
allowing, enabling, and providing
temporary alleviation from
outa harried...
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Categories:
weaned, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Digital Creationism
Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)
Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...
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Categories:
weaned, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Devil's Advocate Claims Teflon Trump
Devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump...
The demagogue reincarnate
feels gifted to reign supreme
captivates, glorifies, lauds,
renounces, yawps extreme
views bellows dogmatic fulminations
in an attempt to redeem
stolen 2020 capital one bid.
Which hunter (biden his time)
will reap grim...
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Categories:
weaned, 12th grade, abortion, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute To the Street Kids of Mumbai Documentary
Tribute to The Street Kids of Mumbai Documentary
I used to pick pockets
And steal tomato at the market place
I beg on the streets of Mumbai, India’s largest city
I stop drivers and ask for...
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Categories:
weaned, childhood, children, devotion, environment, lost, parents, poverty,
Form:
Narrative
A Tribute To My Dog
"Who can bear to lose a tie
With a dog that is man’s best ally? .......by poet
"Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel
unable to wag his tail as he always did.
yesterday when I saw him,...
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Categories:
weaned, angst, animal, death, dog,
Form:
Free verse
Dump Trump The demagogue Hitler reincarnate!
Dump Trump - The demagogue Hitler reincarnate!
Countdown to Armageddon
precariously, lugubriously, hellaciously,
and deleteriously hinges
potential apocalypse now outcome,
mere smattering weeks away
if the brazen, fierce-some
amazing dragon doth don
trumps presidential throne -
ships with whistling ...
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Categories:
weaned, america, anger, autumn, evil, future, language, november,
Form:
Free verse
Kissing Carol Ann
Back in 1957
kissing Carol Ann
behind the barn
in the middle of
a windswept field
of Goldenrod
with a sudden deer
watching was
something special,
let me tell you.
Back then, bobby sox
and...
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Categories:
weaned, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Dump Trump the Demagogue Reincarnate
to parlay view to unleash nuclear weapons on cue
destroying vast swaths of flora and fauna,
most inn no cent life forms pay hefty due
to assuage aggressively cruel, enjoyably
growling goal,...
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Categories:
weaned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
I do not know?
Ariadne
Daidalos played with poison
and the gormandizing mind of a king
corrupting DNA with his brilliance.
Poseidon’s patronage,
issues from unknown depths of depravity.
Pasiphae bore this monstrosity
and carried the shame
as women do.
AyeeeI The minds of men bent inwards
without love,...
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Categories:
weaned, adventure, devotion, history, inspirational, philosophy, politicallife, men,
Form:
Epic
Here I am Send me Isaiah 6:8 conclusion
Just as Hannah dedicated her son, Samuel to the LORD, the LORD God also
selected Isaiah to himself. Then I heard the voice of the LORD saying, "Whom
should I send? And who will...
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Categories:
weaned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Here I am Send me Isaiah 6:8 part fifteen NIV
If our LORD, God were to ask anyone else these two questions today?
"Whom shall I send? "Who will go for us?" Like the prophet Isaiah,
"Here I am. Send me!"How would anyone of you chose...
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Categories:
weaned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Dump Trump the Demagogue Hitler Reincarnate
Countdown to Armageddon precariously hinges
potential apocalypse outcome, mere smattering days away
if the brazen, fierce-some dragon doth don
trumps presidential throne -
ships with whistling ...
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Categories:
weaned, allegory, anger, angst, anxiety, death, earth, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
Towards the Horizon
Towards the Horizon
Sitting in a corner, absorbing the incandescent hue,
A malt for company, awaiting a magical cue,
I often wonder, all these years, where were you?
I reflect upon the days which could have been,
I reminiscent our...
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Categories:
weaned, birthday, cheer up, encouraging, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
My Heavenly Granddaughter
Heaven Leigh Kent,
With whom a lot of my time has been spent,
Non of which I even slightly resent,
I assure you, she certainly thinks I am a gent!
When she was two,
The things we use to do,
Was...
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Categories:
weaned, allegory, loveworld, heart, age, heaven, age, heart,
Form:
Rhyme