Perfuming Poems

Summer Scents

...Each mote of dust that floats airborne
eddies on the light cool balmy breeze
ushered from wide open window
fragrancing the house with summer scents.

Eddies on the light cool balmy breeze,
posi...

A Beautiful Spring Day

...“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party.' ” —Robin Williams

The early sunrise peaks in bright red crimson rays
Nature is delivering Spring gifts in many ways
Fresh Lilac blooms are opene...

Sweet Surprises of Spring

...Spring unveils its sweet surprises, 
Perfuming the air with blooming reprises. 
Blossoms dance in the wind's tender hold, 
Whispering secrets of warmth untold.
Sunlight spills like liquid gold, 
...

Moonstone Melodies

...Rainbow moonstone celestial
adularescence, transforming milky way white, 
pale azure luster to an electric sapphire 
Luminescence consistent beauty 
Never ending, blending its cadence 
with ...

Sappho Translations IV

...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch

Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t...

For Those Who Love

...Enchanted was I with a cloying scent...
whiffs of wild magnolia
mingled with the woodsy tang
of lemon verbena perfuming the air
Like Samson's strength, the sun's threads of gold
were clipped...

An Apology

...For all the times I snapped at you
When I could have spoken more gently,
Or a whisper would have sufficed
To send the message across;
When I grew impatient, and my irritation 
Showed through and...

Perfuming the Spirit

...
Crude stones should be tossed into the stream
to experience the hobby of life-
the art of loving everything anything...
to be exposed to all the fiery scribbles that come with it.


But fleck...

Hardship and Hope

...Dare I dream of hope in a world that's self consuming, 
and dare I dream of a home where hearts are always blooming. 
Peaceful the mind would be in a land I am assuming, 
but hardship is what we f...

Nuance of Spring

...I beckon nature to play her Symphony of Spring
when everything comes alive, revived once more.
When resident avian will have a chorus as backup, 
perched along limbs and branches of aged oaks,
ar...

Chinese translations Li Bai

...Li Bai translations

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by Li Bai
translation/interpretation by Michael...

The Live-in -- Part 2 of 3

...She here elbowed past me stomping, pausing not (although me whomping
With her wildly swinging handbag – five kilograms, if not more).
Cackling brusquely in a lather, that I should her baggage gathe...

Rose Meadow

...Both enchanting and beautiful you are, my Juliet Rose 
sitting in a rose meadow you never decompose 
With exceptional health and vigor you bloom in rare 
you really are quite exuberant, you really...

Seen In Her Visions - Roman Priestess's

...Femina spiritus.
Breezy skirted.
There above it; in name of Spring
World, perfuming.
Of rose, iris embroidered
Back and forth sway.
In who's temple, to Flora's own
Prayful wait shown....

Nightmares In Paradise

...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 sacrifice
attraction suffocates and smell...

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