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Lotus Poems - Poems about Lotus

Chinese Female Poets: English Translations V
CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red” by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch After swinging and kicking lasciviously, I get off to rouge my palms. Like dew on a delicate flower, perspiration soaks my thin dress. A new guest enters and my stockings flop, my hairpins fall out. Pretending embarrassment, I...

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Categories: lotus, flower, for her, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Like crystal tears, soft petals dance and gleam, While dewdrops stitch stars on morning's silken dream. Each blossom spins gold wisdom from earth's mud, As heaven's jewels birth dawn's awakening bud. Bud blooms like the sun breaking through midnight's veil. Mud cradles pearls where phoenix tales prevail. Dream waters mirror souls...

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Categories: lotus, flower,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Seed in the Dark
Lotus flowers grow from black mud. This is what Aaro sees, standing at the edge of a pond full of lotuses in the garden. Beauty rises from darkness. Pink petals open above murky water, green leaves spread like hands on the surface. The roots know secrets the flowers will never tell, how strength comes from places without light or colour. What was buried...

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Categories: lotus, baby, birth, dark, flower,
Form: Free verse
No Pain, No Poetry
Life's beauty is hidden in strife, For contrast alone gives meaning to life. No darkness, no dawn, No battle, no crown. No winter, no spring, No cage, no soaring wing. No rain, no bloom, No silence, no tune. No fear, no courage, No risk, no voyage. No fire, no gold, No spirit, no soul. No doubt, no belief, No sorrow, no relief. No loss, no gain, No clouds, no rain. No...

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Categories: lotus, 4th grade, courage, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member like the lotus
love grew where there was none from the depths of darkness when suddenly there it was idyllic serenity in bloom and our hearts felt soothed AP: 1st place 2025 Posted on February 23, 2025...

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Categories: lotus, beautiful, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Joy, dewdrops as if on lotus leaf
Joy’s like dewdrops on lotus leaf If you know not life’s subtle brief. It’s dawn if I open eyes, If not, a darkling night, The wise whose sun would not rise, There reigns enduring blight All along, life of buts and if, Joy’s like dewdrops on lotus leaf. Life’s echo spreads no far Like haply chirping birds, As footsteps on sands are, As on...

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Categories: lotus, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
When music shall ensue
The step-well water gets when clean And lilies then blossom therein, In drones when bees come to lilies, Ah, music shall madden the bees, (And me by their maddening din!) ______________________ Translation |11.12.2024| music, lily, water/well Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. A man is lost in imagination: this would happen, and...

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Categories: lotus, music, water,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Heart lotus blooms
Now that we have made love and light our mainstay, it matters not if patterns of old surface, since divine bliss magnetism within at play, as Divine Mother, holds us in close embrace. The currents carry us as we surrender, witnessing soul’s ascent in childlike wonder and as such there remains nothing to be done, save breath by breath thus, with God...

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Categories: lotus, spiritual,
Form: Rispetto
Lotus
Lovely lotus Covering the pond Like China ladies Clothe in fine Pink linen. At night, lotus Shimmering glows In the moonlight Heralding great Nymph serenading. Cool day, lotus Captivating beauty Like mermaids Capturing a man's Soul to glory....

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Categories: lotus, beauty, flower, romance,
Form: Free verse
And Then You Rained
Your first touch awakened in me A longing, a lotus A love I once thought dead You stood there and filled My entire sky with only that sole Moonstone look in your eyes The one that told me I was No longer alone on this desolate plain And then something broke free From the dusty shale and quartz Shaped like a heart inside of me As...

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Categories: lotus, love, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
Arms like lovely lotus stem
Known for arms of a lovely lotus stem, Visage of moon’s sleepless silver, Eyes like smiling lilies in lake, And smile of a full moon’s sliver, To win as wife, a woman of such fame, Who’d not greatest of gamble stake? __________________________ Translation |11.08.2024| free verse, woman, beauty, moon, adventure The Sanskrit verse: keertim...

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Categories: lotus, adventure, beauty, moon, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lotus
lotus bloom opens graciously looking skyward a symbol of Zen by Zyrool...

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Categories: lotus, flower, poetry,
Form: Haiku
POTUS from LOTUS
It nigh but happened in the US, LOTUS almost bloomed unto POTUS. If things turn as they do, Ere Trump has any clue, If he loses peace and focus. _________________________ POTUS: President of the United States, LOTUS: (First) Lady of the United States Happenings |02.08,2024| political, USA ...

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Categories: lotus, america, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member In Lotus Bliss
Synthetic is the world we’re living in. Plastic’s life seems timeless; it can’t replace nature’s portraits: skies that leave us breathless, bright swirling leaves, and rustic scenes of grace. To see gold fields - a rainbow overhead - how can any person not feel enthralled? I think of high peaks garlanded by clouds and wild flowers over our landscapes sprawled. Technology offers us...

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Categories: lotus, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kamala Means Lotus Flower
stepp'n down from presidency ~Kamala, de facto nominee Kamala means lotus flower~accent on Ka,' Zen power top of the ticket changed~ but the message remains the same ...

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Categories: lotus, america, character, freedom, history,
Form: Monoku

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