Disconsolate Poems - Poems about Disconsolate

...Dream Song of the Thunders Chippewa saying translation by Michael R. Burch Sometimes I bemoan my “plight” when all the while the wind bears me across the immense sky. What is life? The f......Read the rest...

...Behold the abominable annals of the Storm domicile, A living, groaning edifice of lumber and bureaucratic despair— Where Allen Storm, the paternal prodigal of procedural pedantry, Treads upon its ......Read the rest...

...The affection of my mother, a solemn silence of apathy and burning, the affection that assisted my inevitable yearning, yearning for fondness, empathy, passion and love, a cemented wish from......Read the rest...

... Written: January 05, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori Poem Inspired by the Hughes Turner Project, ____________________________________ Stars ......Read the rest...

...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS Sonnet XIV by Petrarch translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire to banish every virtue from mankind, replaced by evil in hi......Read the rest...

...Xmas tide, a time for familial gatherings, The golden chain of friendship …and companions Sweet on each other, parading arm in arm Together to share a feast and gift giving ...Nativity sce......Read the rest...

...Gefunden (“Found”) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Into the woodlands, alone, I went. Seeking nothing, my sole intent. But I saw a flower......Read the rest...

...“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi Upon my quest for quintessence. I was an amorist, positive in poetic philosophies. Elysian and empyrean effigies, enlightened i......Read the rest...

...A run-on sentence, free verse/rhyme poem… Baptizing myself miraculously in the benevolent, bubbly bathtub…playing in the cleansing water like a beloved cub Rubbing my blitheless, blessed body wit......Read the rest...

... Written: May 23, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I call you a Venus-blooded princess deity related to grace and love you, alone, lost track of your r......Read the rest...

... Written: May 10, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cosmic candor will be suitable beyond our sight, providing insight we sift and shift, sustaining a sanctum......Read the rest...

... Walking toward His grave, the cool air nipping at my nape on this chilly Nisan morning, feeling disconsolate. The sun has just risen over the Mount of Olives, while the magnificent temple basks in ......Read the rest...

... Written: February 29, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a sprawling sward of auburn swab A seraphic sight soaked in dew at dawn dazed distress and dust-laden air delic......Read the rest...

... Written: January 06, 2024 ______________________________________ Shimmering swaths of cerulean sea ionize comely light purple-tinged sand strewn with tattered shells during......Read the rest...

... Written: December 29, 2023 ___________________________________________ Mahogany motionless shadows cast by deceitful sun, a caterwaul unravels, coeval betrayal voice beckon......Read the rest...