Long Welkin Poems

As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...

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1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / mind fug stills

2....

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Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting

and all I remember
upon awaking

is: to Love sometimes
is...

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Beowulf Excerpts
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes
whose clan-thanes ruled in days bygone,
possessed of dauntless courage and valor.

All have heard the honors the...

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These are English translations of Medieval poems written in Old English.



The Battle of Maldon
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 991 AD or later
translation by Michael R. Burch
 
…would be broken.

Then he bade each warrior unbridle his...

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It all started five decades ago, when her gift of imagination began to grow. 
She was the youngest of five and could not wait for her to arrive.
Velvety soft skin so fair, along with lots...

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Note: "The original hymn text was written as a "Hymn for Christmas-Day" by Charles Wesley, included in the 1739 John Wesley collection Hymns and Sacred Poems writing, (song) HARK how all the Welkin rings "Glory...

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Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a myriad melange of
Tortured splenetic
Souls and great spirits
Noble and soothfast

Great city,...

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This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by 
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.

Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that 
swallows whole all of the lightest and darkest;
Peaks,...

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The welkin above and the stars thereof
are a true delight to behold.
There we’re connected in something to love
through the sky that can all enfold.

Boundaries vanish and strife disappears
by assuming perspective grand
when together we look at...

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Dawn To Moonlit Night

My day begins with dawn when
naughty dew drops glisten in the garden
the sun shines bright like a diamond
cool breeze astounds with its freshness
wind spellbinds with its chime
nature seems to be at its...

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I close my eyes tight to commence my imagination on welkin...
I start off speedily..!!
The bubbly clouds carries the expired souls swiftly and releases nearby the heavenly door which eagerly awaits their entry through sprinkled petals.....

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“Happiness is contagious. It can be sparked by one single happy man, making it spread into many, as a small amount of yeast ferments large quantities of dough" – By Poet


Happiness is seeing beauty in...

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Transcendence

Winter strides past halcyon autumnal daze
On sweeping ariels of barren hues
Brittle bones of blue with fiery breath 
Sun drench soul icicles marrow like nebula stars
When decrepit doldrums descend
As winter Daphne slowly returns
Her satin clusters, in...

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It's the wind that scuttle
Had it not left me troubled?
Bewildered and peculiar am I
The strange looks of the sky
Rains by as the day sleeps the night
And welkin seems 
It broke down a frail sigh
Thus, emitted...

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In Marked Territory 10-28-24 - Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
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In Marked Territory

Midnight tightly clasps the darkness,
Like a wounded heart,
In between topaz edges of twilight
 And pastels of first light.

Jealous of its cosmos
Shoos away the master of the...

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A severe façade of loving tolerance
Dipped in an argentine semblance
The Consuls of The Cross
Weaving a sweven of Welkin
Where the checkered ones
Are never allowed
Their souls cast into the flames
Of a greater decay
The never ending pit
Of eternal...

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 ALL OF ME 

World's written with the fictions that one can't explain ,
The streams full of photonic dust leads to abodes in gain. 

Empyreal deity embraces me ,
Episodic cuddlefests then braces me .
Bouts and...

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I'm not there yet,the welkin hasn't shone an aureole above me yet.
I do not fret,since they already are,who they were born to be.
I'm holding back my voice,as their echo bursts through the valley of silence.

Now...

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Frisking in that saffron warmth
It came to me, and forgotten mirth
Once again rang in my chamber 
To the tune that just took birth
To quell this long slumber. 

I was still asleep, cold and dry, 
Barren...

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As the saccharine shadows of daylight dims
You can hear the melodies of eager eve
Tangerine sunsets composing chrysanthemum hymns
Songs that the sun with the zephyr does weave

The tempo played by the vibrant sky is before us
Marigolds...

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It was in this land of animated nature
Under a moonlit cloak of stars
I was drawn to the glow of a Nymph
She glows as she pirouettes on top a meadow's lake
The zealous winds speak of you
Spiritess...

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Crimson carnations create chords of casual charm, 
Happy hyacinths harmonise in their psychedelic hues, 
Bright bubbles of hope in crusading sunset, 
Soft sepia smiles sent down from the Shepherd above, 
Burnished beams of bright sunrays...

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Oh, buoyant sky!
Oh, bashful clouds!
Caught between
My skull and space
Intangible poise
Masterfully laced 
Unique dimensions
Concoct bountiful art
The seminal work 
We work within
The prized piece
We puzzle to piece
With peace and numbers
With virtuous grease   
Some sunny days...

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