My Eternal Knight
...The sun rises on silky dunes that look like breasts.
You are lost in the desert,
The air is dry and sandy residue explores your crevices.
Peripatetic genetrix,
Protector of sublime gifts passed ...
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Categories:
votary, appreciation, birth, celebration, child,
Form: Rhyme
I loathe to turn last page of life
...I
Old Age, let me not be a fugitive,
Renegade, nor an earnest votary,
Yet, when ye arrive on one unknown eve,
Let no stray doubts dwell on my loyalty.
If youth’s relished, leaves a lifelong f...
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Categories:
votary, age, old,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Brownian Motion Writ Large
...Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuron...
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Categories:
votary, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To Harry Horsman
...(Inspired by Harry’s poems- The Old Oak Tree, Oh them hot air balloons, Death is Not the End and An Agendaless Age)
I have known Harry barely two years back
Yet I felt a strange rapport wit...
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Categories:
votary, appreciation, death of a
Form: Free verse
Lady Fall
...O candles lit my temples all
My gloomy gloomy darkish ways
In beechen green I can not see
The starry blooms, The heaven's fays
O Thou votary of the lakes
Votary of the clouds that float
They ...
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Categories:
votary, age, art, autumn, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My Heart
...Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”)
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town;
Heavy languor and dark
Dr...
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Categories:
votary, french, hate, heart, love,
Form: Verse
Earth's Oldest Love Poem
...The Love Song Of Shu-Sin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Darling of my heart, my belovéd,
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey.
Darling of my heart, my belovéd,...
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Categories:
votary, desire, love, lust, sin,
Form: Verse
Dance For Dionysus
...Tanka/ Haiku
Dionysian’s
Drunken Roman Bacchante (1) footnotes
God of the Maenads' (2)
Female appreciation
Tainted murderous servants
Maniacal twist
Hold each- a sensuous kiss
Trained not by hub...
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Categories:
votary, faith, mystery, religion, mythology,
Form: Tanka