Long Ruffles Poems
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Ancient HaikuThese 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:
ruffles, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
ruffles, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Paul and Sarah - Part TwoConditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
ruffles, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"
Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long
slow, deep, warm and wet
The story is...
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Categories:
ruffles, dream, romance, sensual,
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Romanticism
Much Ado About No Thing"By definition, a ghost is unable to bonk anybody --
save the believer in ghosts."
-- a Rational exorcist of all no things "supernatural"
* * *
Now, once...
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Categories:
ruffles, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
The Penelope Squad
“The Penelope Squad”
A line of bluebirds
tittering on a line
swaying on the winds
like comedian pageboys
having a good time
poop in the peg bucket
words wooden and sharp
fly off with frosty notes
dirt and sherry stains
imprinted on
Penelope’s...
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Categories:
ruffles, giggle, humor, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
When death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleepWhen death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleep,
Between the chasms of my being, like a butterfly in a cocoon,
I embraced her to my chest that whispered seraphic tales,
And...
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Categories:
ruffles, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Afternoon With My AuntYou came into her house through the kitchen.
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock at the front door meant a stranger.
Aunt Celesta makes a...
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Categories:
ruffles, caregiving, childhood, family, feelings, together,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Life, I Love You SoIf anybody ever asks me about my feelings and thoughts about Life,
I would tell them how and when it all started, meeting you, that is.
I would tell them the place where and how and to...
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Categories:
ruffles, life, love, thanks,
Form:
Free verse
What's Fair Is FairWhat’s fair is fair
I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor and was met by
counter after counter of cosmetics and perfume
with...
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Categories:
ruffles, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form:
Free verse
If, For InstanceIf, for instance.......you might imagine it all...
Do try,... if you can.......
Pretending, perhaps, that it was long ago....
And let's say,...that you were on the brink of discovery,
16 years old,...
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Categories:
ruffles, graduation, old, song,
Form:
Narrative
A Resting StateIn some strange blue green aurora borealis kind of way
my days are an aged book
I smell of leather bindings
spine dented
I noticed my own fingernails
tuck them under
Try not to get distracted by vanity
The O'clock...
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Categories:
ruffles, age, animal, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death Haiku IvZEN DEATH HAIKU IV
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
The moon
hovering above the snow-capped mountains
rained down hailstones
—Sekitei Hara, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, dreamlike winter butterfly:
a puff of...
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Categories:
ruffles, age, analogy, angst, animal, death, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
A Wish For a New DayWhat happened to my boisterous boy,
beloved keeper
...
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Categories:
ruffles, bird, day, emotions, loneliness, nature, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Season of SilenceWhen nature wilts into
a colorless haven,
metaphors of death sprout
...
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Categories:
ruffles, life,
Form:
Free verse
RobertI am born into the Calvagna family, a weak frail child.
At the age of three I tell my mother I will be a hero someday. She weeps holding me closely.
In late August everyone...
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Categories:
ruffles, dark, death,
Form:
Prose
ContactContact
Standing in a field, camera in my hand,
Scanning misty pines, haloed hill so grand.
Many miles I've traversed, now lost all sense of time,
Morning dew underfoot, dappled light is sublime.
The green plants of this earth,...
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Categories:
ruffles, men, perspective, spiritual, symbolism, travel, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
AmayaYour walk away into the echoing stillness
Of a crimson autumn sunset
Gently stepping over the leaf-strewn forest floor
As withered leaves under your feet
Bid you soft and gentle adieu.
The wild blossoms by your wayside smile
And lend you...
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Categories:
ruffles, loneliness, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Familiar
"The Familiar"
Softly ever so Softly
on hardened paws
Nemesis
follows the
Red Apple
scent of
Her sword
a peony pink pocket flushed
velvet violent violet viola
playing
warm honey dripping
from the pocket
it buzzes
as if with...
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Categories:
ruffles, dark, freedom, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
The DancerThe young woman waits anxiously, backstage
In the shadows created by the soft, velvet curtain.
Her heart is pounding so loudly that she was sure
It could be heard by those standing around her,
Possibly even...
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Categories:
ruffles, dance,
Form:
Free verse
To Live, Flightless BirdsA single branch, clawed and pecked, fickle and straining,
Lonely Nestling and father, paw and peck at their home
Lonely branch, spasms in the wind
Nestling and father paw and peck, yearn and whimper
These Flightless Birds, on a...
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Categories:
ruffles, caregiving, childhood, death, dedication, depression, faith, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Coherent Chorus of CompassionI write my thoughts
on paper,
let ink of my soul
glow, amidst the grief
I carry in echoing stillness,
for it...
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Categories:
ruffles, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
The BoogeymanThe Boogeyman
"Lay your head down child I won't let the Boogeyman come"
another infamous Tool ballad blares out of the speakers.
"Go back to sleep, go back to sleep..."
James (now 14) hits the power button and says...
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Categories:
ruffles, childhood, dark, horror, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Through the Mind's EyeI close my eyes and I hear a sound,
Running water, joyful and unbound.
Leaping and roaring, swirling and swishing,
Loud slaps of waves crashing.
But the chaos yet fuels peace within me,
As I...
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Categories:
ruffles, naturepeace, peace, sun, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Diving InWhen I am looking at the end of the board, my world shrinks down to that one foot at the end of the board. My hands swing gently back and forth, and back again. My...
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Categories:
ruffles, sports,
Form:
Prose