Long Jonquil Poems
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Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
jonquil, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
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
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
jonquil, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
My most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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jonquil, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
jonquil, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
jonquil, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Fleur Fluency
My (bleeding) heart is filled to overflowing,
To see any growing glad(iolus), garden glowing;
Each sun peached, (petunia) petaled delight,
Is frozen in precious moments of pure delight,
From bursting buds, to the spicy boom of blooms,
Nature is...
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Categories:
jonquil, beauty, color, flower, imagery, nature, senses, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme
The Red At the End of Gold
I was a happy fruit farmer, growing delicious, healthy fruits for consumption.
Since we'd bought the farm ten years prior, all the family lent to its function.
It was a large, productive farm, and we ran it...
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Categories:
jonquil, fantasy, fruit, joy, nature, red, sunset, tree,
Form:
Couplet
Dog Star
Dog Star
The clarity with which youthful vision perceives the world
Is increasingly fogged by the successive days of life.
Simple magnanimity is replaced by complex reservation.
Knowledge is replaced by uncertainty.
Hope is replaced by the leaden awareness of...
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Categories:
jonquil, life,
Form:
Blank verse
Children of Spring
CHILDREN OF SPRING
Spring spreads out her parasol
In April, June – always May;
Invites the children of her garden
Come with her to play today.
Yellow Daffodil stands straight up
Announcing Spring with his horn;
Spring arriving! See! Spring...
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Categories:
jonquil, flower, garden, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother Regina Pacis
I wanted to thank you
But was unable to explain
What your friendship means to me
To share wonderful memories with
It's a blessing to know our friendship
Is grateful through all these year's
In...
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Categories:
jonquil, baptism, bible, friendship, hero, love, mentor, thank
Form:
Ballad
Marvels of Summer
WARM AS THE FIRST CARESS OF MOTHER SOFT AS THE FIRST FLOWER IN BLOOM
THIS SUMMER IS BORN FROM DREAMS OF MORNING & WISHES OF AFTERNOON
BREATHE THE PERFUME OF THE SWEET GARDEN FILL YOUR SENES...
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Categories:
jonquil, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
Upspring
i’m on Georgia turf, the land
of bless your heart, pretense
of the titillation of heat.
scurries the sun; moon
damp on clothesline.
...
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Categories:
jonquil, insect, rain, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Beauty and the Beast
Spring Beauty and the Beast
Tenderly Spring sends harbingers of beauty,
Knights errant of crocus and snowdrops,
To warm winter’s shopworn heart
And soothe his brittle bones of barren boughs
With balms of long jonquil sunbeams
Melting the grumpy curmudgeon’s...
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Categories:
jonquil, flower, life, love, spring, winter,
Form:
Personification
Fairy Daydreams
Among the flowers lazily lounging high above,
Bees hover and soar like pigeons,
Counting their precious treasures,
Delving in with rapturous delight.
Elongated pebbles are my benches,
Freckling the earth around me as I ponder.
Gigantic zinnias block the sun,
Hiding my...
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Categories:
jonquil, fairy, garden,
Form:
Abecedarian
His Star-Dusted Desire
He wonders
at the aphrodisiac of her jasmine air
stirring the breeze of his being
heady in the breathy mood of her moon garden
amidst stargazer’s pink whispers
and he wishes
that his jonquil heart
be quenched by her sweet drink -
as...
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Categories:
jonquil, beauty, desire, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Spring
SPRING
Testing the water with bare toes
I will recoil
to the misted edge of hoarfrost
softened soil
peek through eyes of Crocus
and Jonquil
at the emptiness my promise
must fullfil.
I’ll whisper to the branches shy
with cold
to remember seasoned stories
they were told
beckon...
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Categories:
jonquil, seasons, spring,
Form:
Personification
Blighted Statues
I can only live in a garden
where warped talons
of tiger tulip petals mar
unbroken lines of pastel shimmer,
not where silent cerulean lakes
float as though aloft
in frames of polished stone
to tell the cloudless sky,
I'm your...
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Categories:
jonquil, flower, garden, nature, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Here Comes Spring
One lonely jonquil bows her timid head.
From earth and rain her slender leaves are fed.
Then, sunlight peeks upon the shaded site.
Sun offers warmth from snowy chills of night.
As days grow long and springtime tiptoes near,
The...
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Categories:
jonquil, flower, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom of a Weed
A dandelion crossed the line,
Announcing, "I'm no weed!"
A snooty jonquil tsked, tut-tutting,
And replied, "Indeed!"
The daffodils began to laugh,
The tulips joined their mirth;
For all the flowers knew their place
While rooted in the earth.
The gentle daisy, wild...
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Categories:
jonquil, nature, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme
Loves Bouquet
He gave me a red Camelia,
That said I was the flame in his heart
And a dainty, blue Forget-Me-Not
To remember his love, when we were apart
To tell me, I brought him happiness
He sent me Honeysuckle, perfumed...
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Categories:
jonquil, love, romance, me, beauty, beauty, me,
Form:
Rhyme
When I Faint
When I Faint
Well, thought that you were all I got,
So ain't you or ain't you really not;
For me bartender got another shot
Because he said I sure drink a lot.
First did see you on dance floor;
Next...
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Categories:
jonquil, hilarious, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Adieu April
Adieu April
Adios you soggy segue
nature’s mud pie maker
roof top drummer
dog soaker
puddle teaser.
Au Revoir
cool breathed friend
easing the ice from its depths
cajoling the worms
play peek-a-boo
with the Robins.
Bon Voyage old vagabond
titillating transient
instinct whisperer
spring’s pheromonal scent
arousing dormant need.
Farewell
fading water...
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Categories:
jonquil, april,
Form:
Free verse
Azalea's Covetous Caress
(Swap Sonnet)
Azalea struts her bloom before the rose
in early spring, to follow jonquil pose
and steal respect from phlox' expanding plume.
Before the rose, azalea struts her bloom;
her fervor glows beneath a brilliant sky
and boldly sends a...
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Categories:
jonquil, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Floral Farewell
Velvet red roses stand
cheek to cheek
with daisy faces, ringed
in petal fringes,
sweetly scented
by creamy bubbles
of double jonquil popcorn blooms
beside a starburst
yellow chrysanthemum,
and long leaves
squeezed between.
Below, their stem-straws blur
in the ribbed glass jar,
looped with a...
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Categories:
jonquil, farewell, flower, grief,
Form:
Free verse
This Dance of Shadows
It seems that as the solstice climbs the hill
to goad the slothful sun to do its will
to taunt it with its ever-urgent plea
arise and start your journey sea to sea
and then upon days closing mock...
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Categories:
jonquil, metaphor, seasons,
Form:
Sonnet