Es Una Otra Primavera
Es una otra primavera
Es una nueva temporada
Un otro día de lluvia ligera cayendo
Un otro día medio soleado otra vez
Y una otra ocasión de presenciar
Y de disfrutar de los bulbos que florecen
Donde muchos pollitos azules están tarareando
Imitando multitud de coloridos gorriones
Que están cantando alegremente
En el cielo, donde dos arcoíris gemelos
Que están estacionados con mucho estilo
Como dos
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Categories:
flores, color, flower, growth, love,
Form: Free verse
Maria Flores 1878-1923
Maria Flores
1878-1923
Si, he was muy macho!
I was the last to see him.
Before Senor White sealed his body for eternity,
Inside the cheapest casket I had ever seen!
And I was working there, for White-Emerson,
From the time I was 16,
Combing the dead’s hair, and mixing make-up.
Señora White, she put the make-up on their faces,
And I stood back by
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Categories:
flores, passion,
Form: Epitaph
Daddy: For Miguel Flores
Daddy; time to say goodnight
Daddy; time for goodnight kisses
Daddy; time to stall want just a few more minutes with you
Daddy; Can you teach me to drive?
Daddy; Can you take my hand this college thing is so tough?
Daddy; I remember those antiques
Daddy I remember listening to those records
Daddy; I remember those sleepless nights
Daddy; I remember those
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Categories:
flores, dad, death, loss,
Form: Free verse
Flores Para Los Muertos - Vignette
An inebriated vixen promoted duress
as she and George played "Get the Guests."
A fractured malevolence mirroring Macbeth
resulted in her first-born's death.
Atop his imagined coffin, a snapdragon rests.
Author's Note:
Vignette inspiration:
Play - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
Playwright - Edward Albee
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Categories:
flores, on writing and words,
Form: Narrative
Flowers/Blumen/Flores
Flowers found at forest's fringe
Nature nourishes nature's nursery
Blossoms blooming bright
Summer sounds spendour serenade
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Blumen blühen beim Baumbestand
Natur nährt ihre Neuzucht
Blüten blühen bunt
Sommers Sinfonien in schöner Serenade
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Flores florecen en la forestación
Naturaleza nutre la naturaleza
Flores florescen fuertemente
Sinfonias en sonida serenata
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Note: Sorry that I had to change a bit the translations
to rules of Alliteration
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Categories:
flores, nature
Form: Alliteration
Annemonenblüten/Flowers of the Anemone/Las Flores De La Anémona
Am Fuße der Berge
Versteckt sich ein enges Tal
Im Schatten der Gipfel
Annemonenblüten im frischen Gras
Erste zarte Boten des Frühlings
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At the foot of the mountains
Hides a narrow valley
In the shadow of the summits
Flowers of anemones on fresh tender grass
The first messengers of spring
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A los pies de las montañas
Se esconde un estrecho valle
En
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Categories:
flores, nature
Form: Tanka
Blüten Des Jasmin/Flowers of Jasmine/Flores Del Jazmín
Tanzend in der Sonne
Die zarten Blüten des Jasmin
Wie duftendes Porzellan
In dem sanften Frühlingshauch
Erklingen die Lieder der Vögel
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Dancing in the sun
The fragile flowers of Jasmine
Like fragrant porcelaine
In the soft breeze of spring
Resound the songs of birds
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Bailando en el sol
Las flores finos del jazmín
Como porcelana fragante
En suave soplo primaveral
Resuenan los cantos de pájaros
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Categories:
flores, nature
Form: Tanka
Kirschblüten/Cherry Blossoms/Flores Del Cerezo
Die weissen Kirschblüten
Fallen im leichten Windgesang
Wie Schnee auf den Weiden
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White cherry blossoms
Falling in a soft breeze of songs
Like snow on the meadows
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Blancas flores del cerezo
Callendo en brisa suave de canciones
Como nieve sobre los pastos
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Categories:
flores, nature
Form: Haiku