Disconsolate Poems - Poems about Disconsolate

... I don't know of anyone who's been successful in an attempt to capture the encumbrance of a love pledged and then withdrawn, nor how to heal a heart from its fallibility. So, I'm left wo......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...“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......

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...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......

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

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

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... 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 ......

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... 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......

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

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