Cypress Tree Poems

The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part one

...Literary and Cultural Terms

Masnavi (also Mathnawi): A classical Persian poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets with a continuous narrative. The most famous example is Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'nav...

Jane-By-The-Sea

...Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place t...

Beyond

...
He climbed to the top of a tall cypress tree
All his fertile countryside world he could see
His father’s fields, neighbor’s houses, and kin folk’s, too
For seventeen years, the only world he kne...

The Glimmering

...I sleep 
to visit You 
in Your dreams,

oh my Esteemed -

a gauche novitiate,
there like a Laureate
You receive me

to learn Your secrets,
there wisdom is served
like as one planted, 

...

I Speak For the Dead

...Note: This poem is the twin poem for "She Speaks for the Dead." This one is in the mockingbird's perspective. 



I perch upon the locked gate,
awaiting the deepest hour of night. 
My abode is ...

What Fascinates Me

...art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
              vermillion sky, glowing sunshine, rose-branches waltzing,
                             birds chirping melo...

Lake Lover

...Luna’s image reflects on flat water;
she smiles at her likeness and ripples softly quiver.
Beneath the glinting surface another universe exists
where subaqueous creatures live, busy in their nests...

Leaving For a Distant Place

...Author: Runping Chen

In his mother’s eyes,
The child is dragging her coat brim;
On father’s broad shoulders,
I am still weak and young.
Today, the swallows are trying a fly
While I am also ab...

Variations On a Theme

..."And now I drink a toast to your coffin.
May it be fashioned of lumber obtained from a hundred-year-old cypress tree
whose seed will germinate this year."   
     Rob Brezsny

Refrain:
And now ...

Lia

...LaLaurie house of slaves with it's beauty of grand parlors that 
   glowed with hundreds of candles to light your way while guest dined and danced,
   lived the Creole lady Madame LaLaurie.
   It ...

Old School Love

...My love do you remember when we met?
At the Rubandikarya corner near the gigantic cypress tree,
An old sport known for romance,
Where lovers used to meet evening hours?
And they would do their ro...

Play Not a Dirge When I Am Gone

...Play Not A Dirge When I Am Gone

Play not a dirge when I am gone;
light no candles, not even one.
A treasured poem would be enough  
to mark my end when curtain’s drawn.

Hold no sad wakes...

Crack House

...Smoking crack in a house in an unfamiliar neighborhood with unfamiliar faces. The fear pouring out of my pours like the piss on the couch I'm sitting in coming from the numerous dogs and cats in this...

Florida Nature

...The laggard flow of fresh water 
With scattered pads of green 
Tall blades of sawgrass stretch around the bank

A lingering fog hovers 
Sun is trying to sneak through with its warm rays

Liche...

Taste Like Chicken

...In the wee hours of the morning
When the owls and imps were upon the marsh
We would take our old pirogue and paddle into the darkness
Our intent was to catch bullfrogs but anything was game 
We were ...

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