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Future At Stake

...I'm using this poem to explain,
How it is, I personally feel,
Living in this modern world today,
Speaking my truth, raw and real.

Even at my age I've seen,
Such a devastating amount of change,...

STRONGER THAN YOU THINK

...Oh, my, unexpected foe, “when you read my poems 
you wrongly judged me, and in a demeaning tone
shouted, “Do you ever write poems that are not sad?”

Dear disguised friend, you had me defending w...

SNEAKY SLIMY SLITHERING SERPENTY SNAKE

...The sneaky, slimy, slithering, squirming snake silently sat shamefully,
Stupendously-stumped.

The seated, sizzling, sneaky, slimy, slithering serpent still stupendously-stumped,
Squirmed slowly ...

Nostalgia

...

                                 colicky shadows
                                      sad mimes 
                                            time wanders 
                                    ...

On the plain of oblivion, where dreams lose their color under the leaden sky

...On the plain of oblivion, where dreams lose their color under the leaden sky,
Our country stretches like a canvas of memories unraveling in the wind,
Here, where politicians are the shadows of exti...

Little Girl

...LITTLE GIRL


THROUGH THE RIVERS OF GANGES 
BY THE VILLAGES FAR FROM CITIES CROSSING MILES AND MILES
NO ONE HEARS LITTLE GIRL'S SINGLE LITTLE CRY 
BY THE HEART OF THAT MOTEHR WHO VOICE IS SHUT ...

Sulpicia Translations 2 by Michael R Burch

...These are English translations by of Latin poems written by the ancient Roman female poet Sulpicia.



V. Reproach for Indifference
by Sulpicia
translation by Michael R. Burch

Have you no ki...

only in death are we seen for who we truly are

...-To all those who died believing they were failures

Madman, fool, fraud, disgrace:
Curse your insolent mind and set alight your life’s work— 

Forget about happiness; forget about fame...

The Person I Use To Be-Want To Be Contest

...I was quite sweet before the trauma of rape
Afterwards I was no chocolate cake
I was shamefully terrible in temper
Took my issues with men out on them
Having them fall in love with me
Was like a...

When Democracy Almost Died

...The faith in our Democracy
Was almost lost most shamefully,
When losers made their foolish claims
And railed against imagined blames.

The lap dog trogs obeyed the call
To challenge what was cl...

Smothering Gloria given Privileges

...Feathers sparkled lustrous leaves
crowded in a blisterful branch
glazed pink lusted sprinkling waves
smothered a idyllic luxury
Blizzard armies of service
strategically polished in s...

Truce

...Are you also truly, undoubtedly, deeply in love with me?
Or is it all purely, shamefully one big ruse?
Are you and I ever going to call upon a truce?...

Just A Girl

...
She's not yet a pre-teen.
She is Herself everyday. 
She has no idea that anyone could hate her 
or think she is bad. 
She loves how strong she is
 and shows off her muscles proudly.
She loves...

holly day in May

...A Holly Day in May

the building is eerily empty today, everybody
has gone to the beach, even those in wheelchairs
I sit on the verandah in the hope of tanning
my scalp looks so white in the bat...

believe me

...if I lie, will you believe me?
what if I don't, will you believe me?
what must I do for you to believe me?
what must I say for you to believe me?

what do you believe?
what you see or what you ...

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