Spring Ghazal Poems

Is this how love’s day spring suddenly becomes night?
I’m a helpless victim imprisoned in the night.

How many souls have you captured oh, enchantress?
Your purple garden...

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SPRING

Imagined days of the warmer kind
As Spring glances nervously behind

Echoes of frost still haunt each day
As Spring glances nervously behind

Sensing winter’s cold icy fingers
As Spring...

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When days grow longer, you know it is spring
The sun warms the earth's soil, whoa! it's spring.

Shades of tender green appear, warm sun's here
Barefoot, run...

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When winter melts all about, spring is here, 
and when the daffodils sprout, spring is here.

When Robin-red-breasts begin arriving,
there is seldom any doubt; spring is...

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Snowdrops always sprout early every spring,
while Tulips pop up later every spring.

And the naked trees don a beard of green,
as trillions of buds unfurl every...

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Spring slips those neo-leaves on protuberance-limbs.
Youth is adorned with buds and flowering whims.

Poppies drench an infant’s eyes and awaken sleep.
Spiked trellis dreams sow garden-beard whims.

Blackbirds...

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Hunger and horses

Spring 1945
A horse collapsed
In the street
Of hunger.
Skinny men in black
From doorways came.
Long knives
Tore into
Shivering flesh.
Hyenas.
A shot fired
The horse was dead
The hyenas 
Would return.
An...

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Let me 'neath fleecy clouds be. For spring is here.
God's creation all for me. For spring is here.

So many glorious gardens to admire,
Clematis attracts a...

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Life is a great dream         
What a first rate dream      

 

Sleep...

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Squirrels with nuts winters snowflakes floating! On the ground,
Nights with no lights seen glittering and glowing! On the ground.

Trees barren with heavy snow while squirrels...

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The sunshine feels fine on a warm spring day
and the blues abate on a warm spring day.

March snowflakes morph into April showers
and hopes slowly climb...

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Dear God,

The deep amber shades of another glorious day are closing.
The sun has gone to rest in the earth's 
spring flower bed.
As your daughter, I need to sleep,
So...

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 I remain…  

I remain…
What is this cane? What is this pain? I remain.
Within my house, mirrors complain; I remain.
My spring gone by, summer...

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Why Now?

Why Now?
You came to see me when I’m old; why now?
Why not when I was young and bold? Why now?
I lost my luster, my...

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The path to the wisdom

I was in love with a flower; now I am in love with light.
I escaped from pain and sorrow, even though...

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