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, the flowers hang
As though ornaments of spring, they span;
Pinnately complex leaves sway in boisterous
Though medicinal, these flowers are poisonous.
In beauty, she resembles the Indian bride.
In her, the yellow Wagtail seems unidentified.
Strived, thrived, and ultimately survived;
Aren't, yet, her glamour and splendour shortlived?
Categories:
laburnum, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
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...
From black-mud surface, dust, like fog arises,
Road seem unclear; yet, adventure provides surprises;
Muddy hillocks both the sides stand in welcome poses,
Bend tree-branches with twigs show-off their stiff noses;
Leaves, in multi-colors, are spread like fancy-carpets,
Grasses, peeping between leaves, seem to scatter in tit-bits;
Silk-cottons, bottle-brushes and fountain-trees exhibit red,
The Indian laburnum and golden bells seem gold-yellow-spread;
Magnolia, crape myrtle and crab-apples shine in pink,
While Rhododendrons and Wisteria stand dipped in blue-ink...
My car Air Conditioner is jobless as cool breeze all round blow,
End of colorful meadows, I could see clear streams flow;
With variety signatures of sun, the sky is magnificent,
I wish my drive could go on for years and eras without end...!
09 September 2022
Categories:
laburnum, car, journey, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
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.
Categories:
laburnum, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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 unstoppable
Tik Tok Covid
Tango of the dead and living.
Categories:
laburnum, angst, crazy, how i
Form: Light Verse
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-state,
Our rugged landscape,
Our legendary generosity,
The children of Afghan.
Dad, Valley of the Five Lions?
The legend of five spiritual guardians?
Categories:
laburnum, environment,
Form: Epyllion
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 summer strawberry.
It is the incense mist that dances volute
Through the golden leaf of the temple forest.
It is the sleepy smoke that rises softly
From the predawn embers of a winter hearth.
How long the years have passed since last I heard her laugh!
© Barry Freeman - August 1995
Categories:
laburnum, loss, love, time,
Form: Blank verse
black snakeroot, yew, cocklebur, poison (ivy, oak, parsnip, sumac, ryegrass, hemlock), blister bushes, daffodil, mayapple, lilium, jerusalem cherry, indian licorice, deadly nightshade, christmas rose, bleeding heart, asparagus berries, wolfsbane, tomato leaves, doll’s eyes, the suicide tree, young larkspur, blue-green algae, stinkweed, dumbcane, european spindle, blind-your-eye mangrove, manchineel, laburnum, mother of millions, elderberry root, bacterial pathogens, exotoxins, mycotoxins, grayanotoxins, rhinovirus, chicken pox, sleeping sickness, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid, rotavirus, river blindness, measles, japanese encephalitis, hepatitis (a,b & c), cryptosporidiosis, shigella infection, pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, malaria, influenza, herpes (1 & 2), crab louse, scabies, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, trichomoniasis, hpv, hiv/aids, ebola virus, marburg virus, mad cow disease, mudslides, avalanches, blizzards, storms, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, fires, supervolcanic eruptions: evidence of absence.
Categories:
laburnum, life,
Form: Free verse
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 pollen quiver as it wrestles with the bee
and seen each faded petal fall on grass of emerald green.
Have you laughed at the frolics of the birds
as they splash in puddles left by rain or silently watched them feed their young
in rhododendron by the lane
where lazy tom purrs having missed them once again.
Have you waited for a poppy to burst while sitting in the sun
and lifted your eyes just a whisper away to find you missed the fun.
Have you walked the paths to find the shade
when the evening light begins to fade
and honeysuckle sends its perfumes high
with lilac and laburnum against an azure sky.
Have you watched the setting of the sun
its dancing rays at play tinting the trees with golden hues
at the closing of the day
All this magic in a garden where miracles are made
twixt work of man and nature
the foundation of love is laid
this haven full of riches like a wilderness will die
unless you pause to linger
instead of passing by
Categories:
laburnum, life, nature, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Come Walk with Me in This Sweet Place
~~~
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.
This is my highland valley home I show to thee,
that I may share its beauty rare, come walk with me.
In this sweet place I’ll make my home.
It’s been my fate the world to roam
in many climes from east to west,
now time has come for me to rest.
So I’ll return, once more my hills I will embrace,
Live out my life, my latter days, in this sweet place.
A wrapped poem.
Categories:
laburnum, nature, nostalgia, me, sweet,
Form: I do not know?