Best Aubade Poems

Up slightly past midnight, 
we finally called it a day as we 
exchanged goodnight kisses and 
amorous glances with tired eyes

Half-awake early morn', I lay...

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Jewel-colored butterflies flutter in scarlet sage
Hovering hummingbirds on a red tubular stage

Highways they navigate apparently their own
Invisible to humans as they stay in their zone

These...

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Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the...

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Am doing a new thing 
A thing that sings a new song 
A song that dongs a new hit 
Am hitting a high note 
Freezes...

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The silence that's before us is a patent lie
For when you see behind the mask
There is darkness is those eyes

He says come take the high...

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Always Something (Left) To Say


We riddle with change in pocket corners,
sit alone and sing an afternoon away,
nothing but the violin strings
and ukulele play.

Middle of this...

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Her breath catches with each infliction. Her pain their addiction. She wades water in a sea of strife. Her day, her tomorrow, her animosity toward...

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let’s take the long way back
beneath shaded oak and aromatic pine
athwart the weathered split-rail fence
bent into the warp and woof of nature’s wiles

past the old...

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The morning shown as a mono gray
but the forecast called for a clearing sky
which gave me time to read and pray
The morning shown as a...

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On the snow
A piece of sky
A blue umbrella...

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Its a toe in the water,

its a trigger to start,

but its never the past as we can all be alike our hi-speed-art,

it's a reason to...

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The leer at-
the anointment,

a cruise controlled gear-
gets no appointment,

the gruesome task is
to trust the element-

scarce-
or even just feebly miscalculated,

as another was given the equality one...

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The restless night had ended
abruptly. Caught between dreams and
consciousness, the town was arching towards
the sprinkled light of dawn. A perpetual regularity 
reigned over the dusty...

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I wake up in the morning
And I look up to the sky
I wonder why he took you
before I said good-bye
I look up to the stars...

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See your dream
Yet know what you’re dreaming for
Achieving takes movement 
Courage takes assurance
Encouragement is a fuel for influence
Take action for what you want to strive...

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