Undistinguished Poems - Poems about Undistinguished

The Ebbtide

...
And now the ebb tide flows,
The end of all intentions,
Hopes and energies
Exhausted in submission to a greater power.
Terms are struck
And life relinquished
To subside in age
And reminiscenc...

Bad Nation

...I’m living dead, I’m a bad nation
As bad as you like to percieve
The easiest for condemnation
En masse, so maybe I’m not me
Because I’m always undistinguished
I am a crowd you ignore
All person...

Coombe Hill

...We were crossing the green field  
Picking up the wild flowers
We drank the cheap wine
Spoke most beautiful words
Once there on a Coombe Hill
We were walking for hours
And our lives seemed so f...

The Language of the Undone

...


“The Language of the Undone”

I prefer 
them 
over humans
those velvet souls 

loving 
the lesser 
parts of me 
always

more than anyone 
else cares to admit 
...

Undistinguished

...How on earth we’ve come to this?
You can sanction me for breathing
If I want a good night kiss
And you cannot wait for leaving
“We’re responsible for those
Whom we tame”, do you agree?
You take...

Immortal Sappho

...These are my modern English translations/interpretations of ancient Greek poems by the immortal Sappho of Lesbos…

With my two small arms, how can I
think to encircle the sky?
—Sappho, fragment 3...

The Stone

...The stone that felled the Philistine
Was just a common river stone, 
Worn smooth by the waters of the Jordan 
Over years of being eroded and diminished,
Weathering the turbulence of existence
Wi...

The Feathered Owl Man and His Social Theories

...Can he dance for do you move heterogeneous. clam chowder to be ingested can you guess his name. Undistinguished gentlemen ferocious and insane. Currently the much wise sagacious yeti  who devolution ...

Sappho Translations I

...Sappho Translations I

Sappho, fragment 132 (Lobel-Page 132)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
I have a delightful daughter
fairer than the fairest flowers, Cleis,
whom...

Distorted Rose

...distorted rose in yellow vase
how dare you chastise me 
sure I wilted and lost my integrity
but look at you my withered beast

three d was the olden days my friend
we are mere shells of our vib...

Collaboration With the Silent One

...Amongst scribble crayoned clouds and an autumn sun,
Honey butter, pure and innocent flow as one.
Tiny undistinguished flickering candlelight
Losing itself in serenity of the dim sky's sight.
Fadi...

New Year's Recycling Journey

...Stepping into a new year,
especially one calling for 20/20 revision
reform
not retribution for anger's past
but restoration of WinLeft/WinRight bicameral sanctuary,

Stepping into a new ZeroZon...

Sing, Lyre: Sappho Translation

...Sappho, fragment 118
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre;
come, let my words
accompany your voice.

"Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is appare...

You'Ve Left

...~ You've left ~

   
   You've left
The house is lonely
   You've left
Our home is bereft

   You're gone
The good is now bad
   You're gone
Our lives are now sad

Your Love is missing
...

Sappho Translations

...Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch 

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