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Jonquil Poems - Poems about Jonquil

Floral Farewell
...Velvet red roses stand cheek to cheek with daisy faces, ringed in petal fringes, sweetly scented by creamy bubbles of double jonquil popcorn blooms beside a starburst yellow chrysanthemum, ......

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Categories: jonquil, farewell, flower, grief,
Form: Free verse
JONQUIL
...JONQUIL You may know me as Jonquil My cousins are daffodil and narcissus A fringed cup surrounded by petals Each combining white with yellow The latter, a hue with my own name And I’m perfum......

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Categories: jonquil, flower,
Form: Personification



Yellow Sky
...Perhaps it is the yellowing autumnal foliage that the evening light reflects, or it could be the yellow corvette parked beneath this particular tree that up-lights the sky? Dusk brings diaphan......

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Categories: jonquil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crazy Poem
...Johnny jonquil jerry justified jilly’s jeu jeu bee Dilly dally Doolittle dodged debonair simon legree’s degree Freakish freddy frogmouth forever frolicked footloose and free Michigan mike’s handy ......

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Categories: jonquil, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Spring Beauty and the Beast
...Spring Beauty and the Beast Tenderly Spring sends harbingers of beauty, Knights errant of crocus and snowdrops, To warm winter’s shopworn heart And soothe his brittle bones of barren boughs W......

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Categories: jonquil, flower, life, love, spring,
Form: Personification



Premium Member This Dance of Shadows
...It seems that as the solstice climbs the hill to goad the slothful sun to do its will to taunt it with its ever-urgent plea arise and start your journey sea to sea and then upon days closing mo......

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Categories: jonquil, metaphor, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Red At the End of Gold
...I was a happy fruit farmer, growing delicious, healthy fruits for consumption. Since we'd bought the farm ten years prior, all the family lent to its function. It was a large, productive farm, an......

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Categories: jonquil, fantasy, fruit, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Mother Regina Pacis
...I wanted to thank you But was unable to explain What your friendship means to me To share wonderful memories with It's a blessing to know our friendship Is grateful through all these year's......

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Categories: jonquil, baptism, bible, friendship, hero,
Form: Ballad
The Advent of Spring
..."Spring awakes with the touch and breath of God." the poet's pen No morning hoarfrost covered meadows and hills, just flowers ti......

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Categories: jonquil, spring,
Form: Ottava rima
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
...My most popular poems on the Internet (II) A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a l......

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Categories: jonquil, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
...Dusk-gliding swallow, please spare my small friends flitting among the flowers! —Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch A bee emerging from deep within the peony's hairy recesses flie......

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Categories: jonquil, autumn, death, life, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
...The first soft snow: leaves of the awed jonquil bow low —Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch Come, investigate loneliness! a solitary leaf clings to the Kiri tree —Matsuo Basho t......

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Categories: jonquil, animal, butterfly, death, earth,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Blighted Statues
...I can only live in a garden where warped talons of tiger tulip petals mar unbroken lines of pastel shimmer, not where silent cerulean lakes float as though aloft in frames of polished stone ......

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Categories: jonquil, flower, garden, nature, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Children of Spring
...CHILDREN OF SPRING Spring spreads out her parasol In April, June – always May; Invites the children of her garden Come with her to play today. Yellow Daffodil stands straight up Announcin......

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Categories: jonquil, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Upspring
...i’m on Georgia turf, the land of bless your heart, pretense of the titillation of heat. scurries the sun; moon damp on clothesline. burrowing bunny ears with chocol......

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Categories: jonquil, insect, rain, spring,
Form: Free verse

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