Long Poinsettia Poems

Thorns and prickles dangle at the root of the tree and the temperature is shouting at a hundred and seventy degree; destiny is baking a global cake and you have to get your slice before...

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Many years ago this very day
An angel celebrated her birth
She had come to see me once in a dream
But I knew not her existence on earth

No greater gift than the birth of a child
Celebrated with...

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Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude feign death for self-defense! 

Weeping willows with an unreal surreal sorrow
weeping...

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This poem was inspired by the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
Moreover, it is rhymed, very different, and condensed.
Also, it is done from 12 days to 1 rather than 1 day to 12.
This year, I...

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An alchemical raven's gray rhapsody awakens those cynical roses who
Breathe-in the ebony beams of blood-bathed sun, exhaling
Cacophonies that ricochet across these truthful horizons where, 
Depressive roars embalm Lilith's lawns. Awash with smoked prairies and 
Equinoctial...

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Christmas

           A zure Sky rejoiced and glanced on Green Earth.
           B ethlehem Star glistened, glittered...

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My garden is an art of splendour,
I behold her with all my gaiety,
A garden of flowers and hope blossoming alike,
With all its beauty.
 
The buds splutter, 
The mystic mystery unfolds with its glory, 
Giving way...

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Winter is on the tips of her fingers.
Winter is silver on her breath as she exhales,
oxygen stamped with her name, forgotten
as either one,  
stiffening into smoke like her hair
against the twilight.
Her tears are winter...

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UNFINISHED  SENTENCE


At  Sunday  prep  my
boarding school teacher
criticising  my  unfinished sentence .  
No communicated thoughts,  no words . 
Sentenced  to life at fourteen ,
away from home and...

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The tree given to me by an old bird
crashed to the floor as the gray chameleon
who had fixed the wounds of home watched 
in transfixion. 
The corner hit the clock and stopped the past
 and...

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     A Young Poetess and Her Christmas


A~ Ah, the angelic aromas!
B~ We, thinking of the Babe, born today.
C~ That scent of candlelit, candy canes.
D~ Those dashing, December decorations.
E~ Our first taste of...

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The most beautiful Christmas I’ve ever seen
Is this season filled with Christmas colors, red and green
Tinged with white, pink, gold and others like rainbow
In this tropical country where there’s no snow

Poinsettia flowers are blooming everywhere
Cold...

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Bright yellow daffodils,
    Pansies, and gladiolus,
And chrysanthemums;
    Red roses of unique hybrids; 
Orange dahlias, peach tulips, 
    Fuchsia asters, and white lilies;
Blue hyacinths and delphiniums;
 ...

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The time for that change has come to the fore,
When we put away stuff to make room for more.
Ornaments that all year had held sway,
Are now boxed up and safely hidden away.
Our Grandson is coming...

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It's been covered 
by that christmas tablecloth 
for years.
You remember... 
the one with the large poinsettia pattern 
directly in the middle, 
with the cranberry stains decorating 
sporadic spots along the border.

I almost forgot it was...

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The best things that Christmas guarantees
          Are the festive, digestive joys of cheese

No holiday platter is nearly complete
        ...

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kindness in the light of fallen snow
the lights of the county Christmas tree illuminates the night
i stand in front of it in my usually traditional awe
the difference this year is you are not here to...

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bake the goodies
bake the snacks
snack tray covered
snack tray to taste
taste the cookies
taste the candy
candy cane the tree
candy cane the swags
swag the tables
swag the doors
door bell ring
door covered with lights 
light up house
light up tree
tree the...

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What would happen if you embraced the possibility that the God of the Bible really did create the world and really does care for you?

Allow me to be a child again 
even if only in...

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Filled with Jesus-fascination
Pure poinsettia Plantation 
Red, pink, white, salmon and yellow
Cover the fields like a rainbow...! 

Sweet-peas like little butterflies,
Cute cosmic angels in disguise;
Perform ballet dance in cool breeze,
Make baby Jesus feel at ease...!

Does this...

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Oh, Winter it is time for you to put away your white coat,
and to roll up your tattered blanket once so beautiful;
time for me to put away my cozy comforter;
and my red toboggan still dwelling...

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So beautiful, yet poisonous is the poinsettia. 
Protecting herself from us with a vendetta.
We put it out as a center-piece decoration.
Withering away and weakening, during our celebration.

Its magnificent, bright red leaves a stern warning.
Ignored while...

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Candle moments on the mind inside the sanctuary of our thoughts  
A breath of winter falls upon our wanting hearts. 
With the arrival of the winter chill, a red poinsettia in the snow. 
As...

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I love to see you 
and only you this time…
as you spread all over your leaf-liked petals 
like the very bright numerous stars
you'd fallen down magically from the sky
your flaming red on top of green...

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I gave my neighbor a poinsettia plant as a gift
At Christmas two years ago, but now I am miffed!
His apartment is right next door to mine.
The gorgeous red blooms were just divine.

Now he still has...

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