Conch Sound
...Conch Sound
the garden of North Andros
the place where my father's navel string lay
The settlement sits on the vicinity of the waterfront
with old Bahamian vessels piloted by One Eyed Jacob
drif...
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Categories:
buttonwood, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Bonsai: the Greening Oriental Art
.../em>, for Japanese Yew!
So, don’t confuse a plant with the Ibex
Ilex serrata – that’s Christmas Holly
Or Japanese Winterberry
Butterflies, butternuts, a Buttinsky?
Shut your eyes, it’s Conocarpus erectus
(Pastor here is only saying "Buttonwood" in Latin)
Meanwhile in nature, the pines of Japan
Are dwarfed like bottled thunder:
Pinus thunbergiana
The Christmas Spirit is perennial in China (?)
Schinus terebin...
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Categories:
buttonwood, art, flower, garden, humor,
Form: Didactic
The Buttonwood
...One day while wandering with a friend
Down country road to river’s bend,
A wooden bridge o’er country mile,
Alone, we sat there for a while.
‘Twas in our youth this late September
Two souls to...
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Categories:
buttonwood, autumn, memory, nature, september,
Form: Light Verse