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.
Categories:
jasmines, i miss you, longing,
Form: Free verse
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 us close with teal time winding
What she was too was clairvoyant yet meek
Not at all a fuchsia fool nor of violet vanity
She told me once of a visitor in green
Who soothed her soul from beyond all dreams
Her kiss is a wish that I live life well
Take care of her plants be sure to tell
Her kids to dance to smell the smells
Make dreams true not just wish at a white well
Her kiss in the wind is delivered love
We can wrap in like a green glove
We can find still her yellow mellow ways
When the warmest wind blows across brown face.
Categories:
jasmines, abuse, appreciation, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
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 bloom
with dew each petal drips
gazes at the scarlet moon
so woefully eclipsed
While stars can live for eons
star jasmines live one moon
both own the night like neon
though one is gone too soon
A blood moon, even rarer still
envies every star
a prophecy too soon fulfilled
yet leaves no lasting scar
When the last jasmine flourishes
for me, sad joy it brings
while ruby moonlight nourishes
and silver starlets sing
And how it wishes, how it yearns
to escape this earthly sphere
and twinkle down each lyric learned
to this observer here.
*written during the “blood moon” eclipse
that took place on April 14th, 2014
Categories:
jasmines, flower, moon, stars,
Form: Rhyme
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 the ground
In despair, he regrets with a heart heavy,
For he was not the flower......
Sponsor - Brian Strand
Contest Name - BRIAN STRAND no 1165
Date - 1st January, 2023
Categories:
jasmines, love,
Form: Rhyme
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..
Categories:
jasmines, art,
Form: Acrostic
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 love
Turn my cheek
On your balmy palm
Shards of glass
Lashes of struggle
Morning and evening
There are
Will be too
We still sail
Go for vacation
Burst into gales of laughter
As the hands of love move
The flowers of fingers bloom
Shower of caress drenches
Benches call
On the strand
This is the existence
Embracing the distances
Smiling jasmines
Of euphoria
Categories:
jasmines, happiness,
Form: Free verse
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 unseen,
I sense a fragileness, if you must know.
Shadows do walk through fair weather sometimes,
but our pure aura will always submerge.
All you need is my embrace and my rhymes,
as two longing souls relentlessly merge.
Let us a n c h o r each other before death,
savoring each heart beat for one soft breath.
Date Written: August 20, 2016
Categories:
jasmines, beautiful, love,
Form: Sonnet
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 life again
So I walking there
Seduced by the naked scent of air
Recovered amidst the gushing bloom
Of jasmines hanging over the fence
A memory of nights
I shall not own again
And crushed by my mortal sense
Of spiritual penury
Before the white innocense of a flower
A reached up
As if to pick something no longer there
And in a moment of desire
For good
I, some evil, by choice accomplish
For my neighbor shall seek the gushing bloom
And find they are fewer there
I stole my neighbor's jasmines today.
Categories:
jasmines, history, nature, philosophy
Form: Free verse