Two Love Poems From al-Andalus
...I
In my palace,
I have built a hundred fountains.
Though they play all day,
none can match
the sparkle of her eyes.
II
In my garden,
I have created paradise.
Alas, the chaffinch
sings...
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Categories:
chaffinch, garden, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Field of Forever
...Written: April 14, 2024, For Silent One Forgotten Fields Contest
Rumi Verse: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul l...
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Categories:
chaffinch, analogy, fate, flower,
Form: Free verse
My Suicide
...Oh what a beautiful day,
what a beautiful day
A day with prizes hidden inside
What a glamorous day
To make my wretched thoughts pay
Today you get to witness my suicide
Oh
I don’t know if ...
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Categories:
chaffinch, desire, emotions, growth, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Color Black and Black Gold
...Chuck looks slender and charming
wearing his black
tux, white silk shirt, black
tie, black rose boutonnière on his lapel ,
and polish black
patent leather shoes;
drives up in his black Cad...
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Categories:
chaffinch, muse,
Form: Free verse
Spring Is Sprung - For Songbirds Contest
...Spring Is Sprung
The daffies are ready to give us their best
The early spring sun gifting newfound zest
The chaffinch, the blue tit, the robin redbreast
Flit hither thither, all planning to nes...
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Categories:
chaffinch, bird, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Mindblowing
...MINDBLOWING
when the words I read
are ingested into
my core with
musclebrawn extreme
I emancipate my
ingenuity
he…
writes veracities
with accuracy
unpretentious
indisputable
...
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Categories:
chaffinch, dedication,
Form: I do not know?
The English Hedgerow
...By lane and path the English hedgerow,
In which so many wild things grow,
For centuries has crossed the land –
A world of nature, close at hand.
In Spring the blackthorn's cloaked in snow,
Its...
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Categories:
chaffinch, bird, england, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Glong, Glong, Glong
...G..long, G..long, G..long,
It was so intriguing
The G..long sound
Trumpeting elephant?
No elephant here said..
Greville the greedy goat,
Sim the swaying giraffe
even Lind the chaffinch.
In ...
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Categories:
chaffinch, giggle, humor,
Form: Free verse
Liberated Part 1 of 2
...Liberated Part 1 of 2
Liberated after years of incarceration, body and mind vacation,
somewhere tropical, just shy of the equator, feel unstoppable as pen and paper,
intimately dance, a ...
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Categories:
chaffinch, emotions, fantasy, music,
Form: Rhyme
Deep In the Woods
...It's a fearful place it scared me in my childhood and it still does,
So very far in the deepest of woods it lay, black, a deep dark pool,
By bushes, overhanging trees, stretched across dirty stagnant...
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Categories:
chaffinch, nature, dark, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry
Chaffinch On Blooming Cherry Tree
...so the chaffinch comes
to sing so sweetly loud on
blooming cherry tree...
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Categories:
chaffinch, nature,
Form: Haiku
Your Love
...Your love is like an invisible magnet
Attracting me
To a warm and tender devotion
Your affection flows
Like the mellifluous song of the Chaffinch
We are now like one
Sticking by the love magn...
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Categories:
chaffinch, lovelove,
Form: Sonnet
A Painted Table
...My friends come dine with me, while nature writes its poetry.
Corn, maize, sunflower seeds, bread, nuts and fruit for all
your needs. A bowl of water for you to wash, a gentle sip and
your thir...
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Categories:
chaffinch, natureyellow,
Form: I do not know?