Carob Poems - Poems about Carob

Lost Love

...(Note: taken from a diary of a young lady)
 
In memoriam of Jose` Maria
aged twenty, drowned.
 
I lounge on an uneven stone
under the uneasy shade 
of an ancient carob tree,
away from the hot...

after rain

...After Rain
The audacious sun finally showed up, and green was
the winter landscape, I also saw the sun set just behind
the carob tree, where the almond tree first blossom,
asleep under a carpet o...

epson salt

...Is it Epson Salt?
All those nice villas along the coast are empty save for stray cats
and those too poor to live inland because the sea stinks like
bouillabaisse gone off. Marine life and sea plan...

the Indian elephant

...The Indian elephant


I knew of an Indian elephant who worked at a circus 
on an act where unhappy animals sit up and beg 
and sad clowns who know they are pathetic dance
one day, the elephant ...

Randomly Yours

...strewn thoughts 



The skinny dog
snoozes on the graveyard's lawn
at ease with the stillness of the night
The fruit of the carob tree 
looks like a cotton pickers hand 
on an autumnal beach...

Eyes Like Yours Set All Apart

...Set smoke, so sweet, so delicate
Something fuliginous, so intricate
Ocher bronze is all that I can see
You're beautiful, a dime to me
Spheres of the purist maple syrup
Sums them up; affectionate...

A New Language

...The new language

It was late August, on a glaringly hot day, when I felt dizzy
went to sit on a gigantic carob tree full of beans on thick leaves 
to sit in its cooling shade; it was pitch dark ...

Green Leaves On Trees

...Green leaves on trees

The tall carob trees that bear long oblong fruit
black as the hands of a Gambian, sweet as sight 
of the snow-clad mountain reaching the blue sky 
when lost for weeks in t...

A Mules Dream

...A mule’s dream

A farmer was ploughing the field
his tractor was pink in the idyllic landscape
He ran out of diesel and went to get some more
at the nearest petrol station
A cloud descended, wr...

Devilish Desire

..."If I could," quoth the cherub. 
      "I would ~ 
         eat carob"...

Dawn of Man

...Dawn of man

Out of the night came the dawn a mild breeze 
blow petal off a rhododendron, a magic carpet 
on a whitewashed wall sunlight and shadow dance.
The dogs were still asleep, the cock ha...

Starry Love

...Time moves on forward fast,
Like rapids hurtling unheedingly headlong
Towards a sheer deep cascade,
And plummet down below in a mighty roar
To flow relentlessly towards the infinite sea
Drift...

Nature's Way

...If I were to stray from the straight road,
meander along twisted olden paths
let me not see an ordered place
like some new grown garden
designed by some modern nursery
to whom you must pay a ...

Sleeping Sun

...Sleeping sun

The audacious sun finally showed up
and green was the winter landscape; I also saw
where the sun sets, behind the carob tree
soundly and snug under a carpet of wildflowers
the sun...

A Wolf In Haiku Clothing

...I listen to the sighing
of the wind, as I sit
in the cool shade 
of a sprawling carob tree,
wondering if Basho,
in heavenly abode, 
next to Elysian Fields,
is mumbling agitatedly
under his br...

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