Oeuvres Poems - Poems about Oeuvres

...I am devastated, dumbfounded, dismayed, These people are so stupid, or crazy, They threw some hot soup On a painting by Claude Monet, These people are ridiculous, wicked, Who will listen to them......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break III These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old ha......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break I These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old habi......Read the rest...

...Sonnets LXXI-LXXX Because You Came to Me by Michael R. Burch Because you came to me with sweet compassion and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair, I do not love you after any fashio......Read the rest...

...No Getting Back to Normal, a 9-11 Poem by Michael R. Burch for the survivors of 9-11 Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel; add artificial swee......Read the rest...

...Break Time by Michael R. Burch for those who lost loved ones on 9-11 Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel; add artificial sweeteners to concea......Read the rest...

...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's Final Version " Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" Vowels " (final version, without the definite article, with the poet's corrections) in RIMBAUD Œuvres......Read the rest...

...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's " The Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" The Vowels " in the Paul Verlaine (first version) copy in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris ......Read the rest...

...I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen to the cacophony of voices: dilettantes discussing poetry under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading as avant-garde writers or bona fide critics (black turt......Read the rest...

...Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan Blanches oeuvres ouvertes résident dans les jours la surface du banc de travail est noire les géraniums-lierres les fougères et......Read the rest...

...Tu le fera, n’est-ce pas, Papa ? – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Won’t you, Dad ? » by T. Wignesan Si toutes les jolies mélodies de ce monde eussent été chantées et toutes les chefs d’œuvr......Read the rest...

...DINNER Tonight we’ll dine At a restaurant fine .To order, we’ll start With the French words, Entrée and a la carte. Hors d oeuvres, escargo, Brei and dubonnet. If those mean food, Why......Read the rest...

...Where do we come in in medias res not knowing nor caring when doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw d......Read the rest...

...In an orb of knowledge, walks a colored girl. Her celestial being is ethereal. Abreast is she of her past but fragile to the imminence. Her strides are hindered because once she was poor and her life......Read the rest...

...Ballade : In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade en faveur des dénommés Décadents et Symbolistes for Léon Vanier* (The texts I use for my t......Read the rest...