Activities of Michael Burch

These are the Best Poems of Michael R. Burch in his own opinion (Part II) ...
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These are the Best Poems of Michael R. Burch in his own opinion (Part II) ...
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These are my English translations of French poems by Arthur Rimbaud.
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Ballade of the Bicameral Camel
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a camel who loved to hump.
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I wrote the first version of 'Jessamyn's Song' around age 14 and it was substantially complete by age 16, my first long poem. I have touched 'Jessamyn's Song' up here and there, over the last half century, but it remains substantially the same as the original poem.

Jessamyn's Song
by Michael R. Burch (circa age 14-16)
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Epiphanies on Woman as Divine Love Incarnate
by Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) , also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine and Hildegardis Bingensis, was a German mystic who had visions of the Love of God beginning at age three. She was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath: a poet, writer, songwriter, composer, philosopher and medical writer/practitioner. remains one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany and perhaps the first notable environmentalist as well. She wrote poems and song lyrics in Latin.
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EGBERT THE ADORABLE OCTOPUS & OTHER NONSENSE VERSE

Egbert the Octopus can be viewed here, in all his high-IQ'd-ness and adorability:
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. His reputation is such that he has been called 'the Poet of the East.' His name is often spelled Faiz Ahmad Faiz in English. These are my modern English translations of Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
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These are my modern English translations of poems by the German poets Hermann Allmers, Hannah Arendt, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, H. Distler, Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gunter Grass, Heinrich Heine, Johann Georg Jacobi, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Schiller, Angelus Silesius and Georg Trakl.
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