Anticipates Poems

Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1

...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.

The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
at home in my...

LIKE WATER

...It starts in silence.
Deep down.
Where listening lives.

Not words—
older.

Older than moons wept for their orbit.

She stands.  
No mask.  
No shield.

The world draws—  
at her edges....

Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch

...Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.

I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The ...

My Last Day

...In the golden beacon of time.
In a shroud of darkness, a life will shine.

The rocky path was illuminated with a glow.
To show your beating heart in your soul.

A leaf gently swirls in the wind...

faerie anticipates a happening

...Silent October forest
Frisky fey feel jolt of anticipation
Dwarfs, brownies, fireflies and faeries on ready alert
Something is about to happen

One tiny faerie is particularly clairvoyant and pe...

Evolutionary Letter Number Twenty Six

...Cantos Uno  Obsessive Eclipse Octavia
Israel  is like a mote on mankind’s face 
Born on May 14 1948 ,
A host of problems a bloody disgrace 
I see two  eclipses to change it’s fate,
A lunar eclip...

The Understudy

...Yes, everyone knows of the reindeer that fly
Guiding dear Santa through Christmas Eve sky

What of one who waits
                    One who anticipates


What of the understudy
             ...

One September Morning

...

It was indeed a September morning
and most memorable; So unlike any
before or after. I remember the
PLACE, coming upon a hill on a
famous California highway as the
sunlight began to light up...

Gruemeister Anticipates Her Terror Upon Wakening

...she felt her body go limp
her head was down
her hair flowing toward ground zero
but did she wake up?
no. this was not what the gruemeister had in mind
and he was in charge of her
for it was Hal...

Times of Change

...Extempored Etiquettes
Elaborated conversations of old
Mildly in motion
of words to express
Synesthetic syncopations
silenced inner egos.
Naived out soul
Anticipates long enough
for a change t...

Autumn Whispers

...

Like the feel of resurrection in the Spring,
or like great bridges over troubled waters
connecting landmasses, Autumn bridges Summer
from the coming cold. She may well bring us the
devastatin...

Maestro

...
Composed, he walks towards the podium.
At first to applause, until a hush forms.
His heart beats like a water pump,
sweat drips - eyes fixed at his ensemble.
Audience anticipates,
as he stands...

Yin - Yang

...the silence that listens -
the stillness that anticipates

what is one
becomes the other

   Earth spins
from yin to yang
- dark to light
- death to growth

what is one
becomes the other
...

Land Yields

...

The land lies
Chilled and stilled.
Whether flatlands
Or rolling hills.

Damp, cold, and alone;
She doesn't feel at home.

It's hard to feel at home
Where warmth and purpose seem
To be i...

Illumination

...It’s not a walk through the woods that soothes the troubled mind, 
It’s not the sinking sun that calms perturbed nerves, 
It’s not the tranquil night that brings hope, 
It’s not a walk by the sea ...

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