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My Gemini Garden

A walk in wonderland.
    Sun kissed shades of green.
        Ferns as delicate as Chantilly lace.
          ...

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Categories: boxwood, garden,
Form: Free verse

Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My Heart

Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”)
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town;
Heavy languor and dark
Drenches my heart.

Oh, the sweet-sounding rain
Cleansing pavements...

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Categories: boxwood, french, hate, heart, love, pain, paris, rain,
Form: Verse

Sweet Childhood Memories

"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
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Categories: boxwood, childhood,
Form: Tail-rhyme

The Wind In the Pines 2

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


2.   The Beach, After Dark 

The coast has drowned...

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Categories: boxwood, myth,
Form: Couplet

Christmas

Christmas

           A zure Sky rejoiced and glanced on Green Earth.
           B ethlehem Star glistened, glittered...

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Categories: boxwood, christmas,
Form: Abecedarian

BELLS RINGING

     
                         Bells ringing off and on
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Categories: boxwood, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Maze

PATHS were bordered by boxwood hedges
softened with fern, surrounding GARDEN edges.
Light floral scents perfumed the morning air
and sweet alyssum lined walkways; pea graveled.
I strolled through the MAZE with a hint of despair
for I'd never been...

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Categories: boxwood, faith,
Form: Rhyme

The Garden

The Garden

Roses and violets grow wild yet tamed in raised gardens
English boxwood and laurel line the white gravel footpath
Butterflies and bees float and buzz around a thousand flowers
Their sounds melding with the soft footsteps of...

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Categories: boxwood, nature, places,
Form: Free verse

Winter Enters

WINTER ENTERS   
 
              Winter showing snowy splendor
            ...

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Categories: boxwood, snow, winter,
Form: Verse

Paul Verlaine Translation: Spleen

Spleen
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The roses were so very red;
The ivy, impossibly black.

Dear, with a mere a turn of your head,
My despair’s flooded back!

The sky was too gentle, too blue;
The sea, far...

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Categories: boxwood, blue, depression, green, paris, rose, sea, sky,
Form: Verse

Winter To Enter

WINTER

          Winter showing snowy splendor
              elating elegant whiteness
     ...

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Categories: boxwood, appreciation, winter,
Form: Quintain (English)

Butterfly Kisses

Butterfly Kisses

I am here strolling in the cool wood
as I take a seat drinking in nature
I espy some movement in the boxwood
going over to look I see a feeler

There to my delight by chance
is a...

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Categories: boxwood, butterfly, kiss, love, nature,
Form: Light Verse