When You Return
You left me
And in your absence lives
The memory of canyon echoes
Jasmines after a spring rain
Grass stains on blue jeans
And the color of a sunset sky
Reflected off chrome
When you return
It will be with the fanfare
Of a hundred screaming seagulls
Steaming hot chocolate
Bluer skies, bluer jeans
And the scent of jasmines
That reminds both of us of home.
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Categories:
jasmines, i miss you, longing,
Form: Free verse
Jasmines Kiss
Lotus lips of lilac shade
planting pink fragrant kisses on my face
Kisses from auntie Jasmine in action today
Her love lives beyond the grave
Kisses from Jasmine in heaven yet here in spirit
Lime is her laughing kinfolk can you hear it?
She was a survivor of many things
Cancer abuse heart ache broken dreams
Now she’s earned her angel wings
She watches
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Categories:
jasmines, abuse, appreciation, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Blood Moon
This April night, the jasmines sigh
a gentle, fragrant breath
like fallen stars, they watch the sky
envious of death
Tethered, earthbound, by their vines
how cruel, these crafty ropes
yet still they fail now to confine
the faintest of all hopes
When upon the stroke of midnight
the moon became as blood
vermillion shadows snuff the light
now outshone by a bud
A single, white, celestial
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Categories:
jasmines, flower, moon, stars,
Form: Rhyme
The Jasmines
Still as death was the autumn night,
When Jasmines two bloomed in light,
From the wooden frame of solace,
Where hands were seen in embrace.
The clock had died at two,
The first rays of light still came through,
The man with wet smile, held tight,
But he knew there was no fight.
In the amber dawn, he picks up
The fallen flowers from
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Categories:
jasmines, love,
Form: Rhyme
Jasmines of Love
Jeopardy of love's jasmines
Attitude threatens the petals
Stable and sweet one moment
Miserable the next
Inner insecurities
Nitpicking on trivialities
Ectacy of passion yet resets
Smoothly falling in amorous lap..
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Categories:
jasmines, art,
Form: Acrostic
Smiling Jasmines of Euphoria
Inside my dark tent
You are my moon
Under the thunder
Of the camel in the desert
Of the pale and shabby suns
Still, I laugh
Go to the gym
Swim in lake
Make friends with
The pen and prism
Under your
Crimson umbrella
The days
The nights
I carry them
Hemmed within
Your love
The body turns
Into fragrant trees
Anguished dreams
Into mahogany shades
I lay my head
On the golden bunch
Of hay
Your
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Categories:
jasmines, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Lingering Jasmines
L I N G E R I N G jasmines hold scents that flourish,
they release a mystery beyond fate.
As rain drizzles on pastures they nourish,
your desire, a paradox, does create.
Stargazing in flight becomes our routine,
as does your touch release a soft e b b f l o w.
With my eyes so candid to joy
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Categories:
jasmines, beautiful, love,
Form: Sonnet
I Stole My Neighbor's Jasmines
Today I stole my neighbor
Jasmines growing over the fence
I was too vulnerable to resist
Since the foreclosure of my first garden.
Any fence makes good neighbor
Alright,
But don't you see
Trees and flowers will not stand it
They keep hanging over
Littering my primordial joy
With fruits and blossoms
As if to pay
Whatsover flaming sentinel that prevents
My eating from the tree of
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Categories:
jasmines, history, nature, philosophy
Form: Free verse