Well-favored Winter Jasmine,
how have you managed to survive?
It's long past the briskness of Autumn days.
Yet, your exquisite beauty lingers, and you thrive,
lovely petals still intact when you shouldn't be alive.
Oh, wondrous Winter Jasmine,
your plant has lost leaves of jade green.
Such a picturesque paradox within my garden,
botanical glowing when moonlight casts a sheen
upon you, creating the glint of a glimmering scene.
My perfect Winter Jasmine,
as white as the day you bloomed
on your stout stem you still stand tall,
scenting the air around you, softly perfumed.
Visions of you laced with snow, my eyes consumed.
Winsome Winter Jasmine,
I fear you're encapsulated in ice.
Not grown in freezing tundra on earth
like alpine flowers of stark white, edelweiss.
I hope your stunning show has not been a sacrifice.
Enduring Winter jasmine,
I hope you remain until Spring.
When you are warmed by the sun,
to your greening bush will you still cling,
attracting pollen seekers; honeybees on the wing?
Categories:
well favored, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Woe to the bloody city
it is full of lies and rapine
the prey departed not
the noise of the whip and
the noise of rattling of wheels and
prancing horses and bounding chariots
the horseman mounting and
the flashing sword and the glittering spear and
a multitude slain and a great heap of corpses and
there is no end of the bodies, they stumble upon their bodies
because of the multitude of the whoredome
of well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcraft that sell
nations through her whoredomes and families through her
witchcraft, woe to the bloody city
how dreadful of you
your hands are filthy, you wear shoes as hard as a gong
whom you step on breaks. your heart is as hard as steel
your eyes sees only hurt and death
OH! precious city where does your beauty lies?
Categories:
well favored, bible, city, community,
Form: Lyric
"Hello I'm Johnny Cash" his warm hearted greeting;
they knew it was the man in black they were meeting.
And this color black is also well favored
by those whose lifestyle is "goth" flavored.
Ladies all over have closets brimming
with black clothes which are supposedly slimming!
There's the black heart of the liar and cheater
which makes the other lovers seem sweeter.
The black jellybean stands out from the rest
there in it's Easter basket nest.
In black of night I wrote this all down;
might be the most versatile color around!
By Deb Wilson
for contest"The Colors Have It"
sponsored by Russell Sivey
Categories:
well favored, imagination, people, easter,
Form: Couplet