Autumn Lullaby Poems

Listen to the wind, sighing gently –
Intimate as the moan from an oak,
Crackling, groaning, yet breathing light
From the soul of summer…
As it fades beneath autumn’s...

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Dear Fall, amaze us with your colors warm
the brilliant carmine, peach, and tangerine.
Weave a batik with more delicate charm 
that glows and glints like lustrous...

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These are my English translations of songs sung by Dimash Kudaibergen.

This is my translation of one of my favorite Dimash Kudaibergen songs, the French song...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I Cannot Remember My Mother
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
I cannot remember my mother,
yet sometimes in the middle of my playing
a melody...

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Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep unaware of the nightingale's call
while the dew-laden lilies lie
listening, 
glistening...
this is their...

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Autumn Lullaby 

Peaceful moments drifting by
As slumber takes its cue
Sweet dreams come to pacify
This quiet twilight view

Restful sleep, my evening prayer
Dear child, don’t you cry
For...

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The gilded leaves of Autumn sigh-		   
   their velvet green has vanished now.	  
They miss sweet Summer's lullaby;	  
...

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Today the mist rules, stolen horizon
in a merge of sea and dank air, sky
confiscated, parcelled in a grey 
patination like macular degrade.

Fields and village prematurely...

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Shades of yellow, orange and red
Fallen leaves much widespread
A sunset sky all shades of rose
Afternoon skies with arched rainbows
During this time my love I met
Much...

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Early autumn on the rise against the night sky
two silhouette, black against the clouds of stars
one sits riding sideways upon an ass 
while another walk...

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Down here I sit as the moon rises high
Melodies float on the air
Songs of affection rain down from the sky
Oh how I wish I were...

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Dear Summer’s done and early.
As autumn breeze is coming,
its breath of coolness brushes on the cheek.
Our friend, the sun, is hiding,
and rain outside is strumming
a...

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Do you believe in magic she asked with a smile
 On that magical summer day when we first met
Abracadabra was how she cast her spell
...

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