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    RECURRENT EVENTS OF THE WORLD

     

    They already say - not only the wiser ones - if they still exist here on this Earth, that we will surely fall a lot, my friends! Even Existence will become more and more expensive, and as soon as one or the other willful moles-mums are kicked out of good-sounding jobs, where it is exceptionally not necessary to work thirty-six hours straight, the state of permanent-total weightlessness will still be in half of our lives, if it happens.

    It's as if the external and internal gravity has completely disappeared, since deeper psychological and subconscious forces are at work there, even if anyone has any conscience left to do it. Because those who already step inside, they wander by themselves looking for a way out through a life left behind.

    It is no longer possible for the creative person to simply put his head down to creative, feasible ideas, since the so-called about filthy-dirty financial sources, sponsors, and producers who, with little brai...

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    Jessamyn's Song by Michael R. Burch

    “Jessamyn’s Song” is an early poem of mine that I started around age 14 and was substantially complete by age 16. 
    
    
    
    Jessamyn's Song (circa age 14-16)
    by Michael R. Burch
    
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    There are meadows heathered with thoughts of you,
    where the honeysuckle winds
    in fragrant, tangled vines
    down to the water's edge.
    
    Through the wind-bent grass
                   I watch time pass
    slow with the dying day
    on its lolling, rolling way ...
    And I know you’ll soon be mine.
    
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    There are oak trees haggard and gnarled by Time
    where the shrewd squirrel makes his lair,
    sleeping through winters unaware
    of the white commotion below.
    
    By the waning sun
                                  I keep watch upon
    the earth as she spins—so slow!—
    and I know within 
                    &n...

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    Ancient Greek Epigram translations by Michael R. Burch

    These are translations of ancient Greek epigrams by Michael R. Burch. The ancient Greek poets translated include female poets like Anyte, Erinna, Nossis and Sappho, as well as famous male poets like Aeschylus, Anacreon, Antipater of Sidon, Callimachus, Glaucus, Homer, Ibykos, Leonidas of Tarentum, Plato, Simonides, Sophocles
    
    
    
    How valiant he lies tonight: great is his Monument! 
    Yet Ares cares not, neither does War relent.
    by Anacreon, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
    
    Here he lies in state tonight: great is his Monument! 
    Yet Ares cares not, neither does War relent.
    by Anacreon, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
    
    Yes, bring me Homer's lyre, no doubt, 
    but first yank the bloodstained strings out! 
    by Anacreon, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
    
    Here we find Anacreon, 
    an elderly lover of boys and wine. 
    His harp still sings in lonely Acheron 
    as he thinks of the l...

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    SULPICIA TRANSLATIONS by Michael R. Burch

    These are modern English translations by Michael R. Burch of seven Latin poems written by the ancient Roman female poet Sulpicia, who was apparently still a girl or very young woman when she wrote them.
    
    
    
    The Favorite Poet by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888
    
    I. At Last, Love!
    by Sulpicia
    loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
    
    for Carolyn Clark, who put me up to it
    
    It's come at last! Love!
    The kind of love that, had it remained veiled,
    would have shamed me more than baring my naked soul.
    I appealed to Aphrodite in my poems
    and she delivered my beloved to me,
    placed him snugly, securely against my breast!
    The Goddess has kept her promises:
    now let my joy be told,
    so that it cannot be said no woman enjoys her recompense!
    I would not want to entrust my testimony
    to tablets, even those signed and sealed!
    L...

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    ENDLESS SEARCH

     

    "Just a few more months, then I'll leave the city and everything" - you answer when asked how you've been feeling in the past 5-10 years. It's as if they're staring at you suspiciously from the shelter of yawning window panes, and even now you don't know, why?! The smell of animals, like people, seems to get stronger in the evening, this alone makes me uneasy and in doubt.

    Someone from the growing Ervin Szabó library has stolen the Radnóti volume again; and no one asks how the average person stands with contemporary poets? You cannot find a home-shelter in temporary accommodation either. Milk became more expensive, and because I wanted Haribos gummy bears, I somehow had to decide at the same time; the decision of cognitive dissonance sooner or later gets stuck halfway and just cancels each other out. The taxi driver didn't say hello, he just mumbled something again. The adversities of the decades were visible...

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    AN EMPTY WHEELCHAIR

    Alone

    Once where a person with a disability sat

    An accident caused the effect

    Hardship and pain

    One had to endure

    Through courage in determination

    Breakthrough was made

    Inspiration through the whole ordeal

    Realities were real

    The person was a Role Model

    Courage in revelation

    The creation was one’s own response in supplementation

    Intervention with a voice

    Battle after Battle determined to survive

    Beginning into the long road ahead

    Encouragement taking flight

    Morning into Night

    Mission complete

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    A humiliating whisper


     
    I've known for a long time, there's no need for nicknames, false promises, or words. I would have to finally set out bravely without even looking back, slamming doors and windows behind me.

    Those who have been honored to meet me so far will stay with me for a while. For a while, I still want to put a flower wreath in the waterfall hair cascade of real lady-angels. I carry with me my memories condemned to neglect at the age of forty, less than three years old.

    My battered, eternal longing for a more honest, romantic world, which seems increasingly distant, can only be an idyllic fog on the wall of my thinking imagination.

    Yet, like a magnetic force, it pulls you towards you, beckons you to think that it might be possible to get by here in a different way. My longing hope often dwindles, and I start to feel empty, just like the gaping Absence inside me.

    I am still weak with earthly stupidity, like an outcast, a clum...

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    COOKIE MONSTER THRILL

    Mysterious bake

    Ingredients by mistake

    Forbidden Cookie Monster create

    Cookie jar Overlook

    Kitchen table

    Oven stubble

    Through a cookbook enterprise

    End result realize

    Cookie Monster ready for chill and thrill

    All at will

    Brought to life

    Not a cookie to eat

    Retreat and run

    One doesn’t want this Cookie Monster among

    The Cookie Monster is out of control

    Moving and being bold

    Not a Pillsbury threshold

    Cookie Monster attack

    That ends that

     

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    POPCORN MAN

    A male performer being a Pop Music Star

    From start to finish

    This is what makes a Popcorn Man distinguished
    There’s more

    A Male Pop Star can take music to different levels in the lows and high’s

    Popcorn quality entertainment

    Flavor of attire

    Performances that never seem to expire

    Music lives on

    Tone and rhythm

    Talent of its own

    Full Blown

    Popcorn Man that has arrived and never depart

    A true stand alone

     

     

     

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    THE ORY OF INTERCONNECTION

     

    It is already a self-inflicted wound, which constantly exposes itself to new vulnerability, to the crossfire of humiliation and murder. Conscious, honest understanding, when connections and differences of opinion could also take place at the tables, as if they were completely excluded. Even a question mark wrapped in the fetal position after the real questions, to which it would still be appropriate to cough up answers through gritted teeth.

    It is almost impossible to bear a wolf's eye with the small, small-scale spikes of the World, and no mortal can rise above its outcast Fate, not even if it dies. The average person who is looking for a daily income is entitled to the babbling of children from Earth, but he cannot understand that here, the ugly, compromising duel of secret worm alliances is going on all the time. Because the structure of transparent ideas is just as dirty and inferior, just like some 20-something five-minute person whom the tabloid ...

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