Claude Monet painting
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, appreciation, culture, rude,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Things That Break Iii
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, break up, farewell, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break I
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, break up, depression, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, desire, grief, loss, love,
Form: Sonnet
No Getting Back To Normal, a 9-11 Poem
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, cheer up, cry, death,
Form: Sonnet
Break Time, a 9-11 Poem
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, america, bereavement, conflict, death,
Form: Sonnet
A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's Final Version Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, analogy, color, sound, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's the Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...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 ...
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Categories:
oeuvres, color, magic, metaphor, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
Literary Circle
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, america, art, creation, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Tu Le Fera, N'Est-Ce Pas, Papa- Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Won'T You, Dad By T Wignesan
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, child, faith, hate, holocaust,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dinner
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, culture, food,
Form: Light Verse
Where Do We Come In
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
An Antiquated Being
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, gender, girl, god, how
Form: Free verse
Ballade: In Favour of Those Called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem
...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...
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Categories:
oeuvres, poetry,
Form: Ballade
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