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Hesiod: Ares translation by Michael R Burch

...Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, cou...

Love VI

... Fervent  rainbows vow to deck
 a gloomy, woeful moon 
with merriness and blissfulness.
 Whispered dreams of virtue
triumph over a murky ,
desultory  brook.
The serene , meandrous 
butterf...

The Sands of Time

...

                                           The Sands of Time

                                The sands of time move on and on
                                     Without respite, without a l...

Whispers of Butterfly

...Ah! red butterfly, with your
        , glorious, majestic
         wings flying around the
         refulgent, fearless creek .
   And a green bird is adorned with
 ecstatic , blue aroma.
O...

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

...Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces ...

A Cowboy’s Heart

...We’re all so young even the ‘old hands’
Can’t imagine a time with no rope in their hand
 
It’s riding with heart and unflagging spirit revealed
That’s a fitting description of what’s usually conc...

Lonely Poet

...His thoughts sun-drenched tears.

                 His bloody pen his whole life.
             His motive is always unrequited
                     love to all.
                    he has no ult...

Shattered Dreams

...      Crumbly candles are so stormy,
                     so ferocious, and so wounding.    
                    The catastrophic , lilliputian fire
                      is fed with the silen...

THE AFRICAN WILD DOG

...Donning sable spots on buff hearts:
With all the resolve an’ brutality 
They pursue their prey;
Stopping at nothing but the 
Quarry’s final gasp for a breath 

They’re the pillaging African wil...

The triumphant footpath

...
                  Strides along the lonely road fearlessly   
                       the foredoomed lily groans with pain needlessly.
                       We gaze at the dazzling
         ...

Knotty

..."Serene is the green of the sculptured knotty pine, arms uniquely reach and none the same, with woody scent of heaven." Quote by poet

Knotty pine enfold in the sate gold sun 
stands s...

Hyperbolic Quasi Autobiographical Prevarication

...Hyperbolic quasi autobiographical prevarication...
caricature sketch of person best known to yours truly

What began as an honest 
to goodness attempt 
to craft personal truthful profile
evolve...

Summoning Light

...over occupied world
bewildering hodge-podge of people
pushing stress where it ought not to be

in the slim rays of late day
in the splattered mess of guttered streets
a homeless man asks for a ...

Sneaking a President To Kyiv

...Sneaking A President On Presidents Day

Sneaking President Biden to Kyiv without anyone noticing, sounds like something out of a movie.  It really happened.  He arrived in Kyiv on a surprise visit,...

Grand Welcome

...busy bumblebee
                                  budging the baby blossoms ...
                                       bathed in yellow dust


                                  high pitched buzzi...

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