Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch
...Habit is Heaven's tame redress:
it tugs down the skirts of Happiness.
—Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch
Till, conquered by gusts of cold air,
as Winter approaches, I find,
on...
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Categories:
obscurities, dream, heaven, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Descent into Darkness
...Obscurities of one's fractured mind
Patterns of destructive, haunting thoughts
The ones that shatter all sanity
And contaminate one's mortal soul
I suppose it is time, finally
I so des...
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Categories:
obscurities, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Driving in New Mexico
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the terrain’s more expansive here
you said, as if obscurities that had been,
moved aside so the eye
could soak in highways singing
restless blues, as if language
materialized straigh...
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Categories:
obscurities, america, language,
Form: Free verse
Light of Lights
...Light throbbing in the heart of darkness
Shakes its density and solidity
Dawn lengthening towards morning
Mops up darkness slowly
Shadows vanish
In its brightness
It rubs them off the bodie...
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Categories:
obscurities, light, prayer, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Pearls
...Suffering sautées souls
Peeling away the impurities
Revealing the obscurities
Redeeming even polishing
Character like a crystal
Creating out of clay
A great new display
Despite mud of former...
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Categories:
obscurities, appreciation, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Raindrops
...As the sky weeps
in periwinkle petals of
multicolored roses,
rinsed in lemons, and lavender,
the poet within me
releases a bougainvillea
bouquet of unfiltered gratitude,
swaying to th...
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Categories:
obscurities, angel,
Form: Free verse
Neverland
...I was in a perfect gallery,
My journey could have been more weary.
I was on a trip full of unknown necessities,
I collected dirty obscurities.
I used to run the errands,
Massacre was another ...
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Categories:
obscurities, desire, in memoriam, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
A Soul Divine
...A candle burns deep, in core of every soul,
A sacred flame, an ethereal halo of intellect,
A guide heavenly, a mystique that educates,
Defying overtures of egotism and pettiness,
A beacon of wi...
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Categories:
obscurities, inspirational, peace, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Second Chances
...If it's your purpose Father I will continue to wait patiently at times
I can't be still for your will for me will be done in your timing not
mines. When i tried to things...
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Categories:
obscurities, angel, appreciation, care, character,
Form: Bio
My World of Dreams
...In this world of obscurities
Of living ghosts
lost in chimeras
Of impossible dreams
We don't understand the magic
of a dawn
Happiness that can only be felt
With pure childhood eyes
I dream my...
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Categories:
obscurities, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Obscurities
...One has trampled down many roads and greeted many detours and obstacles only attempt was to release and escape these webs of obscurities lured into it’s web and was transposed in many directions so b...
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Categories:
obscurities, adventure, anxiety, confidence, conflict,
Form: Ode
Divine Poetry
...Divine instrument, is poetry
and only poetry with her magic vision,
who describes
the indescribable,
defines the indefinable,
exults the verisimilitude
of the simple, because
exceeds any limit...
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Categories:
obscurities, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Light Verse
Assessment a Sigh of Relief
...The yellow scraps perform a thrill during fierce storms.
The breeze turbine is a lofty pattern within local farms.
Amazed, I can spot concussive impacts in the wet stones.
Bursti...
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Categories:
obscurities, analogy, appreciation, autumn, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Obscurities
...*Image of Owl Grass Mouse Predator by Pixabay.
obscurities
darkness blinks afar
inert rug fronds made alive
plumes confuse stillness
2021 October 15...
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Categories:
obscurities, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
Not of This Earth
...*Image of Child Sad Suffering provided by Pixabay.
Not Of This Earth
Poetic Form: Narrative
Asymmetric mistrals warp speckled vaporous pallidness toward rhythmless voids. Obv...
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Categories:
obscurities, dark, death, earth, scary,
Form: Narrative
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