Jacarandas Poems - Poems about Jacarandas

...Cellphone monologue I’ve been driving, you know the road is no highway, how taxing, skirting potholes, cajoling the new jalopy will be there for a candle lit supper, come what may. Out of the g......Read the rest...

...Last Night Look up there. Do you see the seven sisters? The night is unusually warm. I hear speeding cars going down Broadway. The freight train is screeching across Canobie. Purple-blooming ......Read the rest...

...I Remember You Yes, I remember you, the dark-skinned girl, dressed in tight corduroy, unzipped on the floor there. You were my lover that night in 1970; We were wrestling so smoothly, so ......Read the rest...

...I once read a poem. It’s style was different than mine. Then I thought. Won’t it be nice to write about jacarandas & marigolds. Spices and all that taste nice. I reasoned. Won’t my readers love ......Read the rest...

...The lithe traipse of night wind tingles in my ear with faint secrets chiming through jacarandas and June's lavender-strewn grass. I stand before the fatal moon, his ivory blood trail lilting on ......Read the rest...

...She dreamt in smoky salmon clouds of dawn, forsaking violets of bitter truth, that he had stayed and not to heaven gone still in the cherry blossom of his youth, that umber hair and eyes he sti......Read the rest...

...City of Trees 1 Johannesburg, home to ten million trees, It’s the world’s largest urban arboretum. Streets in summer lie beneath green canopies. 2 From sidewalks their branches meet with e......Read the rest...

...You were not present. Far from the pallid sky- in the graveyard, the marbled tears had become the eyes. The meanness of the grill. It will not fix the sun. I stand by a river, which was ......Read the rest...

...Melissa Lont 1825 - 1911 How does one as low and humble as I Sum up my life of 86 years In a mere poem as brief and short-lived As life itself? And what is the secret to my long life? What do I kno......Read the rest...

...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 blo......Read the rest...

...White and red and pink oleanders bloom-- they are blown in wind, littering grass and drying on the bricks of my front patio. Orchid trees are flowering, and royal poncianas. Surprising jacara......Read the rest...

...Trading the sweetness, a rainbow on icefalls, you will come back on rocks and drink the elixir of death. A fantastic dream of soap bubbles in a tumbler, ejecting the inky grief on the transparent gla......Read the rest...

...Trading the sweetness, a rainbow on icefalls, you will come back on rocks and drink the elixir of death. A fantastic dream of soap bubbles in a tumbler, ejecting the inky grief on the transparent......Read the rest...

...In the valley of blasts a row of jacarandas tall, sweet smelling, shed blue petals endlessly. A colossus spread on wounds of earth. A small girl with pellets in her belly was searching he......Read the rest...

...Seeing the spring flowers with colors so intense and alive, makes me praise their Creator even more; amazed and breathless, unable to find any imperfection in all that lies under the infinite sk......Read the rest...