Season Summer Poems

Summer is not a season
It’s a state of mind
It’s the time of every reason
Where everything easy you'll find
The days are longer
The nights are filled 
With...

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The scent of wood smoke in the chilly wind
 almost brings the remembrance of warmth.
My extremities no longer feel the bite of Icy air, 
numb,...

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Enjoy a lively walk among stinging nettles in spring,  
Skip along and listen to your heart sing.  
Dash through fields of dandelions in...

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The sun disappears much, much later, an hour later to be exact.
This translates into having more daylight and a longer afternoon,
To watch the strolling peacocks...

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French poems by Charles d’Orleans in modern English translations by Michael R. Burch



Traitorous Eye
by Charles d’Orleans
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Traitorous eye, what’s new?
What lewd...

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Love for all seasons
For multitudinous reasons
Love all season long
Like a nouveau song
Fall, winter
Spring and summer
The beautiful sparrows are singing
And the children are happily playing.

Love for...

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September nights, reflecting moon’s soft glow,
Whispering in wind’s song afore leaves start to blow.

Haunting tales spun from the wood’s still blush,
Gentle moments reveal the Creator’s...

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Summer came and went too fast, but I still had a blast!
I wish this warm weather could last forever.
Feeling the sun's rays during these lazy...

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Autumn Equinox

Autumn Equinox has fallen out of Summer;
Cooling heat horizontal breeze ever so lovely, autumn;
Embrace me season harvest;
Kiss me soul gentle caresses;
All that I...

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Solely the summer’s heat dissipates,
Temperatures at night cooling daily;
The promises of the ants to gather,
Gatherings awaits the time that so last
Tunneling burrows interphases space;
 Burrowing...

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Sun’s rays have weakened lately. Cool winds blow,
Effectively allaying summer heat.
Perhaps fall lovers should be patient, though.
There’ll be more hot days. Summer’s not complete.

Enthusiasm reigns...

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Sailboat helm at the quay
Serene feeling makes me cry
Sea breeze wafting in the air
Summer season sun is here.

Solitude morning feeling calm
Sense of freedom here I...

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They gather on the sandy shore-
confused and squawking as they stray.
Their former meals are seen no more;
from side to side, they look each way.

Confused and...

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Beneath the sunset snug upon blue hills
the stalks of corn a standing army gold   
but long, their shadows fall like swords that stills
a...

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A SEASON DISCREET

Summer comes and goes, I know
Perhaps I just missed it, this year
A season that hardly differs here
Slow to appear, and is soon to...

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