Flower Iambic Pentameter Poems

Vulnerable 


The only flower
In a field of weeds

The wind is how'ling
A strong,violent breeze

A drop of water
On the desert sand

So lost and so a
Lone, just like...

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Winter seems to be so severe;
Had tormented while it is here;
Spring is now and am impressed;
Up things seems to be all dressed.

Another new year did...

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They are so pleasant to our eyes, 
The flowers, nature’s great creation. 
Though their apparel is so nice, 
Their blossom has a short duration. 

But...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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While lounging in my duster* watching news,
I have my morning coffee. When I'm through,
I wash my cup and saucer and admire
their elegance and pleasing shade...

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 Somehow   I always know when Spring will come 
By the fragrance of lilacs in the sun ;
Their trembling buds awake beside my...

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Autumn Love

I find autumn’s approach tinges the air:
Season to season, days faithfully flow,
My mirror, of late, reflecting gray hair
And my wife’s merry cheeks losing some...

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We know her as Camellia...that fine name,
a perfect one for someone sweet as she;
her silky skin and amber eyes proclaim
a charming, pristine beauty, all agree.

Just...

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Wally’s going to the mall today to buy some things he needs,
like toothpaste, soap, and bubble bath, and packs of flower seeds.
The first thing in...

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I think of you being a universe away—
it cuts like broken glass, being apart from you
and all alone and without a bright ray
that's you to...

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In beautiful surroundings, sitting there,

sweet fragrance of carnations filled the air.

The perfume stirred romantic feelings while

we waited quietly.  But soon a smile

when all at...

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What can I do, for you are out of reach?
I weep and sigh in dungeon of my heart
I tear my clothes in anguish, I beseech
That...

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Red velvet petals, only I, seduce,
With hidden danger under the disguise,
My fingers feeling shyly, I reduce,
Thorns sharpen, ready, waiting the unwise.

Before me, bleeding poison, I...

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I've found true love within our nature now;
For only when one sees how small he is, 
How insignificant to the big man; 
Can one feel...

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MORE THAN A SIGNIFICANT OTHER - IAMBIC METER!

“Come live / with me / and be / my love.”

I ask of you this because you are...

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