Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
...Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.
I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The ...
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Categories:
rosebushes, brother, child, childhood, heart,
Form: Free verse
Living Dolls
...I was a successful, fancy dollmaker, but that had not always been the case,
Such as a case for blossoming romance, when spring is budding everyplace.
For in my inexperienced youth, I had seldom g...
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Categories:
rosebushes, beautiful, career, children, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Newmarket
...People and horses
The Newmarket was the oldest market in town
farmers came here selling potatoes and other greenery
Their women-folk sold thick, long underwear
winter can be cold when the Nort...
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Categories:
rosebushes, cinderella, dance, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
A Lullaby For a Suicidal Butterfly
...A lullaby
For the suicidal butterfly
Tracing figure eights on my window panes.
Broken wings,
Torn by thunderstorms
And rosebushes,
Are still beating fruitlessly:
In hope,
Or foolishness,
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Categories:
rosebushes, angst, butterfly, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Brick House
...~~~~~ THEN ~~~~~
How does a house change, though still brick
still imposing ~~~
Same roots below grass, same garage and
cracked garden hosing ~~~
Same dinner bell, same function of rooms
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Categories:
rosebushes, change, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Only When the Cuckoo Sings
...The bursting blossom of a pear tree twist and swirl with a lavishing beauty,
Promising plenty of fruit along each smooth branch and bough delivering all,
Rosebushes red buds burst into leaves with fr...
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Categories:
rosebushes, nature, old, tree, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
Only When the Cuckoo Sings
...The bursting blossom of a pear tree twist and swirl with a lavishing beauty,
Promising plenty of fruit along each smooth branch and bough delivering all,
Rosebushes red buds burst into leaves with fr...
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Categories:
rosebushes, nature, old, tree, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blossom of a Pear Tree
...The bursting blossom of a pear tree twist and swirl with a lavishing beauty,
Promising plenty of fruit along each smooth branch and bough delivering all,
Rosebushes buds red buds burst into leaves wi...
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Categories:
rosebushes, nature, old, tree, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Roses In a Pink Vase
...Unread and scattered letters of a chilly and lonely Fall,
as if a sudden whirlwind had come in and gone mad,
ravaging everything...but leaving my roses in a pink vase intact:
a waned memory of a l...
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Categories:
rosebushes, sad
Form: Quatrain