Hesperus Poems - Poems about Hesperus

Hitchcock

...I remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind,
independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their...

Sappho Translations XIV

...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch

In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i...

Sappho Translations V

...Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 23
translation by Michael R. Burch

I long helplessly for love.
Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares.
Who is your equa...

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...

Titan and the Night Tears of Eos

...
"Titan and the Night Tears of Eos" 

Another world calls
dreams in 
the in-between 

place before all

where the night tears 
of Eos never fall
unified consort

Astr...

Whispering Wings

...Whispering wings ~ feathers afloat,

   Molting and marvelous, magnanimous

      Wonders, alighting in familiar places.

      ~

Each feather remembers the warmth,

   The pear-shaped cra...

Afternoon Hesperus

...A red cloak covers the sky
a beautiful and somber numbing color...
Is the dark reddish solitude of the afternoon...
Offers us a show at the same time
of fear and ecstasy of wonder... !
The fiery...

Home At Night

...The brilliant night is rich with hopeful stars
And I, alone, can see them, feel their joy
As I stand on the balcony and Mars
Recedes and Venus forges an alloy
Of Mercury and Saturn, both asleep.
...

Hesperus

...( In honor of my historical neighbor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose family's summer home is about a mile from where I live )


                                  ~


The captain s...

Something Old Something New

...Written for the contest “SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW.” My original poem was written in 2017 as an epithalamium. The edit for John Lawless’  contest has become a rhyme.

SOMETHING OLD SO...

Featherbell Sleeves

...By train, plane, by wings,
I hear the angels sing.

Their featherbell sleeves,
golden flutterbies weave

in mind-blowing confection.
I remember the affection

for long distance kin and kith ...

Hesperus' Nightmare

...HESPERUS' NIGHTMARE

  "For thirty-three years I have served in the Legislature.  Every now and then, you simply give the citizens what they want."  -  Representative Steve Holland, D-Plantersville...

Evening Star

...Bedeviled by the world so brutal
He still bring – off with a grin
Baseless towards one among the nation
Still the only one to conform every time of year - 
Once in a blue moon
One will surely in...

Dreams of Love[after Liebestraum]

...Magenta thatched magic
Lantern ravine
sugar plum shadows
haunting the stream
  perplexing the galaxy
a siege of illusions
a serpentine rhapsody
leads to conclusions
  Follow the lodestar
Hes...

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