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POETRY BY STEVEN TRANSLATEUR

STEVEN

Steven Translateur’s work has appeared in a variety of publications including Beakful, Mind in Motion, and Next Phase.

SCARY MANSION

Scary mansion at a corner in the middle of nowhere.
You can enter it if you dare.
Once owned by a talented magician
who was married to a beautician.
Abandoned when they died in a car crash.
Put up for sale then bought for cash
by an absentee landlord
who was committed to an insanity ward.
Spells and booby traps fill the edifice
thus haunted by a type of death of kiss.
Rumored to have a basement filled with buried treasure
inaccessible by any measure.
Emeralds, diamonds, gold nuggets, and rubies
waiting to be found by any loony
brave enough to enter its lair.

THE FLOWER SHOP

Daisies and zinnias and carnations galore
adorn the shelves and showcases of the store.
Eve Elysien was the bouquet host—
to her floral expertise, we give a toast.
Thank her for making bar-mitzvahs, confirmations, birthdays, engagements, and weddings memorable
and making our existences livable.
Petals of love and comradely plucked from the top—
he/she loves me yes or loves me not!
A jamboree of myriad colors and textures,
on floral arrangement, Eve could give lectures!
Push your love for someone over the ledge 
and give yourself the romance edge!
Stop by any time day or night
to the shop that shall make your life bright!

CYCLIC COMET

Searing, violet solar cloud missile,
soaring to and from our majestic star;
roaring past earth, brightening every mile,
enlightening we that anything pretty can go far.

Round and round the suns array for eons
and revered by generations of minds—
stopping us from thinking ourselves peons;
a pendulum in the heavens keeping century’s time.