Short Sampaguita Poems

White flowers of East
Scents of ethereal angels
Small petals that ease
Gyrates in the air that please
Blossoms underneath that heaps...

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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!...

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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 !!...

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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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for the shortest while, eternal,
   as an enigma
      of the epitome
         of quiet beauty...

dewy, white petals
   as its oblation,
      its gratitude,
         its prayer...

as it beams and blooms,
   as it worships the sky - -
      sampaguita, fragrant,
         eternal, for the shortest while....

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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!...

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