Medieval Poetry Translations VIII by Michael R Burch
...These are English translations of Medieval poems written in Old English.
The Battle of Maldon
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 991 AD or later
translation by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
unbridle, conflict, confusion, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Medieval Poetry Translations VI by Michael R Burch
...These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and Middle English.
Exeter Book Gnomic Verses or Maxims
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch...
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Categories:
unbridle, fish, husband, love, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Time Won't Wait
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Unbridle your cluttered mind
Keeping your nose to the grind
Focus on the task at hand
Draw your line in the sand
Shake the dust off dreams and goals
Make things happen as drum rolls
Time is...
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Categories:
unbridle, dream, hope, life, motivation,
Form: Quatrain
Wildfire
...Deep love within the heart
Ignite luscious flames aglow.
Spreads vast with just a spark,
Desires down below.
Keenly tantalizing,
Flawless colors and hue;
Unbridle free flying,
Loose reign whil...
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Categories:
unbridle, love,
Form: Free verse
The Roses In the Crumble
...I had run out of all the chocolate
Felt bore and wanted a pomegranate
Looked for in the fridge but didn't get
Further darkened the gray climate
Went out just for a little fresh air
Met the swi...
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Categories:
unbridle, desire, love, moon, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom I Seek
...Lord,
freedom I seek in life.
Freedom from religious war,
Freedom from self centered restlessness,
Freedom from self destruction within,
Freedom from spiritual deadness,
From guilt, discipline...
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Categories:
unbridle, africa, art,
Form: Blank verse
A Sighing Woman
...In the night,
when a shattered moonbeam
fell on the earth piece by piece
and scatter all over on the deserted plain,
a woman lived many and long years of pitiful life
went like dew on the grass...
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Categories:
unbridle, anxiety, sad, woman,
Form: Free verse
? - Finding True Love - ?
...True love - In him was the breath of life given, now the Creator Greatest creation (man)
asorb's the life of a human being. Being, from the image of an Omnipotent (GOD) from above.
Real passion - ...
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Categories:
unbridle, art, black african american,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Lady Maricarmen, So Shall It Be
...LONG LONG AGO. I JOURNIED TO THE VILLA OF TAFT. TO MY SURPRISED, I BEHELD
THIS PERPETUATING SIGHT. SHE HAD LONG SILKY DEEP BROWN LOCKS, THAT SURELY,
REVEALED HER NOBILITY.
SHE WAS THIS RADIAN...
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Categories:
unbridle, adventureme, me, smile, time,
Form: Romanticism
Fear V/S Dream
...What is it that I fear? when things are bright clear
Maybe dreams those so dear; fail to come near
Dream akin to concubine; Shy on eyes wide open
Will ever be mine; like crown on head shi...
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Categories:
unbridle, inspirationalfear,
Form: I do not know?
Dangerous Roads
...Dangerous roads due to dangerous curves,
Like dangerous women, they make me swerve.
I steer to the left and steer to the right
Making it dangerous this dark, rainy night.
But, is it a road to whi...
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Categories:
unbridle, hope, inspirational, visionary,
Form: Couplet
The End...
...This could be pain, this could be suffering. But it's not.
Taken from the darkness from which a home was made.
Thrown to the light, thrown into judgment, unknown.
An unbridle love, grown imm...
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Categories:
unbridle, death, introspection, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?