Rain Nightingale Poems

Empty streets,
Naked trees,
Flowers,
Sighing,
In rhe chill autumn breeze,
With some gypsy ladies,
Dancing a salsa dance,
In a field of sunfliowers,
Surreal waves,
With windswept kisses,
Empty canvases,
And benches,
Waiting to be filled,
With...

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Poems for Poets VII



Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch

(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)

Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be...

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ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH



Excerpt from Rumuz-e bikhudi (“The Mysteries of Selflessness”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like a candle...

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Let me dedicate this poem to Richard Lamoureux who took time to read my poems and left lovely comments.


There is a Nightingale outside my window
Sitting...

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I'm standing here still, where the sweat of my soul fell__
knee deep in the blood... of our wishing well
Right back here where our troubles began.
where...

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A rhapsody of
rock and roll rain,
tango twisting winds,
samba snow flakes, 
step, skip, 
spin and swing.

So the subdued sun 
remains solemnly shy 
as its orchestra of...

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My heart
Like a dying nightingale,
Seaks your company,
Either in doleful silence
Of twilit evenings,
Or enfolded in joys of endless love,
Of your warm and gentle arms.

And it pipes...

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Sing, my nightingale, sing for me again
Sing from your bramble tree
Sing, my nightingale, sing and it will rain
Earth is melancholy
And brown, brown, brown, the frost
Has...

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