Long Wring out Poems
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Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
wring out, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
wring out, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
wring out, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Farewell, PhantomsI, heart on sleeve ... proudly? I suppose, in a contrite way ...
but it's beyond my breadth to control, so it is what it IS.
...
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Categories:
wring out, hope, lost love, relationship, true love, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Piece of the PieThis was only our second date...
A Black Tie Affair...
...Set against an incredible view,
vineyards, waterfalls,
a plentitude of flower beds,
all just outside a charming postcard Town.
This indeed was a serious event,
anyone who was anyone...
and my date...were here.
A...
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Categories:
wring out, humor,
Form:
Narrative
SequestrationI never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve graduated from the torment.
My...
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Categories:
wring out, death, loneliness, longing, pain, political, repetition, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections In a PuddleI see me,
seeing me..
In the surface of a reflection...
I see the past, the present
And a future not yet mentioned.
Who am I on the opposite side
Of that reflection?
This man that lives and breathes
With all these...
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Categories:
wring out, beauty, deep, life, remember,
Form:
I do not know?
Call Me TexWhen I was just a teenage lad, and growing up out west
I never wore a cowboy hat or fancy leather vests,
never put on cowboy boots or western shirts with snaps,
never wore tooled leather belts, much...
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Categories:
wring out, home, humorous, me, satire, , western,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Marat and Charlotte 4Act 4.
Marat
Where do these tears come from? My makeup
is melting in the spotlight. She has gone.
Oh, how I wished to tell her… I did not.
I wished to tell but I forgot the words
to say according...
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Categories:
wring out, death, love,
Form:
Blank verse
UnreachableShe was having a certain level of difficulty discerning the exact moment it had started. She knew it started somewhere…everything else did. Maybe it had been during the summer that she could not smile. Not...
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Categories:
wring out, creation, depression, emotions, loneliness, muse, solitude, sorrow,
Form:
Prose
Zen Death Haiku IiiZEN DEATH HAIKU III
Spring
stirs the clouds
in the sky's teabowl
—Kikusha-ni, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Tonight I saw
how the peony crumples
in the fire's embers
—Katoh Shuhson, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops:
flashes...
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Categories:
wring out, angst, animal, death, life, nature, sorrow, time,
Form:
Haiku
Anti Establishmentarian Hashtags Himself As AntitheticalAnti Establishmentarian - hashtags himself as antithetical
The following poem crafted
not quite thirty months ago,
when severe bad hair day
found yours truly self sequestered
toying with notion
to coif, primp, and tease, his limp locks,
(whose hirsute trademark...
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Categories:
wring out, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal, fate, feelings, hair,
Form:
Rhyme
The Worst of Humankind - Part 1War used to be some other place
Out of sight and mind;
But now we see on our tv
The worst of humankind.
An army has just marched across
Another country’s border,
Wreaking murder, unprovoked,
And violent disorder.
Are we so blind? We...
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Categories:
wring out, anger, conflict, humanity, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of Agnes BeanFrom ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jail...
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Categories:
wring out, abuse, death, evil, gothic, native american,
Form:
Narrative
A Home They Could Not KnowWhat do the dodgers dodge?
Remind me to lace up my socks,
Put on my boots and be born again.
Trained and ready, steady, go!
An old man’s antlers in the rutt,
Dangling keys riding on hips...
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Categories:
wring out, feelings, giving,
Form:
Narrative
And Then There Was OneWhat do the dodgers dodge?
Remind me to lace up my socks,
Put on my boots and be born again.
Trained and ready, steady, go!
An old man’s antlers in the rutt,
Dangling keys riding on hips...
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Categories:
wring out, conflict, confusion, hate, humanity, judgement, political, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Battle of EvermoreWhen I was just a wee young thing
I was taught life's lesson well
Ere instead of childhood revelry
mine would be a children's hell
...
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Categories:
wring out, child abuse, childhood, father daughter, home, power,
Form:
Bio
Such a Pretty Kitty She IsWorries brought me low
I just wanted to let you know
I heard the feline's purr
I felt her soft, fluffy fur
Heartfelt, pretty kitty
Her love is not itty-bitty
She is absolutely pretty
She loves me and I love her…
And...
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Categories:
wring out, beauty, cat, hope, joy, muse, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Upon ReflectionI'd like to sit beside myself, if only for awhile.
I'd ask me how I do it, how do I always smile.
Id say "Because I have to. There is no other way."
...
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Categories:
wring out, introspection, life, philosophyme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Echoes of His Master's VoicePray,
If you should tell
All that you have bottled up
Who will you tell?
Who will believe you?
Stories of swollen head, slit lips
Blood, brimstone and bonfires
Laboriously ignited to silence
Rats, rabbits, dogs, roaches and mosquitoes
Stories of brazen...
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Categories:
wring out, anti bullying, black african american, future, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Saving of Joel Claughtrey, Part IAt the remote Carmacks trading post,
during eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
a teenage child, a scared-looking half-breed,
timidly entered through the front door.
Joel Claughtrey barely noticed the young man,
and was far more concerned with whiskey,
he took a long...
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Categories:
wring out, adventure, family, father son, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Light(A Long Agonizing Conversion.
Out of the dark forbidding night,
I Struggle now to see the light.
I never felt this way before,
Loved the lair of darkness more.
Was careful in nothing, no good to...
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Categories:
wring out, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Uniquely SoundlessDeep breath
Let it out, carry the blight
...
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Categories:
wring out, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Hurricane Was HarveyThe Hurricane was Harvey
By Franklin Price
8/31/2017
The hurricane was Harvey, what an unassuming name
Left the western Yucatan. across the Gulf he came
Building up his power to a category four
Slammed into the Texas coast with wind, and...
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Categories:
wring out, care, community, hope, inspiration, natural disasters, people,
Form:
Couplet
Crippled RainShe wills it but fears of wanting what she already has
Her beauty is below her, among her. and over her head
Not one but two, nor four but five
Seven more times we get up to save...
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Categories:
wring out, art,
Form:
Ballade