http://slow.writerscafe.org/MichaelRBurch The original writings of author Michael R. Burch en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775996412 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 These are modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems of Ono no Komachi, translated by Michael R. Burch. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2912019/ “Jessamyn’s Song” is an early poem of mine inspired by Claude Monet’s oil painting “The Walk, Woman with a Parasol,” which I first saw around age 14 and interpreted as a walk in a meadow or heather. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2909280/ These are antinatalist poems, quotes, epigrams and translations. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2906105/ These heretical poems on the subjects of God, religion and Christianity explain why I “left” the Religious Right.If one screams below,what the hell is "Above"?―Michael R. BurchReligion is regarded by fools as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. ― Se.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2905985/ These are prayer poems by Michael R. Burch, along with a few hymns and poems on the subject of God and religion. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2901014/ This is a collection of limericks by Michael R. Burch, along with limerick-like poems and other poems written in limerick meter. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2899047/ These are poems for children, poems about children, and poems about mothers, fathers and families… http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2889045/ Sonnets by Michael R. Burch http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2883145/ These are poems about science: computers, AI, robots, drones, advanced weapons, global warming, climate change, pollution, extinction events, deforestation, evolution, physics, chemistry, etc. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2879108/ These are poems about Shakespeare, poems for Shakespeare, and poems after Shakespeare. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2863634/ These are my most popular poems on the Internet, according to Google. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2853834/ These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2852489/ These are my modern English translations of haiku about plum blossoms, plums and plum trees. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2852189/ These are poems I call Fables and Poetic Fables. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2852022/ TRANSLATIONS OF SCOTTISH POETS http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2846252/ These are poems about the Nashville Covenant School shootings. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2845881/ These are modern English translations of poems by the Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2835772/ This is my modern English translation/modernization of a William Soutar ballad. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2828810/ Translations of French poems by Voltaire, by Michael R. Burch http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2823157/ Poems for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, especially Ukrainian children and their mothers in their time of peril. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2809858/ These are poems about relationships that didn't work out, poems about relationships on the rocks ...Almostby Michael R. BurchWe had―almost―an affair.You almost ran your fingers through my hair.I almost kissed the almonds of your toes.We almost loved, that’s always how love goes.You.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2800925/ This poem is a lullaby for the first human Clone. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2800798/ This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the cemetery, the tombs seemed to “support&rd.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2800668/ These are my modern English translations of poems by Stephane Mallarme, one of my favorite French poets. These include the sonnet "Le Cygne" ("The Swan") and the sonnet "Le tombeau d’Edgar Poe." http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2798608/ This poem, a sonnet, was inspired by the incongruence of discovering "works of art" while doing laundry at a laundromat with coin-operated washers and dryers. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2796287/ These are my modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poet Huang E (1498–1569), also known as Huang Xiumei. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2786681/ These are translations of haiku about dew as a metaphor for life's transience. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2785917/ These are my modern English translations of poems by Dante Alighieri. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2783773/ Options Underwater: The Song of the First Amphibianby Michael R. Burch“Evolution’s a Fishy Business!”1.Breathing underwater through antiquated gills,I’m running out of options. I need to find fresh Air,to seek some higher Purpose. No porpoise, I despairto swim among anemones&.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2781798/ Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems in the English Language http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2777249/ A modern English translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poem THE RUIN. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2774614/ This is a poem based on a thought experiment about a 14,000-year-old beaded necklace that may have been the first calendar-calculator-notepad ... a prehistoric iPad! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2774027/ Apocalyptic Poems and Prophetic Poems http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2772845/ "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" is a translation of the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2772478/ Poems about Eros and Cupid http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2771463/ Translations of Medieval Poems http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2771243/ MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2770930/ ALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2770760/ Prose Poems and Experimental Poems http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2770667/ These are modern sonnets that range from traditional to free verse and experimental verse. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2770396/ SONG-POEMSThese are poems that were written as songs, or that could easily become songs if someone were to set them to music (hint! hint!) …Ave Mariaby Michael R. BurchAve Maria,Maiden mild,listen to my earnest prayer.Listen, O, and be beguiled.Ave Maria.Ave Maria,Maiden mild,be Mother now to.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2770172/ SELF REFLECTIONSThese are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections and self-reflection. How do we see ourselves differently than other people see us? Why do our impressions of ourselves sometimes end up like so much shattered glass?Self Reflectionby Michael R. Burch for anyone strug.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2767291/ Rumi was a Sufi mystic and a believer in Divine Love. We can see that in his poem "The Field." http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2767061/ The first Valentine poem was written in 1415 by Charles d'Orleans, a truly great poet who is undervalued today. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2766339/ These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.#2 - Love PoetryShe says an epigram’s too terseto reveal her tender heart in verse ...but really, darling, ain’t the thrillof a kiss much shorter st.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2765434/ This is my English translation of a Russian epigram by Anna Akhmatova. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2764981/ Feldeinsamkeit (“Solitude in a Field” or "Through the Fields of Solitude") by Hermann Allmerstranslation by David B. Gosselin with Michael R. Burch  Peacefully, I rest in the tall green grassFor a long time only gazing as I lie,Caught in the endless hymn of crickets,And en.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2763995/ Poems about the New Year and New Year's Day http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2761338/ Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2760836/ Love poems and translations by Michael R. Burch http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MichaelRBurch/2760166/