Sonnet Paradise Poems

What is the meaning of it all?
If I told you, you’d surely bawl.
Cry like a baby, yes you would,
If all of truth you understood.

Truth can...

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"Life being what it is when one dreams of revenge," ... Paul Gauguin

Light seasoning dash a chain last resort
as zephyr courses an edged clement squeeze...

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Than The Grand Illusions Of Those Paradise Shores

I that dares the purple sunlight to ease my soul
splinter and enter this old, discontented heart
all the mistakes,...

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I sit looping nightmares in paradise 
perfuming my skin with rose scented tears; 
My mind keeps replaying my deepest fears;
With you nothing feels like a...

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With the fragrance of immaculate scents
And halos of cherubic hues around;
Divine thoughts whirl inside me and I vent
Sanguine words that unroll knowledge abound

Glimpses of angelic...

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island of palm trees, middle of the sea,
short ride by bamboo boat for you and me,
paradise of birds, bliss, serenity,
desire’s doors to open with lover’s...

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Heaven rouses the yearning heart
To gentle hope that lights the soul
With sweet grace which love does impart
Whispers of joy that make one whole

Ecstasy enlightens dark...

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Incarnations Of What Love's Blessed Paradise Extols

Soft and slow each rising tide that your sweetest loving bring
that lush hush and touch setting eager seeking hearts...

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Our Paradise Advise—My Sweetest Love!
 
My sweetest love hearest thou reverently my advice
My advice is to leave now for our home—in paradise.
Paradise blooming with rainbows...

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Why does it feel like I been doing this for a while
Could I be stuck while things have change 
This was never once my style
Have...

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Flowery scents floating into blue sky,
Windows swinging ajar in speedy burst.
Trees swaying high dancing to wind so dry,
All ready to spew forth fruits of the...

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Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the...

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If You Come to San Miguel
by Michael R. Burch 
 
If you come to San Miguel
before the orchids fall,
we might stroll through lengthening shadows
those deserted...

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I close my eyes and take a deep breath, meditating and drifting away to the lullaby of the ocean. The waves gently clap against the...

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A Liquified Desert

A peacock glissades as a trail triggers,
an ambience of turquoise and chartreuse,
for it sparsely spreads as its glass mirrors,
neath a ceiling stain aquamarine...

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