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Cypresses Poems - Poems about Cypresses

Premium MemberThe Music Swells

...Edna Morris lived in the town of Shadow Fells, in rich green, hilly country,
With doting parents and sister Violet, plucking fruit from their plum tree.

Pretty Edna was twelve years old, ...
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Categories: cypresses, children, christmas, dream, happiness,
Form: Couplet

Orchard with Cypresses A painting By Vincent Van Gogh

...In sunlit fields where olive trees grow,
Vincent wandered, mind aglow.
The blue of skies, a restless sea,
Matched the turmoil he longed to free.

The cypresses stood tall and proud,
Dark green ...
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Categories: cypresses, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberLost Dreams

...A melancholy moon shone upon the earth.
Shadows lingered upon rows of tombstones.
I searched for solace in the vast cemetery
But alas, I found none to heal my wounds.

Days had passed with echoe...
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Categories: cypresses, death, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Aborted Baby

...Crepuscular rays filtered through the trees:
Tall black cypresses around a dark shrine,
Evening grim bells toll as I feel the freeze,
Conscious the tomb covered with rambling vine,
While nocturna...
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Categories: cypresses, abortion, abuse,
Form: Dizain

Premium MemberCrime and victim day and night

...The name Scot denoting a man, combined with terra.
Translated; Scotland.! a masculine descriptive will it be
Banned.? By the idiocracy; with a non-descriptive..?
Dystopian' most bland..The most di...
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Categories: cypresses, education, endurance, homework,
Form: Rhyme



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 ...
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Categories: cypresses, adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Narrative

Cypress Paintings

...The Met* has an exhibit,
Cypress paintings by Van Gogh.
We joined the crowds and went to see
This most amazing show.

Like all the other patrons,
We snapped photos on our phones,
Except for on...
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Categories: cypresses, art,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberVan Gogh Analysed

...a drawbridge is seen
a yellow carriage ground 
grass so very green
sky and water
 blue in a frame of gold
decorate the scene
as if in a dream
 a starry night
 cypresses over a field of corn
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Categories: cypresses, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

The Recipe

...menthol cigarettes / messy journals / propane torches / unfinished poems / 
                 broken promises / black bandana / clock rings /
thrift shops / candle wax / stolen books / peach nehi /
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Categories: cypresses, anxiety,
Form: List

Don'T Lie To Poets

...You can’t lie
To a sweet lyre bird,
You can’t lie
At a small primrose,


Nor to a young Clarisse,
No one will lie,
Or a lying cat,
You can’t lie to me,

You can’t lie to me,
To a white ro...
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Categories: cypresses, appreciation, encouraging, hello, writing,
Form: Free verse

Ablir 627 - Ucnae 713

...and what's new in that... the resolved issues are useless... just like the brittle texture of the skin and the old flesh beneath it... only a long yawn succeeds this sort of inevitable self-disappoin...
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Categories: cypresses, death,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberEkphrasis On Wheat Field With Cypresses

...effervescent swirling clouds
in turquoise summer skies
float like flocks of fair sheeps
in far away exuberant fields

beneath are cyclopean cypresses
touching celestial bosom
in deep periwinkl...
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Categories: cypresses, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis

Broken Limbo

...Its dark,,thoughts deep dipped
Taking a stroll but I wanna ride
To go so far that my feets tire
To do it so fast that my thighs burn up
All the more my butt builds

Excruciating lashing wind I ...
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Categories: cypresses, celebration, emotions, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberProse Poem Van Gogh

...A drawbridge,a yellow carriage ground a glaring orange,grass so very green,sky and water blue in a frame of gold.Peach,plum and apricot the orchard passion cannot last.As if in a dream  the a starry ...
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Categories: cypresses, art, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberMidnight Run

...A sultry night,
cascading blues 
dance in moonlight’s caress,
through the mossy-laden
cypresses.

I see a gull
flying in the 
sapphire and white
clouds and think
back to younger ...
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Categories: cypresses, appreciation, beach, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse

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