Flower Prison Poems

Smart child can imagine
The obvious wide margin
Between Whore and Virgin,
The young and the Ageing,
Main Language and Pidgin
Birds of Prey and Pigeon 
Human Heart and Engine
Detention...

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Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.

Like brick walls braced against...

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Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch

Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good,...

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contemplating life
youth freedom and the daisy
through old prison bars



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on July 31, 2018...

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A dream of a continuum


Continuous is the continuum.
The never ending story.
Oblivious to oblivion’s din,
Because I cannot believe in fables about former glories.
A lack of faith...

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 I was so happy
A free spirit
A flower child.

Then, you took me captive
Called me as your own
And forced me to drink from the well of...

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frigid beauty
in brittle showcases -
butterflies sulk


(joined - 03/27/2013)...

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Last Call
	
	This is where I feel at ease. Senses heightened subtly by the mixture of light and darkness. The night time lights; bar lights, street...

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Could you be surrounded by a million faces,
Yet see nothing, just masses and beams?
Watch them laugh, smile and be, from the shadows.
While you cringe with...

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Sambissar

Our souls dampen
with torture
And hopes dash in a
hurry
Like northern
watermelons
Crushed by a hundred
thousand cattle.
Our hearts beat in
fear louder than a
drum,
Louder than the
fierce noise of an
enraged mob...

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