Seasons Soulmate Poems

Your story breathes again,
In the whispered exhale of falling leaves,
Orange, red, and brown leaves,
Their silent goodbye,
Drifting to the ground,
In a ballet of descent,
And slow dancing,
With...

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We meet, we talk, but I don’t know you.
Your eyes a flash of blue, bits of sky. I don’t
know how it came to be yours,...

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When winter comes it’s very cold
You’re always near for me to hold

In the summer when it’s hot
Your iced sweet tea sure hits the spot

Then fall...

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When our eyes first met, in an evening's glow of twilight
the moon was rising, the world disappeared
I saw only you
we enjoyed a calm gentle merriment
as...

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The air has a burnt flavor 
tonight – I guess, that’s the
taste of grief;  we all breathe 
it in and blow it out differently;...

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On the TV 
Talent getting paid a salary fee 
In control of distributing information 
Monitoring backstage scripted decisions
Dude was inland 
Miles from the ocean sand...

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I heard a new term today,
slow sighed Earth's River,
"spiritual intelligence."

I have become flowingly familiar
with cognitive intelligence,
before that emotional intelligence,
before that contextual intelligence,
similar to climate intelligence
throughout...

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Oh, how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
          My heart with reprieves - the redolent...

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Again, with Adam Robersmith,
Taking It Further emphasizing cooperative value choices
in each compassionate win/win moment
of sacred economic/ecological dialogue,
covenants of non-violent respect for multigenerational 
healthy 
wealthy
robust
resonant
resilient outcomes.

What...

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My bright shining star that gives meaning to ones life.
The rising of the sun at dawn, embedded in the clouds of the sky after the...

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Sweet and breezy
The falling maple leaf
Slow but steady
Fleeting
Real
Blazing in my memory
Like an autumn sunset
But when you
Wake up
The moment's gone
Leaving the warmth
Going cold
In the dim light...

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Translations of Urdu couplets and poems by Momin Khan Momin

Perhaps
by Momin Khan Momin
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
 
The cohesiveness between us, you may remember,...

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At times I wonder,
haven't we ever met before?
The thin ribbon of wind that once passed by,
kissing your chiseled bearded jaw,
hadn't it ever stopped for a...

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In long winters
when curious bears hibernate,

When even those few songbirds left behind
are stoically silent
at their least amorous time,

When uneven bare trees and bushes
retire into aptic
dormant
deep...

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The love we share

There was a time...
I was young and trouble free
Money poured like rain...
washed all over me

Those were the days...
for doing all I could...

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