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Our Cup is Overfull

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                                        Our Cup is Overfull

                           “Our cup is overfull, I can`t bear it,”
                   Words that came out like a blast from the sky
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Medieval Poetry Translations VIII by Michael R Burch

...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
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Medieval Poetry Translations VI by Michael R Burch

...These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and Middle English.

Exeter Book Gnomic Verses or Maxims
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch...

Old Men ii

...If old men fought the wars
Would there be quite so many?
Maybe we’d reach a stage
Where we’d not fight any.
Life becomes more precious
With the passing of years 
The realisation of mortality
B...

Nature's Colour Spectrum

...Across the valley the gentle meadows lay
The lush grass would grow and then become hay
But for now on guard the poppies stood
Their masses formed lakes of deep red blood. 

Battalions of olive t...

Unsolved Criminal Mystery Modest Prevarication

...Unsolved criminal mystery...modest prevarication

Found yours truly
a grateful dead head
convenient scapegoat dejure
Norristown police officers
fingerprinted me for 
casual postal employment
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Some Poems

...A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And...

Bamborough Castle

...my granite face with deeply creviced grief
sees dungeons buried beyond naked eyes;
to traitor's gate where victims sought relief
yet spiked as trophies for all to despise. 

The artist Turner wa...

Damocles Sword Renamed Donald Trump Dagger O' Type

...Emotional guillotine clefts
     irredeemable psychological umbilical accord
witnessing heart breaking,
     woe-begotten inhumane rip cord
gut wrenching shuffle board
     (indiscriminately spo...

Now You See It

...What, then, is a spirit?
Whence the wafting wisp?
And is a thing ethereal really real?

How concrete the conscious?
Does sentience have substance?
Tell me, really, truly, what’s the deal?

“L...

T'Was a Fox Before Christmas Lcfc

...T'was the week before Christmas, as I watched the live stream
I could hardly believe what I could see on my screen.
With Manchester losing to Norwich two one,
We could keep our top spot if we held...

The Destiny

...THE   DESTINY.


This is not a country for living souls
Recoiled the heart lives under the enshades
Of vampire ridden nature and all its pards
On beggarly sums amassed by the pauper
Of bleakne...

Japan, Land of Rising Son

...Japan, land of rising SUN

Faced Natures devastation
Tsunami, earthquake obliterated cities
Lost all but not hope, maturity, sanity

Collective harmony, community first attitude
No honking, no...

Without Looking Within

...In the sea of  swirling dust that is our infinity
Held together by the breath of Divinity
Infinitesimal microdots are we
Yet megalomania rules our see.

Do ants blindly view themselves as lords ...

Letter To the Forgotten

...For those that got left behind,we chase distant shadows of those long gone,we sit and in wait 
for dreams that will probably never return. Holding vigils and keeping sacred rituals for 
stoned hear...

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