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Acacias Poems - Poems about Acacias

SIX WOMEN PATIENTS

...   SIX WOMEN PATIENTS 

Six broken women lay down to rest
brown bodies all in a row
six long stories to tell with jest
six smiles with a million tears
race around ward rele...
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Categories: acacias, character, emotions, environment, feelings,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberLike a lighthouse defying the darkness with an unwavering light

...Like a lighthouse defying the darkness with an unwavering light,
I've grown accustomed to sleeping with my eyes open, watching the edge of dreams,
afraid of being surprised by the veil of silence t...
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Categories: acacias, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe carriage with Mr Mihai Eminescu glides silently, unseen

...The carriage with Mr. Mihai Eminescu glides silently, unseen,
Through the whispers of Iashi's stones, wrapped in its own mystery.
How long and tiring is the journey through boundless realms,
Emerg...
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Categories: acacias, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe carriage with Mr Mihai Eminescu

...The carriage with Mr. Mihai Eminescu
Is heard passing through the streets of Ia?i.
But, Lord, what a long journey it has made,
How pale and weary he seems to be!
And what is happening, Lord, in t...
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Categories: acacias, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFountain Within

...On this day when
One walks outside 
The fumes are coming off the roads
The mountains appear full of smoke
Dust is flying around seeking relief 
Many seek  for shade but none found 
Oh, ye cloud...
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Categories: acacias, fate,
Form: I do not know?



Premium MemberRhapsody Recitation

...clothed in drama
    a pentecost poetic
chiastic
  three stanzas long

the Spirit outpoured
     in the Day of the Lord

portents predicted&
                    prescribed

called out
   ...
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Categories: acacias, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVerse Freed To Rhapsodise

...clothed in drama
    a pentecost poetic
chiastic
  three stanzas long

the Spirit outpoured
     in the Day of the Lord

portents predicted&
                    prescribed

called out
   ...
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Categories: acacias, christian, word play,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberRhapsody In Flight a Song of Pentecost

...clothed in drama
    a pentecost poetic
chiastic
  three stanzas long

the Spirit outpoured
     in the Day of the Lord

portents predicted&
                    prescribed

called out
   ...
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Categories: acacias, anniversary, birthday, christian,
Form: Verse

Silent One - Poem Inspired By His Recent Write

...“SILENT ONE” – inspired poem
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Musicians unite for a cause, no cause celebre
But small nursing homes not on maps, or Frail Care facilities -
Magically coaxing ancient responses and memories, 
An...
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Categories: acacias, appreciation, care, caregiving, earth,
Form: Alliteration

Singing With the Birds

...Weaver birds near Escombe, where I was raised ...
Doing their weaving with palm leaves, cut precisely
With little beaks, for bare Acacias across the yard ...
Now nests like fruit: wide downturned ...
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Categories: acacias, appreciation, atheist, faith, fate,
Form: Blank verse

Ode To My Better Man

...I
The rains have washed the air
and landscapes glow in a soothing summer green
that perfectly tints the blue skies.
Grasses are dancing a samba of love and country,
Woodpeckers are flocking with...
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Categories: acacias, beauty, cheer up, color,
Form: Ode

Fairyland

...There is a rocky path,
small fields on the left
and a mysterious forest on the right,
a fairyland.

Cold creek among the trees
running towards the lake.
A red short wall decorated with nettles...
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Categories: acacias, childhood, magic,
Form: Free verse

A Brief Tango

...- a brief tango -

I see from this pestering pedestal,
And what’s that I see?
Gazelles and antelopes of the Savannah
Or the deceits of a mooting brain?

I see them – a careful pick of a genera...
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Categories: acacias, adventure, break up, divorce,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberWalk With Me

...Come take a walk with me
let us stroll the savannah
I want to show you the beauty
to introduce you to East Africa

A land seeped in dark history and mysteries
where once the Tembo roamed in their tho...
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Categories: acacias, africa, magic,
Form: Epic

Voices

...When the sun goes down bleeding
beyond the hills yonder,
I will meet you under
the acacias.

As a souvenir I will keep
your lips in my books for history.
As a gift I will give you
my tears. 

This de...
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Categories: acacias, art,
Form: ABC

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