Brocaded Poems - Poems about Brocaded

...The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII by Pablo Neruda translation by Michael R. Burch Ascend with me, my American love! Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together! The Urubamba’s torren......

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... Time and tide flit so fast, Forgetting how mellow memo faded. So long pain and pining last, Getting missing mood brocaded. Strings in both hearts, rent by retrospective rift, Amid murky m......

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...Perhaps it is the yellowing autumnal foliage that the evening light reflects, or it could be the yellow corvette parked beneath this particular tree that up-lights the sky? Dusk brings diaphan......

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...A spider carefully plans and schemes the pattern for its life and quest. It spends its hours weaving dreams until it creates its sticky best. Its web is tatted small and refined or brocaded in......

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...Hail to the Royal Family, posed for their formal portrait On King Randolph's right is his consort, Queen Margaret Young Prince Lance is behaving and holding very still I heard his Papa warn him, "......

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...Beware of politicians whose active manifesto Is always to speak ill of other candidates and opposition parties. They are the real problems! Beware of political goons and rumour-mongers, spin......

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...Windswept nimbus sentinels are gathering quickly darkening the noon day sky. Sunlight wanes, becoming veiled behind layers of opaque clouds. Like shrouds they hasten by. Gusting winds approac......

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...Although I've never kept fanciful fountain pens close at hand, I have found no need for flamboyant quills to dip into a well, for poetic lines never heed my beck and call or my command. Someti......

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...SORROWS OF THE WILD GEESE by HUANG E These are my modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poet Huang E (1498–1569), also known as Huang Xiumei. She has been called the most outstanding......

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...Miss Nellie lived up Paint Creek way She spent her whole life in solitude Some say Miss Nellie had attitude She clothed herself in grandest array. When Miss Nellie came into town To shop in th......

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...MODERN SONNETS I I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse. Mak......

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...Chinese Poets: English Translations II These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty......

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...LOVE POEMS II These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations......

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...That evening we took a flat-bottomed boat and swam it up the Thames. Douglas the middle-aged ***** served martinis out of a crystal pitcher. Lurching for lips, he kissed me. I was surprised how......

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