Embankments Poems - Poems about Embankments

Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch

...Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.

I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The ...

Soul Peace

...
In a silent dew, melting the morning,
Beautiful as the music, a song
Played softly on the gentlest guitars,
Stirring, urgent, the mists in a heart
Who hears the melancholy played by...

Along the Canal

...The canal poked like a finger
into the wrinkled abdomen
of the Port. Along its length,
ketches once bruised
wooden wharves unloading wheat
shipped from outports across the gulf.
Pigeons stalked...

Blue Ring Ridge

...Bouncing from piles of baby powder grains, 
     ballerina feet firm balance establishing 
     Addictive activity pulls challenger audacious
     Amidst busy Aussie city, solo gull glide coast

...

The Flower Within

...Hear not the silence in the new fallen snow
embankments high of drifted wonder hide
all that winter buries underneath its surface
and cocoons itself in an invisible whisper
when temperatures rise...

February Is a Well Learned Trickster

...February is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, fooling us yearly. 
Appearing yearly overnight, when we are dreaming of warmer things.
Covering the earth with her glistening white beauty, kn...

January Is a Well-Learned Trickster

...January is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, 
Fooling us yearly. 
Appearing overnight, as we dream of warmer things.
Covers the earth with her glistening white beauty, 
Knows we will be ...

Drivel

...we balanced along 
The embankments edge,
And past the Dead Dog Tree.
The view from the eyes that 
Flew above aerials hum
Left us down in the gravelled
Crawl. Scratch and tap among 
The ash hea...

The Turning

...The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the strengthening light, 
In its deliberate and unconcerned     ...

A Tall Tale

...I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few minutes, ...

Sprinkle More Lies

...Sprinkle More Lies

Sweet little lies we bank upon when the heart goes weak
And insecurities bar ears from wanting to hear truths
Yet beautiful in themselves, bringing surplus happiness

My lit...

A Sunny Beach

...The hectic world is like a giant ocean.
Every day we wake up and dive in.
We dive into our work, activities, or 
errands we must do inside this great big world of blue!

Our friends and fami...

You'Ll Find Me

...Mountain melt trickles a pure innocence
ever closer to her fluent destiny
with each lingering kiss from the sun
Wooded embankments overflow 
the ancient river starts to grow
and faster and faste...

The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V

...Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Int...

The Stirring of His Water

...In a pool of clear water.
Look what you can see.
Walking on the bed of the waters shore.
As sure as you can see!

The waters of his word, the waters of his blessed!
Come pouring forth from the ...

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