
This is the Substack of Michael R. Burch with some of his very best poems and translations.
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Don’t ever hug a lobster!
by Michael R. Burch
Don’t ever hug a lobster, if you meet one on the street!
If you hug a lobster to your breast, you’re apt to lose a teat!
If you hug a lobster lower down, it’ll snip away your privates!...
In the picture above Donald Trump flaunts a Bible he has never read, while in the background the ominous sign warns “UNDAY SERVICES ONLINE.” Trump’s satanic online tweets have led millions of American Christians astray from the true Son and...
Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
They’ll have to grow like crazy,
the springtime baby geese,
if they’re to fly to balmier climes
when autumn dismembers the leaves ...
And so I toss them loaves of bread,
then whisper...
Dream Song of the Thunders
Chippewa saying
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Sometimes I bemoan my “plight”
when all the while the wind bears me
across the immense sky.
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These are modern English translations...
Altared Spots
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield n...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I am a poet, translator, essayist, literary critic, editor and publisher. My poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 23 languages, and set to music 79 times by 36 composers.
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