Spring Ballade Poems

Unlike first rains on dusty countryside, 
No lasting pathways etched are by despair, 
But hope comes like a first shower to guide, 
To give ample...

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Leaves longing on settled limbs, tongues of green
savoring sweetened rays of saffron Sun,
claim this crowning hall a new day to be.
Mother's morning prayers hath long...

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roll your puff pastry into a large disc.
make sure it cover to bottom of a
spring form pan. use extra to cover 
all sides.
layer slices of...

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When i remember spring 
I shall dance beneath 
the weeping willow trees
I shall sing loudly 
capturing the breeze
 
gazing into the warm sunset 
why I'd...

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Acadain Foods. Hestia might find fit and perfect
might she find thyme to set before her servants?
The shore were Neptune watches the beauty's: 
who makes show...

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soak 1 1/2 cups of rasians in
3/4 cups of conage (one day)
strain and allow to dry
on a bakers rack
mix with one cup of chopped walnuts
plus...

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Sunbeams arouse me with their touch,
a caress that Spring breezes share.
At first, it does not feel like much
for an answer to a prayer.
And yet, it...

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not a moment without your name
images never the same
the cup you hold to fill
to still the heart beyond until
from the spring of infinity
the lovers call...

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BOUNDED.
I'm so lost in a place I know too well,
I'm equally broken and confused,
I'm just lonely in the midst of people,
And I'm surrounded by beauty...

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Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel


Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and...

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She wills it but fears of wanting what she already has
Her beauty is below her, among her. and over her head

Not one but two, nor...

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Fog takes center stage
as time is truly lost
bled out into the wild
where souls are bound then tossed

day into night into day
a thirty six hour affair
one...

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Dreams of spring
The violent storm has passed
The sun has risen
Hopes have been resurrected
Phototropic dreams have been awoken

The skies are at peace now
Their tears have dried...

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Feeling of spring,
Soul in harmony  
Cloudiness behind me 
Blue sky my destiny;
 
Heart of Roses,
Grace adding melodies
Deep silence leaving me
Soft songs my symphony;
 
Whisper...

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The Distant Flame

A paramount flame enraptures to rule,
unearthing the spicy array of my senses,
the reverie of spring, cautiously subdued,
the syncopated beat, three steps beyond pretentious.
Longing...

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