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Lignum Vitae
Lignum Vitae Poems - Poems about Lignum Vitae
Branches
...Lignum vitae With and within you I myself begin And likewise, end. Although our seeds are different, yet we were grown from the same soil. You are my origin: By and into you I’m ......
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Diana Bosa
Categories:
lignum vitae,
love, nature, tree, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Jamaica -A Conversation
...Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica now day comes bright Her white dress lifted over blue legs of mountains Marbled to the sky. It drank diamond littered night Leaving nothing but an empty cup, where fountain......
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©
David Smalling
Categories:
lignum vitae,
nostalgia,
Form:
Verse
Celebration 50: Xviii
...Maroon man Broad back, true mouthed Flinging fire to frolic in the face Jamaica man, Saint Ann sprouted Long lignum vitae of the race Belly clean Platform devoted Africa's champion, noble will Great......
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David Smalling
Categories:
lignum vitae,
political,
Form:
Verse
Celebrating 50:X
...This is the lignum vitae A tough flower on dry ground This is the wood of life The mother of Merlin's wand The native child Of my native land Do not peel her bark Or your children shall die In some c......
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David Smalling
Categories:
lignum vitae,
political, flower, flower,
Form:
Free verse
A Memo As You Go
...In four days from today I wish you well as you go, and you shall walk again Through the shadow of the day Where memory forever my spirit keep in chain And you shall inhale once more Jasmines nak......
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David Smalling
Categories:
lignum vitae,
nature, romance, travelbeauty, memory,
Form:
Verse
Jew #13
...This is the number that some men dread, and some void From the intercourse of life. But I, indelibly now, reclaim Its place in universal order and the sweet conceit of pride For C13 was the boudoi......
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David Smalling
Categories:
lignum vitae,
love, mysterylife, me, sweet,
Form:
Verse
Lignum Vitae Love
...In purple majesty now The lignum vitae bloom Across the arid plains Moths and birds swim Upon its rare perfume And tourists stare Upon the short and stocky tree With rugged heart and strong ro......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
lignum vitae,
inspirational, nature, upliftingheart, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Island
...My island slept for years in the care Of Tainos, Caribs and Arawak Their canoes on the sea breast bare Dreaming of milk from manioc The swamps unscarred, trees secure Batos and songs rinsed in t......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
lignum vitae,
places
Form:
Verse