Sappho Translations IV
...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch
Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t...
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Categories:
cassia, friend, joy, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
My Desert Cassia
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Among the shadows of the night
I hear your footsteps
the scent of jasmine
on your henna-dyed hair.
I remember how you looked then
as I ponder upon twilight summers
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Categories:
cassia, absence, beautiful, beauty, friendship
Form: Free verse
Spring In Air
...A secret admirer sent fresh flowers
Through his good-looking gardener
The girl didn’t really know
That he couldn’t talk so
She kissed him with a “yes” answer.
The gardener pointed at the man
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Categories:
cassia, funny, love, magic,
Form: Limerick
'cause I'M Wonderless
...Driven by courage and inherent strength;
Dream of worlds vanish, transcending forward.
Wonder-less towards the horizon length,
Vagrant clouds sail with the wind's breath northward.
Dream of wor...
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Categories:
cassia, fantasy,
Form: Pantoum
Who Invented Soap
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Now, historians say the Babylonians invented soap in 2800 B.C.E
Water, alkali and cassia oil ~ formula of hope in the 21st century...
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Categories:
cassia, health, history, science,
Form: Epigram
Salt Lake
...On my first trip to the outback across the endless plains,
I saw a harsh and hungry land in pastel coloured stains.
There are more secrets out there, than sun and shifting sand -
It would take mor...
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Categories:
cassia, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer Aquarium
...A fish drifts in a fresh water aquarium
The soul of the fish dwell forever in this live suit
Living on nothing but oxygen, just like we all do
How’s it to live in an Aquarium, forever in ...
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Categories:
cassia, bible, inspiration, jesus, life,
Form: Quatrain
Ndifreke
...Oluwapemi... your name is soft to the ears... your name speaks peace...
Your name is the soothing ointment of the troubled mind
It sounds like the luculent laughter that comes with the dawn when th...
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Categories:
cassia, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
The Mid Autumn Festival
...Night falls and the mirror moon illumes the
heavenly starry skies with gleaming ivory beams.
Shiny and mellow, a splendrous silver orb,
the delight of the night sky!
It is the evening of th...
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Categories:
cassia, appreciation, autumn, beauty, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Spring
...Bathed in nectar dew drops, now
the damsel spring stealthily
tiptoes into the hamlet
with all its strength.
The south breeze plays
fifth symphony on tender new leaves,
flings the grey garmen...
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Categories:
cassia, beauty, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Galant City Unmatches Your Greatness
...You are extreme in beauty
perfected by builders who constructed all
your planking with pine trees from Ivory coast
and made a mast for you out of the combined crafts
from brown ebony and...
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Categories:
cassia, birth, birthday, blessing, celebration,
Form: Ode
Garments Scented In Myrrh Aloes As Cassia
...Without the means to take us there, we spread our wings..
Amid imagination and shall one fail as fly ? Revisiting days gone by
A young teen sitting at her mall; tainted, still far from polluted be ...
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Categories:
cassia, art, baby, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?
The Sounds of Summer
...The Sounds of Summer
I was trying to hear the sounds of Summer,
Which often comes with heat and dust like a hammer,
Suddenly I saw, lots of clouds hanging in the air,
They were covering...
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Categories:
cassia, imagination, natureme, tree, sound,
Form: Free verse
Environment
...The flame of the forests blushing
In the dewy cool of the morning air.
Peach blossoms hearken spring’s arrival.
Comes summer, Amaltas golden bells ringing.
Forget me not, Magnolia’s lover.
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Categories:
cassia, lifeme, winter, me, today,
Form: Free verse