I fell off the staircase
A tree wrapping around its trunk
Birds gliding through the ocean
Teastall offering free of charge
North Korea and the USA
On a toast with Scotch whiskey
What's your name, someone says?
I was staring at the tree leaves
Then a gentle voice emerged
Under the sun, my supreme choice
I found the Jakaranda blue
As in a haze, I came to
Did you do it intentionally
Sigmund Freud on the wall
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26 August 2025
Categories:
jacaranda, blue, caregiving, confusion, extended
Form: Free verse
jacaranda blooms
wink on the way home from school -
summer coming soon
Categories:
jacaranda, flower, school, spring, summer,
Form: Haiku
Your sudden dome, like purple popcorn,
erupts as crochet-baubles:
Nanna-graffiti in a tree.
Underneath, dizzy bees stagger
in your fallen floral wealth.
Jacaranda on a spree: you herald heat,
cicadas, and thunderstorms
that will trash your lavish treasure.
Categories:
jacaranda, nature, spring, tree,
Form: Free verse
Genteel parade cascades in white trimmed linked,
though these blues, twenty-meter, inlander
also impressive, broad stretched branch, distinct
crown more stable. The Blue Jacaranda,
has smooth bark, aged scaly, bears enduring
violet flowers, panicles--cluster,
woody seed pods next. Flowers one month Spring,
one month Summer. Considered in danger
likewise, an invasive class, overrun
native class, but, concerned regions vary.
Ornamental tree ranks high, can't be done.
Surroundings and weather techniques, wary.
Streaked down the city's humming boulevards,
or nearby country lanes and quaint front yards.
Categories:
jacaranda, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
In spring mornings
jacaranda flowers so belles
coloring life of marvel
Categories:
jacaranda, allegory, allusion, analogy, color,
Form: Light Verse
Bestow on me an incorrect
3 leafed clover ephigy of
buttercup due early spring May
With I meandering through a maze
of cotton wool field lost
Trying best to avert the gaze of
the virile bull's with Horn's poised
Whilst listening to the joy of piercing
ringing mandolin string's and trooping
drum's in both left and right ear's on
my head
Eminating from the Yee Grand Old
Antebellum Plantation guard house
Adorned with a lushious overhanging
archway on either side of it's giant's
causeway
If you dare imagine with Jacaranda Blue
and Cherry blossom infused on a sunset
pink hue nude muse
Instantaneously ushering forth a vision
of Scarlett O'Hara vivacious locks
Gone with the wind like a kite upon a
hazy shimmering warm summer up draft
Augusta Georgia R.E.M night-swimming
aftermath
Categories:
jacaranda, love, obituary,
Form: Free verse
I lay in a
Sea of purple
These petals
That have fallen
From this tree
its mighty branches
Reaching up
Now naked
Toward the sky
Its dropped its
Last flowers
Now a circle
Of purple
On a sea
Of green
Under a
Blue sky
This
Jacaranda
And me
Categories:
jacaranda, blue, purple, tree,
Form: Free verse
At rehab the angels of sobriety made me write the word Love in the soil with
Jacaranda petals the colour of indigo from a rainbow and crown chakra in waiting
‘There was a beautiful soul here who drew a Heart of same petals on the lawn’
I flew like a bee to sweet honey to a visiting Queen of Fairy Tale Land unaware
That She was the synchronous painter a kind Universe sent as soulmate and wife
21st May 2018
Categories:
jacaranda, addiction, love, magic, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Each year in May, as Jacarandas bloom,
A carpet of sky is strewn across the grass.
Mother Nature wears her delft costume,
With a breezy sweet perfume none can surpass.
And we beneath these blossomed boughs assume,
true love upon a bed of azure petals.
Categories:
jacaranda, beauty, love, passion, romantic,
Form: Rhyme Royal
jacaranda
majestic in blue purple
~nature’s royalty
Categories:
jacaranda, nature,
Form: Haiku
Spread high and wide against the noonday sun
The jacaranda tree displays its mauve foliage
All nature knows that August has finally come
Students on their way back again to college
On the ground beneath the generous tree
The old woman selling the bags of maize
Out of school children are running free
A flock of goats on the long acre graze
European man and woman on the road
How are you shouts the native child
Old man on bicycle with heavy load
Dusty clothes all worn and soiled
Coloured plumaged birds flit here and there
Darting in and out through perfumed leaves
The happy chirping is their daily prayer
The tranquil air their message receives
Windy Autumn is now about to fade away
And leave behind a flowerless silent tree
We had some pleasure if only for a day
And know that beauty can make us free
Categories:
jacaranda, nature, seasons, uplifting, woman,
Form: Light Verse