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Touch Me Not Poems - Poems about Touch Me Not

Sir Thomas Wyatt Translations 1
...SIR THOMAS WYATT TRANSLATIONS 1 Whoso List to Hunt ("Whoever Longs to Hunt") by Sir Thomas Wyatt loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch Whoever longs to hunt, I kn......

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Categories: touch me not, grief, heart, love, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreams Within Dreams
...My eyeballs move as though witnessing scenes within eyelids. Face, just like obeying commands of some far-off spirits, skids Heaven, with the triune god and the angels illumine I cross the boundar......

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Categories: touch me not, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme



Chaucer Translation: Welcome Summer
...Welcome, Summer by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Now welcome, Summer, with your sun so soft, since you’ve banished Winter with her icy weather and drive......

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Categories: touch me not, heaven, sky, song, summer,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member feeling alive
...breathing the cool breeze birds sing joy-filled melodies --- blossoms ballet-dance waking from its sleep touch-me-not smiles at tall trees --- nostalgic leaves nod ......

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Categories: touch me not, nature, wind,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Floating Figure
...Seraph in señora form She moves. Nay, floats Across opulent floors... Swaying Strolling Sauntering Her unnoticed, untouched outfit touching touch-me-not touch Her crystal topaz physique.... ......

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Categories: touch me not, beauty, life, woman,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sundrops
...Perennially, like the angels, bloom with a bright smile Like the sun, radiant with perpetual light and life Ever youthful, and like the goddess Dyana, fruitful How slimly and sternly you are held ......

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Categories: touch me not, flower, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Through whispers that furrow the silence, the cursing horn sounds
...Through whispers that furrow the silence, the cursing horn sounds, Over plains of shadow the dusk of night descends all around. Hyperion of night glows with embers beneath lids of silver light, In......

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Categories: touch me not, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Controversy
...touch me not I said you touched me, yet, so wildly --- I am shrunk today 20 July 2023......

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Categories: touch me not, life, love,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Death of a Loved One
...Death of a loved one Fifty-five years! More or less! I did not know, then, How, to your adieu, o mother, I said Amen; Later, like the ache of an amputated limb, Existence, like a gloom-glaring ......

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Categories: touch me not, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fear and Fear
...As touch-me-not shrinks of threats, fear, to our mind, warning brings, Fear is not always defeatist; it has prophetic rings; Fear has been, from ancient past, part of human unfolding, Has been fun......

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Categories: touch me not, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets C-Civ
...“Whoso List to Hunt” is a famous early English sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) in the mid-16th century. Whoever Longs to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt loose translation/interpretation......

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Categories: touch me not, animal, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Springtime Villanelle
...Rays of golden sun, at orange dawn, I enjoy...! I wake up, hearing chirps of birds at four O’ clock; At fifties! Yet, I feel, as though a little boy...! The earth and the heavens celebrate sprin......

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Categories: touch me not, seasons, spring,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Being a Light To Others
...Fear, caused by mere inferiority complex, Puts, in many relationships, abundant checks; Like touch-me-not, faces shrink, all at a sudden, As though, the entire universe, on me, fallen...! Supe......

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Categories: touch me not, humanity, life, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring Arrives
...Petals seem to perspire; pearls of crystal dew drops glare Sun rays, finding them hurdle in kissing each flower Dries them off mercilessly; falls on flowers naked Shyness spread wings; touch-me-no......

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Categories: touch me not, creation, flower, life, nature,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Sun In Moods
...spending sleepless night extends his soft dawning touch ~ wakes up the lotus chill charm cloud maidens sing dance hold beauty parades ~ his angry shades torch scorches many buds failing t......

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Categories: touch me not, imagery, metaphor, nature, satire,
Form: Haiku

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