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First Steps Funerals and Nanas Hands

...First Steps Funerals and Nana's Hands 

By Evelyn Aimarie

2 days after my Nana's funeral
My oldest son took his first steps. 
She was my grandmother on my father's side, but more like a mother...

Dawn

...Early, in the pre-dawn hush
I heard the robins sing,
and then a sleepy breeze awoke 
and made the wind chimes ring.
 
Their blended notes in concert sweet 
soon filled the morning air 
as on h...

anagram-- forest haiku

...

palest forest ~

     grows softer in pastel 

 of night
               fall
    

...

Colors of the Morning

...One early autumn morning, before the sun awoke, 
before the moon had disappeared, or any robin spoke. 
I opened up my window to feel the breezes play 
and let a breath of beauty in before the hect...

Who Guides the Artist?

...
Love comes in myriads of color
from palest lavender sunsets
and softest pink of twilight
to deepest rose of dawn
What guides the artist
in his pure strokes
that adorn
canvas
cloth

Looking For Owls

...
When nightfall dips in palest of gold
I feel a sense of indignity,
  As owl's melody  loses its eloquence
Through the absence of a safe abode;
Where quietude calls for avian coos
    The kind ...

Beneath the Blossom's

...The chill retreats, a whispered thaw,
As spring's sweet breath begins to draw
Life from the earth, with a gentle hand,
Kissing the sleeping, frozen land.

My cherry tree, so stark and bare,
Now...

Perch Bones

...The fillet was supposed to be boneless
but it wasn't
It caught me off guard, midmeal.
Between bites of slaw and baked potato
It wedged in the top of my whiskered throat
there was the palest form...

Forevermore

...

It’s winter here, almost a painful grasp
grey dread, falling like melancholy
over the mountain peaks, gusts
flavored in sips of toasty coffee
lasting all afternoon
speaking to the twilig...

Ukrainian Poetry Translations 2 by Michael R Burch

...Love in Kyiv
by Natalka Bilotserkivets
translation by Michael R. Burch

Love is more terrible in Kyiv
than spectacular Venetian passions,
than butterflies morphing into bright tapers–
winged c...

Petrarch translations into English

...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS

Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind, 
replaced by evil in hi...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch II

...The Fisher
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation by Michael R. Burch

The river swirled and rippled;
nearby an angler lay,
and watched his lure with a careless eye,
like any other day.
Bu...

Painted Brushes

...Ancient painted woodland rushes, 
nature's beauty, painted thrushes, 
homeland under vivid bushes, 
lovely Indian Paintbrushes. 

Deepest, dearest, darkest red, 
scented, softly in my head. 
v...

Sunrise Song

...

 

Hey…psst…wake up! I know it's still dark but will you come with me? Come on…

We tiptoe quietly through the sleeping house and slip our feet into flip-flops, and go out the back do...

POEMS ABOUT SAINTS AND SINNERS

...POEMS ABOUT SAINTS AND SINNERS

Of Seabound Saints and Promised Lands
by Michael R. Burch 

Judas sat on a wretched rock,
his head still sore from Satan’s gnawing.
Saint Brendan’s curragh caug...

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