Translation Poems - Poems about Translation

... Whistling air burning fire running water, waiting earth... water with earth, clay, water with air, foam, fire with water, water very warm... Air with air, flute, earth with earth......Read the rest...

...Sharon by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15 apologies to Byron I. Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks, dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight; I have seen your shadow creep through eeri......Read the rest...

...Even though, remember so Even though, remember so If along the way, the journey meanders a far Even though, remember so. If the ancient love, dimmed in low A distant fade out, underneath the l......Read the rest...

...These are poems about storms, poems about squalls, poems about tempests... Dark-bosomed clouds pregnant with heavy thunder ... the water breaks —Michael R. Burch Squall by Michael R......Read the rest...

...Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under th......Read the rest...

...Today is Wednesday, and the sun rises with the certainty of a life half-lived, a life daring to dance on the edge without plummeting into the abyss. I sip my hazelnut coffee, nutty as my long......Read the rest...

...Epigrams V Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry? —Michael R. Burch Teach me to love: to fly beyond sterile Mars to percolating Venus. —Mic......Read the rest...

... A few words whispered low That found a life in afterglow For what is left is all irritation Not truth but an idle orientation So as the pages are turned In what truth found do we yearn A......Read the rest...

... Written: June 12, 2024, For Constance la France Contest Quote "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Translation" While we're talking, envi......Read the rest...

...Originally written in Japanese Bara Bara no utsukushi-sa musei no kanashimi ochi ai no kukyo ato Translation : Roses The beauty of roses The silence sadness of falling The emptin......Read the rest...

...NB This is not a literal translation of the famous choir "Va Pensiero" from the Nabbucco, but just what I felt as when many, many years ago I was in a choir and sang this lovely aria. ***********......Read the rest...

...Cauliflower- A translation from Ashif Entaz Robi Men may get possessed with ghosts, mine was a scope to cope with cauliflower. For an uncertain grief, I tried to brief with a rhyme that day On a wi......Read the rest...

...DANTE TRANSLATIONS Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch In Beatrice I beheld the outer boundaries of blessedness.—Dante, loose tr......Read the rest...

... You and your pliant touch lit me up, there my diva, morn. After the shower, your wet hair and your braid, in trying untangling Humble effort, down to earth I rush to thee, my open palm , water......Read the rest...

...No body killed me, in our lives of Odyssey No body killed me, in our lives of Odyssey - they are no longer to be seen There are crows in abundance around this balcony- yet, the tired one I knew ......Read the rest...