Memory
...What is about to change is likely to get worse
A memory that lasts too long will be
Considered wrong and dangerous resource
But the restrictions taken won’t relate to me
How fine that we have no ...
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Categories:
worthiest, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part III, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
...Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part III
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I was also with Eormanric for many years,
as long as the Goth-King availed me we...
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Categories:
worthiest, poems, poetry, poets, travel,
Form: Free verse
Love One Another
...Saddest of love’s stories, one leaving another.
Whether with a reason, or with no choice in the matter.
Worthiest of love’s patience, one holding onto the other.
Whether close together, or far ...
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Categories:
worthiest, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Gift of Being
...With trepidation, loneliness, and fear,
I called to you
And you lived pristinely
You lived in my heart
I heard their mystical, sage voices cry out
“The one you seek is coming,
Oh so soon is...
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Categories:
worthiest, appreciation, creation, loneliness, longing,
Form: Ode
The Soul Hears the Secrets In the Trees
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I feel you in the trees that, dance in the wind.
I hear you whisper, in their leaves.
Encrypted secrets shared, with we who listen, with our soul.
From my soul to your soul;
unzipp...
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Categories:
worthiest, environment, nature, tree,
Form: Tritina
To Question Existence
...Isn't our quality of life greatly subject to how we view our world and what happens in it?
I heard someone say recently, (and I agree), that nature is one of the most beautiful things we are bless...
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Categories:
worthiest, appreciation, beauty, earth, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Voiceless
...Mother taught me to not kill,
Her holy book forbids it.
Written somewhere in its many pages is
"Killing is the wickedest biblical sin."
My mind holds me prisoner,
A self-judged convict-
For I h...
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Categories:
worthiest, africa, corruption, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxii Part1
...If my rhymes rugged and clucking might be
As it would better fit to wretched hole
Above which are pointing all rocks to see,
I would express my concept as a whole
More clearly; but since I do n...
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Categories:
worthiest, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
The Sands of Time
...THE SANDS OF TIME
Silent, creepy, mysterious as its tick,
The worthiest choice, if offered a pick,
‘Tis often mentioned of many a tricky blighter,
But there’s this on...
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Categories:
worthiest, irony, time,
Form: ABC
Rhythm and Rhymn
...Rhythm and Rhyme
My heart begins to melt.
I remember what I feel and how I've felt.
Being brave is something everyone knows they crave.
Holding their own starts in a realm, foreign and unknow...
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Categories:
worthiest, life, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
West In Our Hearts
...That was the worthiest step and decision
our pressing to US for its airbase in Manas expelling
from our land. The politic so vexed
so self-destructive and depressive
from various points and c...
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Categories:
worthiest, political,
Form: Elegy
The Perfect Christmas Gift
...Busy streets and shopping spree.
People were so naive of what gift to give.
Is it fancy bags or jewelries?
A huge toys or high end gadgets?
Everything that's worth and the best.
The best of the...
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Categories:
worthiest, christmas, love, peace,
Form: Light Verse
The Tragic Games Between Rulers and People
...Look for this tragic dilemma:
either people have reached the real powers
and handled the weal of engine
or government done the same
wiped people completely out
from ruling, managing and ...
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Categories:
worthiest, political,
Form: Verse
Old Glory Knights Full Version Part I
...We the redeemed were sitting together amongst a celestial
crowd whom had gathered outside the front of the main castle.
Pavilions had been set up, benches had been erected
for the massive crowds ...
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Categories:
worthiest, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Squid, Yours Blue Majesty
...The extraterrestrial guest and sovereign of blue bloods
and son of the most reverent ancient tribe and octopus’s cousin
you have been setting on emperor’s throne
from early Silur
in yours great ocea...
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Categories:
worthiest, nature, planet, universe,
Form: Ode
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