Lindsey, Heart Start
...Lindsey is Olde English for “Linden Tree by the brook”,
A tree universal, celebrated in many cultures being namely,
Doctor Tree, of Health, Feminine Arts, nook,
Of soothing calm, Light, Truth, an ...
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Categories:
linden tree, birthday, tree,
Form: Rhyme
La Isla Del Encanto
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La Isla del Encanto
(El Poema del Linda)
There was no Elizabethan
Changing of eyes
On the Isle of Enchantment;
No sudden moment of charm or bewilderment.
Rather, came a delicate ...
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Categories:
linden tree, love,
Form: Free verse
O Linden Tree
...O Linden Tree
Were I a bee
I’d buzz around you endlessly.
Your perfume’s key,
On street or lea,
To lure with much intensity.
But as for me,
Sincerity
Demands the truth, so golly gee,
I’d l...
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Categories:
linden tree, tree,
Form: Monorhyme
Sarajevo - Under the Linden Tree
...Sarajevo - UNDER A LINDEN TREE
The morning lights and to another day
a pirate's chest you've found but will not stay
for longer than the blinking of your eye
from troubled sleep to wake wherein y...
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Categories:
linden tree, conflict, tree, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Respite Under a Linden Tree
...I yearn for every moment to be a delight
For worry and stress to give way
To endless days of leisurely respite
From now until forever and ever
Let me fear no more and have no need for hope
Let ...
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Categories:
linden tree, anxiety, beauty, dream, tree,
Form: Free verse
Sepulchral Flame
...Linden tree branches whisper your name
Cherished by flowers, blessed by the sky,
Carved on a stone. The sepulcher’s flame
Kindles and keeps my memories nigh.
When your departure day I bemoan,
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Categories:
linden tree, bereavement, death, depression, loss,
Form: Rhyme
New Snow
...It happened quickly, not three full days
after the last sturdy leaf of the
flowering linden tree surrendered to
late fall winds.
Snowfall, lots of it. Over a foot
the first time. Shoveling, di...
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Categories:
linden tree, seasons, snow,
Form: Free verse
Linden
...Sun beams down softly in a summer sky
Towards the endless linen horizon following flock of geese falcon will fly
The golden grains like essence of the soul will lie
Opening is the Great Eye
The...
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Categories:
linden tree, fantasy, time, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Questions For a Stranger Ii
...Who is your god?
Who is your friend?
I could sit here for eternity
Asking questions like
Who is your lover?
Do you feel the shade of a linden tree between your lips?
Do you trust a swan glidi...
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Categories:
linden tree, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse
To Exit Time
...The spring flowers blossom
The song of nightingale is awesome
The mother is feeding a baby with milk from her bosom
Soon the baby is a child happy intelligent but not full of wisdom
Summer is here a...
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Categories:
linden tree, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Flowers of Spring
...Frühlingsblumen / Flowers of Spring / Flores de primavera
Tage sind länger
Und Frühlingsblumen blühen
In den Vorgärten
An einer Linde am Fluss
Klopft nur ein Specht seinen Takt
Day...
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Categories:
linden tree, seasonsspring, spring,
Form: Tanka
Junger Grünspecht/ Young Green Woodpecker/ Jóven Carpintero Verde
...Im tiefen Flug
Herrlich leuchtendes Gefieder
Ein junger Grünspecht
Im hohen alten Lindenbaum
Am günen Ufer der Mandau
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In its deep flight
With...
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Categories:
linden tree, animalsgreen,
Form: Tanka
Farewell To Autumn
...Again, Autumn leaves us.
Somebody shouts «Trouble, Misfortune!»
We shall not accuse the wind
which has torn off all leaves.
Autumn goes away imperceptibly,
like the wife who
no lo...
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Categories:
linden tree, song-autumn,
Form: Lyric