Flower Snow Poems

These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others....

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We...

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snow
no more
warmer days
birds are singing
squirrels scampering
pretty flowers blooming
kids playing and having fun
lawn mowers are humming away
looks like spring has sprung into color
spring is the very...

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mid january
spring crocus carpet blooming
unseen under snow...

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snow stains an iced haze,
as poinsettia's dreams waltz ~ 
ruby elegance...

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The white out doors is covered with fluffy snow, 
the cold winds will swirl and blow.
The pretty flowers in my garden will not grow,
there is...

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Winter's frosty heart still feels the frost's burn
Of the vacancy of color beneath Her eyes—
Now it's just white unconscious cells that turn

The sun to a...

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The weather turns white
A sign of Spring, blossoming 
Crocuses in Snow



[based on "Crocuses in Snow"
painting by Olena Kishkurno]...

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Bleak February,
masquerading as the month of love,
though no redeeming qualities are born in you.

No purple berry
nor fuchsia flower blooming brightly,
just sighing earth between pale moons...

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Summertimes sunshine, melts alpines snowline ~  waters ice cold, crystalline.

              ...

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Living in Florida where flowers throughout the year routinely grow
I was intrigued by a picture from up north…
someone painted flowers on the snow.

It was there…I...

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shrinking snow banks shout
anticipate anthesis!
creation wakes up...

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January…new year, new me.
Met you and now I’m happy. 
We watched the ball drop and kissed at midnight.


My February Valentine
hearts and flowers because you’re mine
as...

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Sans seed - it’s not Spring now - green grass concealed.
Cute, cuddly happiness with floppy ears.
White rabbits leap, in the fluffy snow field,
when the zephyr...

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I was surfing the internet this morning…and among the stories in a world of woe…
there on the page before me…someone posted a picture of a...

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