Long Jacarandas Poems
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Too Far From PerfectSeeing the spring flowers
with colors so intense and alive,
makes me praise their Creator even more;
amazed and breathless,
unable to find any imperfection
in all that lies under the infinite sky!
By the winding path, under a fluttering willow...
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Categories:
jacarandas, natureme, spring, me, spring,
Form:
Narrative
I Remember YouI Remember You
Yes, I remember you,
the dark-skinned girl,
dressed in tight corduroy,
unzipped on the floor there.
You were my lover that night in 1970;
We were wrestling
so smoothly, so passionately,
in the old brick house on...
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Categories:
jacarandas, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Young Woman At Her SillShe dreamt in smoky salmon clouds of dawn,
forsaking violets of bitter truth,
that he had stayed and not to heaven gone
still in the cherry blossom of his youth,
that umber hair and eyes he still possessed
and held...
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Categories:
jacarandas, grief, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
Melissa Lont 1825 - 1911Melissa Lont
1825 - 1911
How does one as low and humble as I
Sum up my life of 86 years
In a mere poem as brief and short-lived
As life itself?
And what is the secret to my long life?
What...
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Categories:
jacarandas, death,
Form:
Epitaph
Last NightLast Night
Look up there.
Do you see the seven sisters?
The night is unusually warm.
I hear speeding cars going down Broadway.
The freight train is screeching across Canobie.
Purple-blooming jacarandas cry petals of rejection.
You sat on the curb and...
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Categories:
jacarandas, memory,
Form:
Free verse
MirageI once read a poem. It’s style was different than mine. Then I thought. Won’t it be nice to write about jacarandas & marigolds. Spices and all that taste nice. I...
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Categories:
jacarandas, life, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
City of TreesCity of Trees
1
Johannesburg, home to ten million trees,
It’s the world’s largest urban arboretum.
Streets in summer lie beneath green canopies.
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From sidewalks their branches meet with ease
And soon, very soon, each street’s a shady sanctum.
Johannesburg, home...
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Categories:
jacarandas, environment,
Form:
Villanelle
Cellphone MonologueCellphone monologue
I’ve been driving, you know the road is no highway,
how taxing, skirting potholes, cajoling the new jalopy
will be there for a candle lit supper, come what may.
Out of the glare, jacarandas form a fragrant...
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Categories:
jacarandas, black love, break up, heartbreak, sad love,
Form:
Sonnet
One Hundred LamentsTrading the sweetness, a rainbow
on icefalls, you will come back on rocks
and drink the elixir of death.
A fantastic dream of soap bubbles in a tumbler,
ejecting the inky grief on the transparent glass.
The pink goddess of...
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Categories:
jacarandas, adventure, allegory, angst, animals, anniversary, art
Form:
I do not know?
One Hundred LamentsTrading the sweetness, a rainbow
on icefalls, you will come back on rocks
and drink the elixir of death.
A fantastic dream of soap bubbles in a tumbler,
ejecting the inky grief on the transparent glass.
The pink goddess of...
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Categories:
jacarandas, art,
Form:
ABC