Best Mothered Poems

A Tribute to my wife, Vera S. Hinshaw (4 June 1935 - 19 July 2018)

Honey, it has been just a few days since they lowered...

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Argent moons myriad known, beneath an endless zenith sky
When hotter suns unaltered and stars ruled as aperture fever of a night
Around a fire this Naabeeho...

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Motor is nudged to life in an arcing motion, arm pulling 
cord. Vein-furrowed hands grasp the fishing pole, 
slinging bait and tackle beneath one arm....

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Does the all mighty Buddha have it right
on the subject of life as suffering?
I sit here and contemplate, day and night,
scrunch my brain up in...

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Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems



Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of...

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Dreaming of a pot of gold, you came to town
It was sprawling, this metropolis, you knew none around
Your earnings were scant and engagements, irregular
The overseer...

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Many years ago I lost a friend...
 memories of her will never end !
All the times we spent together
are now etched in my mind forever...

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I asked the desert 
 to carry me from this place
 of the Qubbanet El-Qirud’ infertile soil 
 suddenly, that whisper of wind
 took my...

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So dear son,
                  A man on crutches is...

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A tree of height dreams was vast Sweet gum it seems, 
when I chance to retrace tender childhood thoughts. 
Young dreams of enemy's luck in...

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Passing the grains of rivers
mothered by the your sun,
tossed copper wind and shores rail
inch by inch--
meter by meter--
they drift along of a violet dayfall.
And glittering...

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A Man Of Your Own

The day is filled with echoes of olden time 
In shadows of pain- I watch the skylark climb 
Into the sun...

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"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). 
I am never without it."
        ...

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Mother To The Core

Browsing through the latest online daily news articles..
Here is one about a wife caring for her sick husband..
Its lengthy title was very...

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MORGANITE

You sprang up like a shoot,
And art translucent to form.
Acrylic with tears the norm,
Brush strokes of life; resolute.

MAW SIT SIT

My memories are dim
Of me and...

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