Flowerless Poems - Poems about Flowerless

...I started chopping, one by one the non gratae parts of my Temple, while unbeknownst to me pebbles were already spreading whispers in all directions. Shh..don’t speak so loud You might as well ......Read the rest...

...She haunted me as a child, Staring quietly from her watercolor world. Her strange presence called me. Powder-white skin and rouge cheeks, Pencil-thin brow over Dark-rimmed eyes Shedding a s......Read the rest...

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops: flashes of light briefly illuminating the void. —Ouchi Yoaka......Read the rest...

...A lovely rose grew to the garden's delight, a poem of sunrise surrounded by night. One day her friend Ivy asked "Why do you mourn?" Rose answered, "I've lost my beloved dear thorn. "We've bee......Read the rest...

...For puppets never see the strings their lifetimes scenes played out on stage reflected in the viewers eyes their lives and deaths a curtain call. No sunrise ever greets their day for puppets n......Read the rest...

...I was once something of a pessimist, and that fact did not concern me, As violet birds are content, to spend their nights in different trees. Still I had a happy and quiet existence, or at least ......Read the rest...

...will keikis arrive from the nodes of your flowerless fingers? I think not. will bringing orchids and cutting free their flowers work? Perhaps if it’s our wedding night. 7/12/2021 Contes......Read the rest...

... THE SEEDS OF THIS SPRING. FLOWERS WILL NOT GROW, NO MASKS THEY TOLD ME, I ASKED. 1/14/2021 ......Read the rest...

...Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations Air ballet: twin butterflies, twice white, meet, match & mate —Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Denied transformation ......Read the rest...

...Realized Dream Sabbatical dreams after quarantine, Sun hint suitcases in unkempt closet, Copy of an E-ticket stretches trash, Cellphone replenished, impotent ere long. A bowl of flakes stifl......Read the rest...

...Dusk-gliding swallow, please spare my small friends flitting among the flowers! —Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch A bee emerging from deep within the peony's hairy recesses flie......Read the rest...

...The rest of my life starts now... A checkerboard battle of custody, evidence of fatherly love fell short My fuddled walk now through leafless trees, weeps, traversing corners of an empty nest ......Read the rest...

...https://youtu.be/yIIGQB6EMAM The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy. The brain is wider than the sky. The sky takes on shades of orange during Sunrise and Sunset.The colo......Read the rest...

...PASSION OF AN ARTIST The landscapes I paint have fence one or two, some with bent pegs, some with broken bars. Fence between chipped pathway with sunset hue and flower......Read the rest...

...Unassuming beauty of emerald evergreen. Verdure cool patches of sombre sunscreen. Flowerless soft carpets of impasto strokes. The gorgeous mossy sponge .. vibrance evokes. The gregarious gre......Read the rest...