White flowers of East
Scents of ethereal angels
Small petals that ease
Gyrates in the air that please
Blossoms underneath that heaps
You bloom and beam
and worship the rain
the sun, the Sky.
Flower of beauty,
though fleeting
as a smile,
you're truly eternal
even for just the
shortest while!
dewy, white petals,
its own oblation,
its mute gratitude,
its solemn prayer.
enigmatic epitome
of quiet beauty,
it beams, blooms,
worships the sky.
ah, sampaguita,
celestial fragrance,
eternal for the
shortest while !!
Sampaguita...for the shortest while, eternal;
blissful enigma, serene beauty,
paradisiacal.
Dew-kissed white petals lift its fragrant oblation,
gratitude, prayer and hope
of a troubled nation.
Blossoming, beaming upward to see the sky smile,
Sampaguita...eternal for the shortest
while!
for the shortest while, eternal,
as an enigma of the epitome
of quiet beauty,
dewy, serenely white petals
as its oblation, its gratitude,
its prayer,
as it beams, blushes, blooms,
Sampaguita, fragrant,
eternal, for the shortest while!
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