Unendurable Poems - Poems about Unendurable

...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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..."If we allow a deranged mind to control the course of human destiny, then we become executioners in the annihilation of human dignity" -by ......

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...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......

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

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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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