Sonnet Aubade Poems

Her birthday

We’re having lunch in the Cascais centre 
at a posh restaurant with a sea view.
The price of the lunch was outrageous
steak with salad and...

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Between grains of ancient fine sand
desert roses hidden from sight—
Colourful, exquisitely fanned.
They formed in darkness; pressure shaped.
Each perfect corolla agape
in floral whorl of sharp crescents;
fluorescent...

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Abide
by Michael R. Burch

after Philip Larkin's "Aubade"

It is hard to understand or accept mortality—
such an alien concept: not to be.
Perhaps unsettling enough to spawn religion,
or...

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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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Nocturnum 
We lie beneath the slowly waning moon, 
Her sharp shape emerging like a fine fang, 
Metamorphosed from the bright afternoon
And now -- upon a...

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OBLIVION
Your head is dead a chamber vast and void
and nothing's what you think on anymore
forgotten are all things you once enjoyed
and are replaced by life...

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The Hummock
There is a hill behind the houses rounded and soft
I call it a -mother hill- and it welcome you and softly
Murmur, how do you...

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Moonlight Romance 

It was in Peru
And the moon was full
Working long hours, I went early 
To bed and didn`t see the moon that often
I had...

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Mind and heart sync in profound peace,
Yield stillness sound beyond mere voice.
Speak wordless think in vibrant ease,
Observe the grounds of sacred choice;
Love calls to feel...

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Unwanted 

I was walking in the forest but not feeling well
my stomach was extended hadn`t been able to evacuate
for days, when suddenly it was time....

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When a Bordello was fun 

I sit down with the best intention to write about flowers
and love which made me think the whore houses tend...

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The daylight's darkness drops again,
The wind looses its controlling brain
And the dust protest in Peaceful anger
Thunder whispers banger
Hopeless than a motioned train
A droplet of a...

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