Cereus Poems - Poems about Cereus

...These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave. Moonflower by Michael R. Burch after Robert Hayden Marveling, we at last beheld the achieved flower— both aw......

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...A shining example, when shattering insight becomes deleterious Mindless, yet finds itself turned out inside; all along mysterious, I paused, reflecting; seeing past times, versions of delirious, ......

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...Serenity is nature-induced bliss, bliss of gentle color-kiss. Kiss that sets the soul alight, alight in its ecstatic flight. Flight like birds upon the wing, wing away in song of ......

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...Sonnets LII-LX The Endeavors of Lips by Michael R. Burch How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak in love’s strangely lit beds, where th......

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...Milky-Way celestial garb Oceans white, floating above Shining cheer of moonlit sky Heavenly smile, so divine Twinkles on incandescent arc Flirting winks of teasing stars Dancing merrily o......

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...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......

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...To Flower by Michael R. Burch When Pentheus ["grief'] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysus, tore him apart (Euripide......

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...A cosmonaut called Anatoli was diagnosed with acute E.coli When he became somewhat delirious, they thought it was Bacillus cereus When plated out under a prism, it looked instead like Botulism Hav......

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...the queen cactus blooms for one gorgeous night and withers ( March......

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...Princess of the night, Kissed by the romantic breeze: Moon glows with envy.......

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...For some occasions, when she wants to appear attentive, her eyes are Morning Glory brilliant blue, unwinding for sunrise, heliotropic, closing at dusk, wilting into the dark. As light fa......

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...Would you still be my friend if I told you I loved you? That after all these years you were always the one How watching you smile—is like watching the sun rise Beautiful like a night-flowering cereus......

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...Cereus was in bloom in nightwashed desert, sand was cool, it tipped off the contour drain, a river sent its compliments. If the death was at home, like an estranged lover, will you open the door in ......

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...Cereus was in bloom in nightwashed desert, sand was cool, it tipped off the contour drain, a river sent its compliments. If the death was at home, like an estranged lover, will you open the doo......

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