Quietude
Quiet are the hyacinths
Underneath the snows
Irises and violets
Even the red rose
Today are lying silent
Underneath the snows
Daffodils and lilacs
Even the red rose.
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Categories:
hyacinth, daffodils, rose,
Form: Acrostic
HYACINTH HANDS
Hyacinth Hands
Mother, ego-cracker, birthed an embodiment of freedom plaited with slavery
petunia planter, marjoram with Malay curry and rice, yet scarcity her best performance when hunger a primary protagonist
my leap into Sovereignty depended on unraveling karmic bonds binding us through lifetimes, countless ages, sotto scenarios
Piscean, she scaly presented the toughest tests with
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Categories:
hyacinth, appreciation, birth, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations V
Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 23
translation by Michael R. Burch
I long helplessly for love.
Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares.
Who is your equal?
I compare you only to goldenhaired Helen among mortal women.
Know your love would free me from every care, and keep me awake nightlong beside dewy deltas.
Sappho, fragment 78
translation by
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Categories:
hyacinth, beautiful, children, flower, longing,
Form: Free verse
Hyacinth and Daffodil
Hyacinth and daffodil
bloom on yonder verdant hill
Though roses struggle to emerge
thorns impaled on concrete's dirge
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Categories:
hyacinth, flower, grief, music,
Form: Couplet
Hyacinth Hymn of Healing
In a hyacinth bed of seven stars,
winter fairies waltz in pearl elegance~
a token of faith engrossed amidst scars,
while skies drizzle rain in fruity essence.
Angel of sleep seeks through frost's icy thorn,
fallen feathers soar towards jasmine moon,
when lotus light within soul is reborn,
listen to the tree of life sigh and croon.
Somewhere between daisy dusks and
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Categories:
hyacinth, gospel, weather,
Form: Quatrain
Hyacinth
it was a legal tackle–
it’s not as if football is a dangerous sport,
sure you have your injuries,
but it’s not like boxing
where the guys walk around brain-damaged,
or look at hockey,
they have more fights than goals,
I mean even in skiing
a non-contact sport
you fall, you get hurt,
or your knees don’t last past thirty
it was a legal tackle–
Boomer was
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Categories:
hyacinth, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
In Memoriam of a Broken Family
Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust.
Six million irons, disjointed from their ores
Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils.
The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing
Were uncoupled from their hives through Reichsbahn.
However, a tensed, stale wind of discord swivel
On the creeks of Dachau, Auschwitz, Treblinka
And other shores of darkness.
Never shall the bloody sky efface again
The
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Categories:
hyacinth, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Hyacinth
Fragrance of butterflies
or angel flutter
and
cloud float.
Scent of pastel
sun butter,
a soprano bird note.
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Categories:
hyacinth, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Flowers of His Thought
He came to me and gently brought,
the fairest flowers of His thought.
Joy arrived with euphoric mums,
softly as the hummingbird hums.
Purity blown from baby’s breath,
ever innocent until death.
Peace pervaded purest poppy,
tranquil bliss nothing can copy.
Happiness borne from pure lily,
butterfly wings, dainty and frilly.
Gratitude from feathered pink rose;
praises for His blessings arose.
Humility spread bold bluebells,
silken as bunnies’
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Categories:
hyacinth, butterfly, flower, god, mum,
Form: Couplet
Fragrant Bouquet
delicate beauty
hyacinth's perfumed bouquet~
caught on spring breeze
Nature in Spring
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Categories:
hyacinth, spring,
Form: Haiku
Hyacinth
Long has lived the legend of her,
In sunsets of scarlet and violet,
When fields were scented in lavender--
Her theme fragrance lingers yet!
Dainty and elegant in lilac dress,
Hyacinth lives next to a grapevine,
Petite, pretty, pert, purple princess;
Upon her grapes she loves to dine.
The Princess of Purple reigns afar,
In the warm gaze of her mother, Sun;
In her royal
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Categories:
hyacinth, beauty, color, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Hyacinths Perfume
I lingered to enjoy the moment,
ending the eleven-month intermission,
as the sweet aroma reached me
from the garden behind the house.
The hyacinth had returned
without fanfare or recognition
by bulbs not yet broken forth,
or buds pregnant with the glory of spring.
I followed the unforgettable scent
to its humble position beside the hellebore,
and admired my early spring friend
before me in perfect
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Categories:
hyacinth, flower, spring,
Form: Free verse
To Hyacinthus
Eyes of violet and skin so smooth to touch
Fingers so thin yet so strong in their clutch
In the late summer wind, you are no mere man
You've tamed armies and Gods, and named cults and clans.
Strength and yet, I see how fragile you are
Brilliant as the sun, and sweet as the stars
You watched me as no
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Categories:
hyacinth, beauty, boyfriend, care, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Water Hyacinth
Dictatorship is water hyacinth
once it infests water
it shocks aquatic life
limits fishermen
terrorizes fish at home
difficult to eradicate
and benefits a few
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Categories:
hyacinth, leadership, metaphor, power,
Form: Free verse
Hyacinth
Falling into the hyacinth sky as
your mouth is filled with my name:
I am eternal.
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Categories:
hyacinth, blue, love, romantic, sky,
Form: Kimo
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