Michael Burch Poems

Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch

for Muhammad Ali
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Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch

There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
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These are humorous epigrams: puns, wordplay, quips, zingers, japes, jests, gags, giggles, one-liners, irony, etc.
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The Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch

for Tom Merrill
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Memory
by Michael R. Burch

A black ringlet
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Passionate One
by Michael R. Burch
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Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

Alone again as evening falls,
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In the Whispering Night (I)
by Michael R. Burch

for George King
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Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka translations

Takaha Shugyo is a Japanese poet. He was born in Japan's mountainous Yamagata Prefecture and began writing haiku at age fifteen. He studied with the renowned Yamaguchi Seishi and Akimoto Fujio, won the Young Poet's Award in 1965, then went on to found the haiku magazine KARI in 1978.
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Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She also created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, the Kesh Temple Hymns, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Sargon the Great, and a formidable woman and poetess in her own right. She was the entu (high priestess) of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar/Astarte/Aphrodite) and the moon god Nanna (Sin) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.

Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna
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