Best Frangipani Poems

Wondrous frangipani...
      You mesmerize me so.
        Like a fan, I twirl you
      Between my fingertips;
    Striking yellow-white hue!

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A subtle sweet smell

Rises up, hits the nose


Excites the senses

Causes pretty thoughts

In a lost stormy head


As it rises, floats through the air

Magical destiny's and adventures

Are dreamt


Aromas of sweet freedom

New life comes 

As you curiously watch


Take in the glory

It calms yet inspires 


The common the best

But...

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Frangipani Delight

Another drab evening in a menagerie of unfit suitors
And here I am, among the mockingbirds, amused and ashamed
This ancestral ritual of confidence and cougars
A pellucid behavior of the blind curves, drunk blame

The twilight long past and now ripples of new
The immature beauties that thrive...

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It was in the beautifully majestic Florida Keys
Where I visited with my beloved grand-mother
She introduced me to the frangipani with its luscious clusters  
The fragrance was bewitchingly inebriating
Soon I couldn’t distinguish the petals from the butterflies
Twilight had gradually descended without a sound
Till the mockingbirds...

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Flame sires fond flair
Flair climbs the stairs
Stairs in the air


Frame a good name
Name fits the game
Game just the same


Fling joy that swirls
Swirls touch and twirl
Twirl your brave world




Leon Enriquez
04 October 2014
Singapore...

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frangipani

did you imagine I could leave you
trapped in quick drying cement
locked forever on a bed of strangers coral
with only sea spray falling on the reef
to mourn your passing?

no my friend
you're coming back with me
precious cargo safely stowed
freight forward

flight 89 climbed above a shroud of cotton...

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