Time Panther Poems

Hush hush busy muskrat;
all you bucktoothed beavers
gnaw on unheard, work you unseen.

The sleek panther is stalking
slipping silently through the feathergrass
an angel of hunger is in...

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

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Fair beast, brighter than the sun,
My gentle and fierce protector
Ancient in myth, afraid of none
Whose sweet roar, a soul collector

Your power's unmatched, an enigma in...

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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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There was a fire in the sky,
The day Tecumseh fell.
No white man could deny,
They would know his cursed spell.

There was thunder in the spirit realm,
That...

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Mosiac Black Panther

There is a mosiac black panther caged in my warm breast
Does what's his name even have a clue there's a yearning in my...

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You are a beautiful and totally magnificent creature
You haunt my dreams and set my heart pounding
I want to reach out, Oh how I so long...

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