Best Whitens Poems

THEY graze in beauty on the land
     of grassy glades and dewy dales,
and all that's best of tamed and tanned
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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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lone twig stands upright
robins wag their tails to tweet
snow whitens the lea

1st Placement
Written 16/01/2022
Haiku 5,7,5 syllables
Winter Haiku contest
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Where have all the seasons gone?
The seasons of long ago
When summers were filled with sunshine,
The winters white with snow.

We now get snow at Easter,
Blistering hot...

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Age whitens the hair and dye defeats the age...

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I am the sweet uplifting breeze
I am the grass that brushes knees
I am the swallows taking flight
I am the stars that shine each night
I am...

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I feel the serenity of the winds
It touches my bosom with love
The peaceful ambiance with men
Never hatred comes to their minds
Seeing the dancing leaves of...

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I need this translated into Czechoslovakian
so I can send the translation back to a
Czechoslovakian woman named Anna Moon.
This is my interpretation of an interpretation.
Jim Horn

And...

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When the dappled earth whitens,
And the owl calls no more 
And all the hills are wet with dew
From summer's sizzling breath,

When Autumn meets the snow...

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Why Me Lord

And yet, when I saw his silhouette,
Was lost with silent darkness, I regret;
Like Moon in sky am pale but sound
With him wanted to...

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Ache
I shake
In the light
I break
My need
It feeds 
Cut
I bleed
Im caught 
It grips
I slip
I stare
it drips
so red
i bled
lost 
in my head
cant stop shaking 
cant stop moving
cant...

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Glass eye, opaque and quizzical,
staring up from the creel.
A question escapes as a squeak,
when picked up by the belly
and held firmly in one hand,
as the...

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IMAGE PHRASIS 1	
Over the stubble,carrion crows,mist
blankets the hedge with fading leaves
where berries rot below the bramble.
As darkness slowly descends a heavy
frost whitens the ground,the daises
hang...

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At an old forgotten Oriental cemetery,
half buried in the soil emerges a decomposed skull.
-nothing unpleasant, by the by-
It looks like glass when the sun whitens...

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French Version -

Demain, dès l'aube by Victor Hugo

Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la...

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