God Roses Are Red Poems

The souls love dreams  a story  to awake in wonder in the morning the soul had its way and told this that presented...

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Rosé are Red Violets are blue big time true?
                ...

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Happy

You make me laugh, 
all the time. 
You make me smile 
when I don't want to.
You make me say things, 
that I never thought I...

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The Cat

It is late, 
nearly half-past nine. 
You are asleep beside me.
The clock on the wall is too loud. 
I need to buy another. 
This...

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Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch

These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...



briefling
by Michael R. Burch

manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then,...

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Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100...

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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart and made it a hundred...

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“Jesus, the name that charms our fears
that bids our sorrows cease.”
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing lyrics by Charles Wesley, 
music by Carl Glazier.
...

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Puzzles in Pink

Yesterday is just a dream. 
I took you everywhere, 
but you... do not remember. 

My little one, 
you cried and cried. 

We went...

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Just Strands of Straw

I look into the mirror, 
my hair has dropped to the sink. 
It is a trail of tears, 
years of taking care...

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ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH



Excerpt from Rumuz-e bikhudi (“The Mysteries of Selflessness”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like a candle...

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I have a dream that our great country NIGERIA
Would be one where the rights of women are respected
One where youths with visions are the lawmakers
One...

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HOLY ROSES

Planted by the stream;
Made so beautiful
For everyone to see
And I thank God
For growing them
Those holy roses
Below His shoulders
Fragrant jubilee
Multicolored, rainbow
I till the garden, tend...

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Love is a form of a seed
from high above,
Heaven

In the veins of men it flows
In the heart of men it grows

Impossible for it to germinate
in...

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Love story of Boy friend & Girl Friend :
Once a Girl friend & Boy Friend Love each other in extremes.
They want to live their whole...

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