Escapism
...Foundation.
If you could escape this world, would you take that risk?
Escapism
As if cursed by the son of perdition
As I go about my new life's mission to gain admission to her realm
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Categories:
schiller, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Once again, yours truly takes poetic license
...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.
Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby...
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Categories:
schiller, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Joy
...Suddenly I’m walking on my own path
and hear Beethoven's Ode to Joy
as sunlight breaks through the clouds
My own path that under
all the busyness I just didn't see,
I’d been treading it fo...
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Categories:
schiller, joy,
Form: Free verse
Goethe and Schiller translations
...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller.....
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Categories:
schiller, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
schiller, sea, storm,
Form: Couplet
On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe
...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading s...
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Categories:
schiller, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse
No Mark
...No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
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Categories:
schiller, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
The Great Writer's Fate, Part I
...My name is Bedford Schiller-Smith,
and you’ve probably seen it before
on the book racks in airport shops,
usually just inside the doors.
I’ve made a career of writing,
tech and spy thrillers a...
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Categories:
schiller, art, celebrity, family, father,
Form: Narrative
How It Strikes a Contemporary
...(On 28 June 1914, in the Balkan town of Sarajevo,
an attempt to assassinate a royal Austrian duke
failed miserably ... or did it? Gabriel Princips, one
of the plotters, stopped for a coffee and b...
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Categories:
schiller, history,
Form: Blank verse
Gems of Love
...Bright stars shine in night skies
Like bangles, baubles and beads
Puts a twinkle in every girl's eyes
Like a gift of fine jewelry
A pair of sun stone earrings
Presented to the daughter I love
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Categories:
schiller, father daughter, i love
Form: Rhyme
Made In Neonazia
...Made in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attrac...
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Categories:
schiller, evil,
Form: Free verse