Long Arbour Poems

MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing canopy
Each arm like a single tree of temperate terre
Forming structure...

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A Chinese girl I took to a nunnery

			I

I led her
Her silent leg-irons cutting into my shins
That day when the air stood still
Dry as the day perhaps on the hill
					when he spoke standing still
Drier still my...

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The Error, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : El Error

				for Miguel Delibes

(There are just some words and phrases in this translation that I might yet want to modify or substitute with other alternative phrasing. T....

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I didn’t know George was an amorous lad,
causing chat on the bush telegraph.
I’d never heard George had done nothing bad,
‘cept splitting one marriage in half.

George never delved into breaking the law,
so there’s never a day...

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Journey' End

Seeing Franklin in the Music City I realised it is my journey's end
If the goddess of wealth would rain money and generosities
I would live in Franklin with my three daughter's families
One is already living...

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half seen in the shadows
a film of images
monlit velvet. blue deep
a pale stone in the dark
a glitter of water:
the days end
   voices far afield

light of sunrise
   the stillness
a rainbow awakens
 ...

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See there! She flies about the moor
Upon her favoured mount.
The waving, flowing grassy shore
bears hoofprints all about.
The waves her steed surmounts.
Her hair is flying here and there;
She hasn't thought of care.

Her little sister, Margaret Rose
Thro'...

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Crystal clear do I see that sunlit glade
Wherein our first act of love was made
Your quick,panting breaths heightened my ardour
As we embraced in our cosy,clinging arbour
When your soft lips melted into mine
As strong and ...

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'Twas on a sunny day in May
Along the banks of Fundy Bay
When I met… my dearest Anthony

From a distance…I could see
His rugged frame…and symmetry
And the glint of Irish eyes…of bluish green

With manly strides… he lingered...

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I turned slowly around and met tears on the wind
As from tattered cloud memories I heard once again
Every verse of the poetry we once composed
As we bathed in life’s whispers, so safe from life’s pain
When...

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New Year's Midas Touch

You have the Midas touch in 2016!
My antennas stood up, my neck did preen
Like I had swallowed centre shock
My two lamps glistened and head did rock
I sucked in a deep breath allowing...

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Sleep beckons with its gentle arms,
Wrapping slowly in comfort,
Gently drawing the weary in,
To its nightly embrace.
Dreams of midnight gardens,
Are lit by the fireflies
Dancing among the scented arbour,
With their flickering light.
The moonlight dances flittingly,
Through the rustling...

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Four loving daughters of mother earth unique,
Angelic features, each brings her own boutique,
Return every year to spend time with mother,
Enticing her with their charms and the weather!
Winter is the fairest, showers her with snow,
Every Christmas...

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My heart was like a barren land,
deprived of being loved and loving emotions
that could quench my drought of loneliness.
Thorny bushes of doubt and despair
pricked me day and night,
leaving me helplessly to bleed pain.

It all changed...

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Last night I dreamt
That the world was all at rest
From vice exempt
Filled with songs of mortals blessed
(Refrain)
And we waltzed to the strains of a song
'Neath the arbour of love and repose
Glad in heart at the...

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"Come into my garden my love and
Taste its choice fruits; delicacy of refine.
Consume the harvest of years gone by
And drink the new wine laid before you

Let us feast under loves arbour;
Rest your hand in the...

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Hitchhiking by blurred station generic
Gypsy Flora slips anonymous, gravel
Grinds her heart of garbage, barbaric
Buried skeleton stirred, further travel 
Ticket to Keep It Secret

Scarred in fish guts grubby, harbour 
Heaves its putrid out to sea, amnesia...

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Red maple reddening still further
Yellow and green hug in arbour
Shadow of sugar maple in water
Pink murmur in aroused lake

Black tupelo in colour avalanche
Many a shade on the same radiant branch
Magenta and orange in chocolate romance
In...

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This belle epoch awakes resemblance
With times of plague in dark-bound books
Allegedly, we’re on dependence
Of history, with all its hooks
I doubt this cliche, however
This comer is a bit too smart
And so it smells he’d stay forever
Being...

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Thou gentle May that barest me one day,
Thou month of loveliness and darling flowers,
Didst fill my heart with gaiety when I lay
Upon the cradle in my home for hours.
There in the yard I saw my...

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white is the new snow
it colours land with pureness
fresh and crisp to touch

Pristine snow lay over the fields clothing it in white crystals
soft piles of deep drifts abound the hedges 
the simple beauty of the...

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I alight from my parked car 
Ecstatic at the fragrance
Of my night jasmine bowers
Guarding my iron gate

The aromatic tree is a perfumery
At midnight it starts budding
By dawn in full bloom drizzling
A white and saffrony carpet...

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Shards of silver spliced the sky
while my sister went to gather
laundry fluttering on the line 
between two swaying Aspens.

But the fierce southeasterly 
proved too much
for one of the colossal pair
old and pock-marked, it slowly careened
then...

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Days spent searching for the Sangreal;
that I, may put my lips to where,
the Holy Lips last touched.

Cup of Life,
my faith a-harbour.
Cup of Love,
my seed you arbour.

So many truths untold?
Or was it just, for I,
so caught...

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She has been waiting in the wings
now, at last, it is her time to shine
slowly the bud opens to the mornings
sun, petals each reaching for sunshine

The glorious drone of the worker bees
as they rush from...

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