Love Panther Poems

Rolling passed where I used to live many years ago,
I saw a white limousine stopping by,
I didn't know what was happening,
but I went there to...

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The black panther is a cutie
The way he struts is a thing of beauty
That sleek black fur makes him hard to see
He can camouflage himself...

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A story had been told about the Great Lakes,                ...

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I
never thought
I
looked like
any sort
of animal.
I
never expected
to be
attached
to one,
but I've once 
been told
I had
a rather distinctive
panther-like gait,
so I suppose...
that is my...
"spirit animal"?

Hey, I'll take it!
No worries.
It...

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Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions....

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INTRODUCTION:  Hold all applause to the end
Erasing all challengers by moon of night.
Mark of the PANTHER with claws lock jaws
Branding its territory with swift...

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