Spanish Poems

   They snugly tied 

            a lovers knot

                   ...Read More

Do you out there in the darkness revise your work?  
I usually do
Rhyme once rules 
Not in these days
Some prefer the old style of poetry 
Some enjoy modern work
Some like poetry of their ethnic group
Like some like novels of...Read More

The French are famous for great food and wine, 
the Eiffel tower and the guillotine.
The English are famous for cheddar,
Shakespeare, Newton, and tabloid chatter.
Germans down tons of beer and wurst,
and manage to look none the worse.
With Italians it’s pizza and...Read More

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 water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp tightly
like a cornucopia, every day,...Read More

Trucker Duckie

His P.I.C handle is:
TRUMP DOGG

Road incorrecto políticamente 
rolls his 18-wheeler Hogg

Transporting border illegals is the 
			  Primary cache crop haul
Outfoxing blue Smoky Bears
			is his favorite Duckie call

Just like the Big Don,
dodging the Law
is an artful peddle scam

Switch-the-crate bait...Read More

Sandals
On a golden sandy beach.
On a dusty dry footpath with warm air 
around your feet.

Music.
Spanish guitars play sounds so sweet.
The evening light is warm and friendly, 
the night sky blends into the ocean as 
the waves lap at your feet.

A...Read More

The colonial mentality
Penetrated our mind and heart; 
We as people felt inferior
Race after the raiders depart.

Such invaders like the Spanish
Had influenced our attitude; 
We had followed their tradition, 
Thinking that those customs were good.

After we were colonized by
The United States...Read More

(If you Google English to Spanish.
Copy and paste. Hopefully this
poem will take on a different
linguistic shape from off the page.)


My muse

I use you

But need you

To breathe with kiss

This and these

That make poetry

And my heart beat


transform translate
translate transform


Mi musa

Te uso

Pero te...Read More

To say today has been a strange day would be an understatement. It started off this morning when I went into the den where our eldest cat, Paint, was meowing up a storm. I petted her head a few times...Read More

The Masked " You Might Know Me"
Made his in ring debut, Mangeged
by " Gone Tour Me" he challenged
Dale B. Finer. Out classed by Y.M.K.M.
Finer sucummed to a Grall Gamers
Bearhug .

In what's said to be 
A world class series of
Manuvers, 
"The...Read More

The Masked " You Might Know Me"
Made his in ring debut, Mangeged
by " Gone Tour Me" he challenged
Dale B. Finer. Out classed by Y.M.K.M.
Finer sucummed to a Grall Gamers
Bearhug .

In what's said to be 
A world class series of
Manuvers, 
"The...Read More

 
The sun upon my face blinds me as my boat rocks gently
through the rolling swells that lap against the hull.
The sound of the droning engine mesmerizes my mind
bringing a dreaminess to this bright cool winter morning.
Watching the shore, the...Read More

I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates between ice and fire.

I love...Read More

A Spanish translation of my poem
A Random Moment

Matamoros, 2 p.m.

Me siento en esta mesa
como lo he hecho muchas veces
empunando un boligrafo
con insuficiencias de pensamientos y palabras --
fuera de lugar
Todo el rato
los dos perros Guero y Princessa
duchar sus afectos
lamiendo y acariciando
a...Read More

(By Diego Rodriguez de Silva y  Valázquez, 1599-1660)


Kings are not infallible
when exercising power or taste
(though they would deny both).
Which explains why he, Le Roi Soleil 
himself, blundered so disgracefully 
when he put Valázquez’s portrait 
of the little Spanish princess...Read More

What is the purpose of your visit young man?
	
        I heard that you have the best marmalade in the world

Well we do import oranges but you look a bit foreign to us

	I am...Read More

Pedro was a mouse
A mouse who didn't eat cheese
He would like to have a choice
Of anything he pleased

He was a Spanish mouse
You can tell that by his name
He liked all kinds of things
Not everything the same

He liked eating crumbs of...Read More

Senor, soy bender cido
Oh! Senor a sombrero
MI DIOS MI DIOS
Quiero todo para ti, eres MLS
Senor Dios

Yes entidonde me
Encuentro

You confieso
Ro el mundo
Soy bendecido y sere
Escuchado

Y quiero ser testino
En todas Las Costas, eresmil
Todo
 I want to be a witness bless 
To tell...Read More

El amor es feliz el amor es divertido
El amor es liberador
el amor es el amor

amo
Nos encanta
Ella ama
Él ama...Read More

I first saw her face framed by Spanish moss
Beneath the oaks of Georgia -
Beauty beyond compare

Her golden hair crowned the deepest blue eyes
That stared beyond my presence -
Her lips frozen and cold 

Fascinated I continued to stare
Her eyes at last...Read More

Impossible mission, nonetheless
eschatological, diabolical, critical...
dire straits betokens armageddon.

Come Tuesday, November 3, 2020
mandatory voting obligation to oust
horrible malevolent commander in chief.

Spanish and English writing on border wall
bespeaks impending apocalyptic windfall
weapons of mass destruction concomitant ashfall
brinkmanship ticks doomsday clock, hence the call
muster...Read More

sun hat
on a yellow peg

semaphore light
shape-shifting
on spanish tiles

buttermilk blinds
flap
broken slats

a trapped sky hums
lazy crumb songs

light spreads sticky wings
over marmalade bread

...Read More

WHATEVER  HAPPENED  TO  WHITLEY  BAY ?


Promenade without shelter
Glasgow accents on wet afternoons
Spanish City helter skelter
Candy floss and balloons

Hissing over the empty shore
Each lone beach grain 
Children’s spades are no more
Now at work in Spain


14  October...Read More

A guy down the street who knows Spanish
He’s homeless and needs something to eat, a sandwich
A drink of milk or juice
Something to fill him up

I can’t wait to see the promised land
Where pain and sorrow never enter in
Where God’s light...Read More

The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea.
Didn’t Barlow tell the King,
Was reserved for England.

The routes ‘round the Capes
Were long in treacherous waters
Hampered by...Read More