Long Vault of heaven Poems

The Poet
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch

Only upon me, the lonely one,
Do this endless night’s stars shine
As the fountain gurgles its faery song.

For me alone, the lonely one,
The shadows of vagabond clouds
Float like dreams...

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Our Beloved returns        with a mighty entourage
his banner men ride before him
             they are swifter than...

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When I looked in to her eyes,
In it I saw a prospect of a paradise.
A paradise whose entry was not 
contingent on my righteousness.
My days of startling agony, still battled my
hope of finding true love.
Like...

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OCULUS  

Is…

…about the MOON, its power, its mystery, its simplicity?

Its light is soft a pail reflection 
Of its son. 
The one always on the run. 

The moon is an oculus of cold white a...

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Upon silver tracks, in moments held in suspense,
Gentle steps of angels are faintly heard, idly interlaced.
The vault of heaven quivers in translucent azure;
Through the eternities creeps a divine murmur, cold and alive.
The pure echo of...

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Snowflakes swirl of white in different shapes
round and round full of spirit they can’t escape 
falling, falling from the blue vault of heaven 
draping the cold ground  
Everything vanishing in white never fearing 
twinkling,...

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Lugubrious blue mood skies funereal  and morose shed raindrops,
they unleash tableau vivant torrent’s wet tranche,
blessing,  bane or boon from vault of heaven,
damp pearl blob  bewitching moisture mellow morph form, 
the stuff of...

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The tangerine sun sets in the western California sky,
along the pebbled shore the tide breaks with ease-
In the medallion clouds the bald eagles start to fly
and I feel the comfort and warmth of the breeze....

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I heard the chimes at twelve o'clock
Ring in a brand new year;
And beyond the noise of all the news
I listened hard to hear.
A chorus of lamentation
Ringing loud and singing clear
From many angels winging
Through the vault...

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Deliver me into blue oh ocean blue and glide me through your waters blue
Sail me to the waves of calm waters in silence, motion me to your waters 
as the foam gathers round the edges...

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O ever changing sky, blue-gray and maudlin
your mood and unsettled ways, meld with mine.
Clouds seem but blemishes upon horizons
as weary as the soot smudged cheeks of urchins.
Bruised in hues at once fresh with pain and...

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Swing me my love, until I reach the 
rainbow in the sky,
As long I have touched the clouds 
that move across the vault of heaven.
Swing me my love, so that I can see
the beauty of...

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Where a newborn star lights 
the vault of heaven under the sky 
sapphire, high! 

You can find it there,
Not the product of a god or some such! 

But, man in his madness brings annihilation 
to...

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Oh, Death where is your ring?
How many more moons will crown the vault of Heaven
Ere’ your folded, flesh-starved fingers
Surround bells that toll

Will you approach, hearing my cries
Rising from the depths of despair
Begging for you specter
Longing...

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In life’s incessant din
As I search for peace within
Lone spaces I desire
And stillness I adore
Then silence is my mate
And noise is what I hate

Closing my eyes to the outer space
A window opens to my inner...

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Relishing a dream of voyage;
though the sky lit by the glory of rays,
my eyes squinted at the ray
fluttering my lashes says,
not now,don't wake me now.

Impeccable sunlight splattering
on to the window
making a tiny purslane buds to...

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fear not the nothing world 
gutters scoff at humble men 
candle less in empty chasms 
naked flesh and broken ken 

seeking heart, fulcrum of worlds 
bound deep in settled dust 
dry bones rasp'd against the...

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Star of the Sea, dolorous and Byzantine,
throw your royal blue cloak over me,

She who weeps, La Llorona in Kahlo’s Casa Azul, paint my heart
gold under a prehistoric cobalt blue vault of heaven,

The blue! The blue!...

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I shift the car into drive 
it slides into the vast 
mystery of night 
far down the road passes
A road less traveled by the masses 
A dark vault of heaven encompasses 
as sleep drifts 
stars...

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The beauteous moon lustres amongst glowing
celestial fires in the vault of heaven.
Shining for you. 
You with your gifted ink flowing 
on a white abyss, your thoughts pure and unstained.
Painterly with colours of the heart that...

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An amber moon rises...
Hanging at the Edge of the World.
Against that oily old black sky;
Heaven's Infinite Stage.

Its Grace is old and precise.
A curious, hue of Cyclopean pyres,
slicing the Waning Orb, high!

It emerges to start the...

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A grey cloud in holes
flew in the sky alone,
headed for its dole
all the time along.

Brilliant sunlight spots
fell onto the ground.
Jumped as little balls,
run as a greyhound.

With the insects brittle
rushed along the meadow,
an’ there a May...

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The dark of the night sky: clear, unlimited space
Lights and a bright white moon, of clouds no trace
The mood suddenly changes, the lights are faded
The vault of heaven is raided, the azure invaded

Realization in a...

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He towers as tall as the tallest tree,
wide as the lateral branches extend,
black eyes from unplumbed depth of shifting sea. 
His breath, fire behind clouds strength to suspend 
or expel like a dragon's reservoir.
He has...

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An alabaster sundog dangles
In the blue vault of heaven. 
Great expectations lie at my feet.
The horizon holds much promise.
It feels like God's divine benediction 
To meet a brand new dawn
In this birth month of mine.
At...

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