Nature Elegy Poems

In chambers filled with laughter, light, and carefree sound,
A discordant echo hangs, heavy and unbound.
A specter in the corner, draped in deep shadows,
A chilling truth...

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Dear Griffin,
 I clearly remember the first time we met. Jim had brought you at all of
four months of age to my families summer reunion....

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In the cold abyss, 
we beseech that we 
may not wither in and 
from our purchase. 

Even though we do not 
expedite ourselves and 
flow...

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A tribute to Marie,
Marie, you seemed to draw the short straw in life,
Again and again, 
Yet somehow you were able find a way to keep...

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I love walking in the rain
Because no one sees my tears
The drops mask my pain
And wash away my fears

The thunder drowns out my sobs
As lightning...

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Forgotten Beauty

Scarlet Beauty in her deathbed
Beauteous than the dewy rose
Beauteous than the dale of hermit
Beauteous than the Oceans pose
Beauteous than the eves and mornings
Which in...

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Old Persian expedition of eight ships
Eight hundred soldiers on board with whips
Traveled and obliterated Aksumites of good gesture
People of worship, peace and humane nature

Aksum of...

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I found him lying on his bed,
hair tousled and with a sweet smile.
I realized that he was dead.
I knew this was no show of guile.
A...

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Smiles and Laughter

I’d rather be noted for eliciting a smile
Bringing a ray of sunshine into your life
Than to have awards, trophies, and note
In a world...

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The nature has been unruly
Where we laid our chimneys
Pandemonium whirling in the air
The accents terrible was heard
The hatched to the woeful time
Manifest the obscure birds
The...

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I AM AFRICA
I am a mother not a murderer
Patronage of numerous natural resources
Filled with beautiful creatures are my tropical
My heritage, adorned with glorious cultures
In the...

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They called you Grandma - 
         matriarch of Taiaroa Head. 
Your husband of seventeen years, Blue Green,
...

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This is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912. 

Second Elegy
by...

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This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie...

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I know life is fleeting, it all but crumbles to dust,
willessly washed away by the passage of time.
So easily lain waste and forgotten.

Yet for me...

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