Long Dalia Poems

CHILDREN OF THE SUMMER GARDEN

In the lazy days of summer
 When heat streams up in afternoons
Come into the season’s garden –
 Nature’s outdoor living room.

Early riser, blue Morning Glory vine
 Opens at dawn and sometimes...

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*From the day your eyes threw a spell on me, i became yours
*You rejected me many times, but dear, I never gave up ,
*I knew that it's our destiny to be for each other, I...

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JERUSALEM
Collaboration with Dalia Shahein (Jordan). Posted here on PoetrySoup, 04/21/2017

I, First
My Salem, my shalom, maybe yours as well -
Be well; build a well again – we’ll all be well, or
Better than before in Jerusalem of...

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JERUSALEM 
Collaboration with Dalia Shahein (Jordan)

I, First
My Salem, my shalom, maybe yours as well -
Be well; build a well again – we’ll all be well, or
Better than before in Jerusalem of the heart
Whose Jerusalem made...

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*Oh babe, we now have three beautiful children that we admire
*We've fought through pain , we've fought to build our dreams , our love was never tired
*We lived like we wanted to be , two...

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"To her, whose beauty eludes the charms of words"


I sat with her as she worked, trying to scribble some words on an innocent paper
The looks on her face captivated me, as the tip of her...

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Every one struggles each day to pass through life's walls 
and often we hit our heads many a time in search for doors 
To renew our strength and faith we need to defeat the silence...

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You came and looted my heart
I didn't own it, you stopped it from falling apart
Executing easily such heist
And leaving me with thirst
For your sinful hands again to struck the strings of my heart


Your glances leave...

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The word of beauty I never thought about it
For me it always meant you
The word of trust I have never doubt it
For me it meant all the things you do
The word of nice and forgiveness...

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My daughter made her entrance
while in the heavens Hale Bop danced
We lived high up on a mountain
and the signs weren't great
the car had broken down again
I guess you'd call it fate

Is there room at the...

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As I sit on the bench, watching nature's lively moments,
The Tufted Titmouse, Chickadee and Nuthatch look at me
Their small beady eyes are staring in the air
The Robin bounce near the Mourning Dove on the lawn
I...

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Keep our planet green,
 
There is an ancient forest,

Let’s cut down the trees!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
   11 September 2015

NOTE: Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Dalia Hashad-Avaaz org, informing me that “A 500 year...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
But only elegant people can have beauty in their eyes
Only great people can compliment another
And bad ones see with eyes that is sly
Trying to judge using their own...

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When the leaf falls from a dying tree
in the brisk autumn breeze,
It seems to sprout wings 
like a fledgling that spreads its wings
and sets off from its nest to explore
the wide expanse of the free...

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