Wallpaper
...My magical Chinese garden
was small:
tiny willows
pagodas
and mulberry trees
emerging serenely
from the mist
pastelwise
like Shangri-La over and over
on the far side of
an equally diminutiv...
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Categories:
pagodas, childhood, imagination, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
pagodas, appreciation, beauty, flower, light,
Form: Concrete
A Magical Tune
...Sunflower Meadows was a place of mystical beauty, green and abloom.
That's where seven-year-old Ava lived, like laughter and spicy perfume.
Ava lived with her parents and three siblings, ...
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Categories:
pagodas, animal, child, fantasy, magic,
Form: Couplet
A Land Where East Meets West
...Written 19 November 2023
No. 1259 New Poems Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Stand
A Land Where East Meets the West
In a world where...
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Categories:
pagodas, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
A Pilgrimage
...seagulls surf the wind
my escorts home
across the waves
streamlined gannets
sacred isle in view
saffron tints
ocean flower breeze...
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Categories:
pagodas, mountains, ocean, peace, sea,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
pagodas, bird, flying,
Form: Haiku
Home, Hearts and Seagulls
...HOME, HEARTS,AND SEAGULLS
Home to the heart of me
Never in violins, never in clouds
But always in smoky blue skies
Above seas spinning white waves of foam
Sunsets never let me down
Eveni...
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Categories:
pagodas, heart, home, love,
Form: Free verse
Fantasia
...I. O my children,
All the faithful,
Heed the call,
Hear the sanction...
The ancient eldritch plea
Gathering from the thousand shadowed places,
Plazas, pagodas, pavilions...
Reach out, s...
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Categories:
pagodas, angel, autumn, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
All Have Been Gone
...Based on the famous linguist, poet Humayun Azad Sir's poem "SAB KICHU NOSHTODER ODHIKARE JABE". However, it is not an exact English translation from Bengali. Edited in different places with tense. Ap...
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Categories:
pagodas, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Make There Garden of Unity
...o yes
let there be flowers garden on the land of
mosques, temples, pagodas, guruduras, churches....
yes, there I find same
sands, stones, bricks, walls, domes, prayer places....
and same human...
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Categories:
pagodas, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Lookouts Gone Down
...Born of smoke and fire glow
In those blazing summers of long ago
Little mountaintop pagodas
Wooden cabs with cute cupolas
Guardians of the grand Sequoia
Douglas fir and ponderosa
Where vigil ...
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Categories:
pagodas, lost,
Form: Alliteration
Zen Splendour
...Pagodas and trees reflect on the still lake,
which is still and undisturbed. If you take
a keen look at the lake,
you'll see the sky and birds.
When it is night,
you'll see the moon and star...
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Categories:
pagodas, beauty, creation, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Cheer
...By lakeside path
Such windy stuff
Feel the cool breeze
Funnel fond squeeze
Sun now sparkles
Fluid lake dazzles
Glimpse far away
Sensorial play
Twin pagodas
Flash agenda
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Categories:
pagodas, allegory,
Form: Couplet
Los Angeles, Time Unknown
...City across the water, night by violet aurora
Los Angeles, we're further south than I thought (than we should be)
I take a strewn-bark trail to get a better view
Hand me the camera, Polaroids in q...
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Categories:
pagodas, city,
Form: Free verse
Lifers
...50 years ago I would have said
life was swollen with promise
as I awaited your return
from a land of bicycles,
Pagodas, potato vendors
and "Hiah, Hiah, Mushee, Mushee,
Hononea, Hononea."*
40...
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Categories:
pagodas, celebration, children, dream, family,
Form: Free verse
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