Unendurable Poems

Sorry, no! I don't want to go gentle into that good night

...Sorry, no! I don't want to go gentle into that good night!
I'm not up for a long, unendurable, end-of-life fight.
When it's my time, I'll opt for a quick, euthanistic squirt,
so I'll feel only a t...

No Longer Yet Forever

...How can a mere mortal poet
Ever truly capture
In mere mortal words
The true nature of love?
How to describe the sensations
That go whirling through the funnel
Of one's being like a vortex,
Or ...

Rice Farmers Decide To Be Rude

...A knee-Imprisoning Marsh 
And Labor-Demanding Field;
Not agriculturally harsh
But planters forcing to fitness wield …

Rice farmers decide to be rude,
A hundred in an ugly mood.
“Blast Mr. Pre...

Dejection

..."If we allow a deranged mind to control the course of human destiny,

         then we become executioners in the annihilation of human dignity"

                                             -by ...

Mushrooming Private Churches In Aba

...Close to a scandalous ten thousand,
A reproach to the late Reverend Townsend;
All with their advertising megaphones,
And big dreams-nursing microphones …

In my town of domicile
With odds one c...

Still Solitude

...STILL SOLITUDE 
                                                    
          I feel sick in still solitude.
                Dull depressed days in delirium.
          Compulsive confinement in ...

Poems About Icarus

...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...

Insults

...Utterances offering the wrong ideas
Like murder-planning spears:
To their recipient an enough sting
But to the source songs to freely sing

The seventy-two teeth of crocodile,
Together jammed a...

The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan

...English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me to lie in the ...

When

...Does your heart ever ache?
When,

you realise unavailing efforts make you drain.
you see how helpless you are in pain.

you think there is no escape but death .
you realise death is not an esc...

The Lone Veteran

...Visions unendurable
Thoughts not erasable
Tracers of red
Running through my heard

Yellow smoke for the dust off
Brings tears
Death and destruction
Memories of loss

Haunting images
Ghosts...

Fadwa Tuqan Translations

...Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.



Enough for Me
by Fadw...

When the Loss Is Ineffable

...When the Loss is Ineffable!
By Jean Bosco SIBOMANA

Win-lose game occurs in many situations
And bargainers made it a standard saying
When involved in various negotiations
To come up with a comm...

Inged

...Ing/ed

He was:
timed

lying down
waiting
braving it, the pain, invincible
grimacing
sweating
hedging-his bets
not panicking-yet
pacing
gasping
falling
still
breathless
void
stopped...

The Victim

...5/10/13
I’m the victim…
Are you the predator?
I feel hurt – 
I am oversensitive
I am an unstable table
The pain’s TOO unbearable
Intolerable… 
Unendurable…
Am I your bull’s eye? 
Are you the strong, ...

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