Child Aubade Poems

Canticle: an Aubade
Michael R. Burch

Misty morning sunlight hails the dawning of new day;
dreams drift into drowsiness before they fade away.
Dew drops on the green grass...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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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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I see a house that’s quiet
And she sits there alone
Her hands hold patterned pieces
Of cloth she has sewn

Blocks from boy’s printed shirt tails
And girl’s soft...

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She was soft and the winter snow
was out learning good deeds as we know.

Imprisonment or the dead penalty
nothing can affect the inner cruelty.

She was broken...

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Proud Servant
I was a prince in my father's house,
Even though my father was not a king
Neither was my mother a queen
I was loved by all...

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Broken Dreams 
  
 As children bring their broke toys with ears in their eyes for us to mend,
 l brought my broken dreams...

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What until today humans do HAVE,
That the First Couple on EARTH
Passed on down through CAVES,
To this day of comfortable HEARTHS?

God's DNA in his Image and...

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Sisterly Support 

I was thinking of my sister she had a blue and a green 
eye I adored her when a child I followed her...

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