Summer Perdition
...after 'Berck-Plage' by Sylvia Plath
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A sheet of glass, this expanse of water.
How its tranquillity mocks my unrest.
Bloated beachballs and balloons
travel the park and...
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Categories:
laburnum, abortion, loss, summer,
Form: Free verse
The Indian Laburnum
...Is gold blossoming in each branch?
At the end of spring, they fill the ranch.
Smooth, pale, or greenish-grey, crusty barks
Bright yellow, drooping Sundrops fill the parks.
In pendulous racemes, t...
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Categories:
laburnum, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Taking a Fall Drive
...Drive at any season gives me immense fun,
I cannot afford many cars; yet, I've good one;
Drive during Fall, indeed, is very enchanting,
Especially, if through village roads, it's joy-granting...
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Categories:
laburnum, car, journey, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Laburnum Tree
...In my vicinity ,
there is a garden so green.
In the middle of which
lies a laburnum tree.
Stand underneath and witness
the beautiful silhouette,
When the sun glows
warm with brighter
sheen....
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Categories:
laburnum, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Love During Covid
...Day brightens
Resplendant Laburnum buds are glowing
Still an unquiet morning
An ornate chandelier blazing
While the SUN is hiding
And a disease re-emerges
Prolonging months of grieving
Pyre un...
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Categories:
laburnum, angst, crazy, how i
Form: Light Verse
Children of Afghan
...Poisonous laburnum hang downwards,
These dusty streets,
Hot as herbs and spices,
Touching deep buttery Panjshir Valley,
The Great Highland Bagpipes.
Sweaty, I will tell you,
About hegira-stat...
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Categories:
laburnum, environment,
Form: Epyllion
Her Laughter Is All Seasons
...Her laughter is all seasons:
It is the April rain that trickles like a fugue
Down the twisted branches of the laburnum.
It is the sparkling rill that rushes gaily
From the first bite of a sum...
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Categories:
laburnum, loss, love, time,
Form: Blank verse
The Poo Poo Bird
...They pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope
Now King Arthur decla...
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Categories:
laburnum, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Indicium
...black snakeroot, yew, cocklebur, poison (ivy, oak, parsnip, sumac, ryegrass, hemlock), blister bushes, daffodil, mayapple, lilium, jerusalem cherry, indian licorice, deadly nightshade, christmas rose...
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Categories:
laburnum, life,
Form: Free verse
The Garden
...Have you lingered in a garden instead of passing by
and heard the rhythm of the flowers as they gentle sigh
at the warm wind playing softly around each opening bud.
have you watched the golden pol...
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Categories:
laburnum, life, nature, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Come Walk With Me
...Come Walk with Me in This Sweet Place
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Come walk with me in glens of green.
Enjoy with me the peaceful scene,
where falls cascade and rivers flow
and bracken ‘neath laburnum grow....
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Categories:
laburnum, nature, nostalgia, me, sweet,
Form: I do not know?