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The Wanderer, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...The Wanderer, Part II

Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves,
the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers,
the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling…

Th...

Categories: retainers, bird, dark, loss, sea,
Form: Free verse

The Wanderer, Part I, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...The Wyrdes were like the Fates, controlling human destinies.

The Wanderer
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
translation by Michael R. Burch

“The one who wanders alone
longs for mercy, longs for grace...

Categories: retainers, death, death of a
Form: Free verse

Humid Thermos

...I see us
cowering within
our safety walls
of sterile
nonorganic comfort

I feel us,
almost smell us,
struggling
vacillating between pungent stink
of fear inside
and acrid
acidic anger
ab...

Categories: retainers, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Against Stupidity

... Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrick Schiller 


We are now used to accept that money
Is our gods, and getting it is pure honey.
I bought a cargo vesse...

Categories: retainers, sea, storm,
Form: Couplet

The Rhyming Poem - Part I

...The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

He who gr...

Categories: retainers, england, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

The Rhyming Poem - Part Ii

...The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

He who grant...

Categories: retainers, england, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Statements

...This world is only flat 
as I could wish for it to be.
All wishes come
from hungry hearts as mine.

Curves I visit 
bring a noise of motion.
Unexpected joy and wonder 
found in every moment
...

Categories: retainers, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Medieval Poems V

...Medieval Poem V

A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never in...

Categories: retainers, earth, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme

Winter Awakens My Care

...Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs a...

Categories: retainers, angst, england, joy, sorrow,
Form: Couplet

Ablaze - Part Four

...[Continued from Part Three]



Thereupon the elder gave them all a single cart.
It was tall and broad with gems adorning every part
and had bells on all four corners plus a balustrade
surround...

Categories: retainers, allusion, destiny, fire, life,
Form: Narrative

Ablaze - Part One

...Once there was an elder who possessed a fortune vast.
He was the proprietor of lands he had amassed,
dwellings and retainers and a mansion huge and wide
but with just a single doorway to depart ou...

Categories: retainers, allusion, desire, destiny, fire,
Form: Narrative

A Deal With the Chief Campaigner

...A Deal with the Chief Campaigner
©2012 C. Brent Cloyd


There was a House Speaker named Boehner
Sought a deal with the chief campaigner 
For budget cuts he did hope
But campaigner said nope
For how w...

Categories: retainers, confusion, political, satire,
Form: Limerick

"retainers To a Broken Faith"(2/17/09)

...fitted to my palate, made to fit, just for me 
based on love to embraces me
told to keep you close and dear~
two (too) late my mother can hear~
she has a bone to pick with the youth of me
now in...

Categories: retainers, caregiving, childhood, daughter, family,
Form: I do not know?