Cypress Tree
In the corner a budding
Cypress tree
with leaves sailing in the wind,
Making the place fresh
around ole houses,
Before Christ until the war,
Like happy children.
Columns and old temples,
White, shining in the sun,
and statues half-broken
What are they saying
about the old heroes and wisemen,
Wards and battles
and about the teenagers
dancing at the disco?
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
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| Title | Comments | Submitted |
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| Title | Comments | Submitted |
| Wait! Spring | 0 | 04/09/2017 |
| Disappeared | 0 | 09/11/2016 |
| Blistering Lips | 0 | 07/18/2013 |
| Glance | 0 | 12/22/2012 |
| Sorry | 0 | 09/15/2011 |
| Day and Night | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Velvet Leaf | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Paradise | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Cypress Tree | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Be Yourself | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Farmer | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Freedom | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Paradise | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Geometric Lines | 0 | 08/29/2011 |
| Old Man Walking Old Dog | 0 | 07/23/2011 |
| Wise, Win, Kind | 0 | 06/22/2011 |
| Terpsichore | 0 | 08/15/2010 |
| City Alive | 1 | 05/29/2010 |
| Surrender to Myself | 1 | 05/29/2010 |
| Everything Nothing | 0 | 05/29/2010 |
| My Poem for 2009 | 0 | 12/29/2009 |
| Cat and Ball | 4 | 01/22/2009 |
| Passion | 4 | 12/17/2008 |
| Quality Man | 4 | 12/17/2008 |
| Pashmina Scarves | 1 | 12/16/2008 |
| I Dream of You | 2 | 12/11/2008 |
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