Boxwood Poems - Poems about Boxwood

My Gemini Garden

...A walk in wonderland.
    Sun kissed shades of green.
        Ferns as delicate as Chantilly lace.
            Ornamental grasses dance in the breeze
                  Ghostly grey herbaceous wit...

BELLS RINGING

...
     
                         Bells ringing off and on
                          or all on a sudden !
                       Bells to alert ! Whatever :
         Call of classes or shows to st...

Xyst

...Doric columns supported the xyst
with ancestral plane trees and boxwood
lining the spaces between and whispering
the secrets of ancient polished stone.

The promenade led to the gymnasiu...

Sweet Childhood Memories

..."recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
                       Quote by _Samuel Taylor Coleridge (from his writings)

I fondly recall the in...

Winter To Enter

...WINTER

          Winter showing snowy splendor
              elating elegant whiteness
              in calm cold and chilly wonder.
              Silvery snow shines to impress.
             ...

Winter Snow

...Winter Snow 
    
            Sunrays dazzling shining on winter snow
            Snow-white is a special color to glow  
                   Snowcaps on mountain tops.
                   Boxwood...

Winter Enters

...WINTER ENTERS   
 
              Winter showing snowy splendor
              elating elegant whiteness
              in calm cold and chilly wonder.
         
             Snow falling as dropl...

Maze

...PATHS were bordered by boxwood hedges
softened with fern, surrounding GARDEN edges.
Light floral scents perfumed the morning air
and sweet alyssum lined walkways; pea graveled.
I strolled...

Paul Verlaine Translation: Spleen

...Spleen
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The roses were so very red;
The ivy, impossibly black.

Dear, with a mere a turn of your head,
My despair’s flood...

Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My Heart

...Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”)
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town;
Heavy languor and dark
Dr...

Fp Monsoon

...blossoms
of
snowdrops
      flood forth,
      stormblown
woods
and
moors
        from
        morn
        to 
        noon
cool
brooks
pools
&ponds
       knolls
     of cottonwood...

The Wind In the Pines 2

...("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


2.   The Beach, After Dark 

The coa...

Christmas

...Christmas

           A zure Sky rejoiced and glanced on Green Earth.
           B ethlehem Star glistened, glittered on Jesus’s birth.
           C hristmas roses are exchanged in spirit of frat...

Winter Dodoitsu

...Winter Dodoitsu

          Boxwood hedge hides shy snow drops.
         Birch with ivory-white bark
         thawed heart of barren winter.
            Little warmth, My Dear !

   11/09/15
 ...

Butterfly Kisses

...Butterfly Kisses

I am here strolling in the cool wood
as I take a seat drinking in nature
I espy some movement in the boxwood
going over to look I see a feeler

There to my delight by chance
is a co...

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