Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch
...Habit is Heaven's tame redress:
it tugs down the skirts of Happiness.
—Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch
Till, conquered by gusts of cold air,
as Winter approaches, I find,
on...
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Categories:
tamp down, dream, heaven, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Pity the Shovel that Buries the Earth
...Beneath a callused skin of light
the hunched and mustered
clap a prayer between a leaking sight.
It is the earth that mourns itself,
whether baldly thrown or loamy laid
the silent soil repaint...
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Categories:
tamp down, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ah To Reminisce
...Ah, to reminisce,
to peer through rose colored glasses
smooth the edges of
pointed encounters
tamp down the burning
embers of memory
smoldering in silent seclusion.
To change the tone
texture...
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Categories:
tamp down, life, memory, perspective,
Form: Free verse
My Certain Courage
...The day of courage has come, I'll tamp down our rage,
Take studies in strides as I re-new Truth's defense,
Steady the chapters, the verses of pen and page,
Embrace the tabled periods, make joyful ...
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Categories:
tamp down, confidence, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Ignominious Cult Leader Best Kept Locked Up
...Our unhinged president,
(a veritable loathsome miscreant)
cannot get away with murder,
nor will mine paltry poetic
(side winding) gambit
help clinch deserved punishment
for leader of free world...
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Categories:
tamp down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
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A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !
Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
Anyone can ‘make it’
Never more than aspirational
Structu...
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Categories:
tamp down, conflict, corruption, leadership, power,
Form: Free verse
Rebounding With Energy After Midnight
...Methinks resurgence of wakefulness
after bewitching hour i.e. midnight
quickly dissipating before dawn
quasi baptism regarding
preternatural soulful immersion
amidst spiritus mundi
foretaste ...
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Categories:
tamp down, allusion, atheist, baptism, crazy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Forsaken the Lark
...Flight songs have forsaken the lark,
where flood and fire forage the dark.
From coast to coast our prayer on wings.
O Lord have mercy the choir sings.
Firefighters on lawn, brave and tired.
Nu...
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Categories:
tamp down, christian, fire, hero,
Form: Kyrielle
The Fire Inside
...THE FIRE INSIDE
I have to tamp down
the fire inside
for not all are stoked
with flaming eyes
my cheeriness
might be their demise
the fire inside
explosive it drives
the quiet...
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Categories:
tamp down, happiness,
Form: Free verse
My Planters
...Each year when the summer is nigh
I drag out my planters and buy
Some flowers to plant
But somehow I can't
Make them grow, though I really do try.
I gently tamp down all the soil.
W...
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Categories:
tamp down, me, nature,
Form: Limerick
The Raving
...From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.
Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who persist to query me on matters they know I mu...
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Categories:
tamp down, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form: Narrative
Counter Culture
...Today's closing hangs lower than it did yesterday,
trying to mess with tomorrow's dreams.
Sitting here, dressed in a wry smile, my heart
whispers to a sky, tie-dyed with the jewel
of Navaho...
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Categories:
tamp down, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse