Flower Italian Sonnet Poems

Beguiling spring, how bold your arrogance
You shameless season painted in conceit
Parading up and down each city street
O'er hill, through dale, you flaunt your elegance

Each tree,...

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Now, I am speechless; I am without speech
As you transcend the simplistic to grand
Grant me the guidance of your gifted hand
In the temple of your...

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Many springs came as the time’s wheel rolled by,
our hearts entwined we walked the garden trail.
Ardent fervor on cloud in blue, set sail,
not long, for...

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Early Spring

The tree became reborn when time was right.
At dawn it shed a bud that was blood red.
Upon the moist Spring ground, it stained and...

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North wind has gone back to polar abode
Chilled clouds have flown out on wings of winter
Made way for sunny south wind to enter
Write on rippling...

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Asparagus shoots, tender, and green~ killed
By late winter's artic blast and hoar's frost
All that intensive work, tossed aside, lost
The natural world rode in so skilled
Though...

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My love come and partake of my garden
My heart is in full bloom with love for you 
Shower me with kisses like morning dew
This love...

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Someone has said that all you need
Is a library and a garden
In order to harden
Yourself against life, or so I read.

My library is stuffed with...

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Like the only word on the page,
Like the only page with a word,
Like the only voice being heard,
Like the only bird in the cage.
Like being...

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The flower and the soil

   ‘O, flower, if you’ll be
rooted to me firmly, 
you’ll be standing proud; 
I’ll not let you fall.
I’ll nourish...

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i JUST TURNED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OLDED.  MY FIRST AND ONLY

LOVE WAS IN NINTEEN NINTY-NINE.  SHE WAS THE VERY ESSENCE OF TRUE

LOVE TO ME....

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Cecropia is carried through the night
on satin wings lined white in their design,
hovers over innocence by moonshine.
A fragrant flower has stopped him in his flight,
and...

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My father...
You are a unique flower
This is how I keep you
In my heart forever
Until the sunset waves goodbye
My father...
You dwell now in the heart of...

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As, when the sun does reach to heaven's height,
The sweet perfumèd orchid opens wide,
Inviting in Apollo's orb with pride,
Reflecting iridescent colors bright,
So I, responding to...

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A unique flower you must be
cause hands of an angel planted thee
With tulips and lilies you slowly grew 
That place in heaven was meant for...

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