Cinara
Cinara archive of published lines and poems on Linespedia.
"Silent Sonnet Each year upon me is a wondrous phase Of lingering thoughts in caverns of the mind That unpronounced, yet unimagined phrase That pours from out the dormant pools of time It is for me..."
"A FISHERMAN'S WISH On a clear and silvery night like this The sky is filled with a fisherman's wish A million fish in the heav’ns afar A million hugs and a million stars Sail up to the black of the..."
"You Came Gently to Me You came gently to me as I sat in deep shadows, and wrapped long affectionate arms around me. You lit a candle in the corner of my sorrow, but would not let me rest there. You ..."
"I See Not the Breeze I see not the breeze, yet it touches my face With summertime warmth and refreshing embrace It kicks up the leaves and churns up the seas It blows blackbird wings, yet I see not ..."
"A Poet Loves a Poet A poet loves a poet, for there is a common bond A ring of words strung round the moon and stars, and far beyond A thread that wraps around us all and forms a lyric wreath A mutual..."
"Where Willows Weep Beside the lake where waters sleep And dreams of love in silence creep We watched the evening shadows fall Upon the stillness of it all Sweet twilight laid across the west Its vei..."
"The Most Glorious Bloom To look upon a palette’s hues Of golden bronze, and pastel blues Laid gently on an emerald bed With spattering of scarlet red To see a quilt so neatly sewn And every colored ..."
"Haiku too hard Cinara takes the plunge Tries anyway Walking the Haiku Plank _____ Old rocking chair Squeaking on summer porch Cricket responds _____ On linen sheets, Moon, the only witness As ..."
"The Crimson Rose One day a woman, old and frail, held a rose of crimson red She gently handed me the lovely flower and softly said Look very deeply, dear, into the center of the rose And it will ..."
"The Voice Bundled in a blanket’s wrap In comfort of a winter’s nap I was awakened from a dream Not by a noise, as it would seem Though sleet was crackling on the glass And falling snow was piling fa..."
"Satin Gown Jewels of blue enhance her eye Golden hair reflects the sky Flush of pink on silken face Satin gown with flowing lace Crimson red to wet her lips Pearly glaze on fingertips Finally, to co..."
"Something Small Sometimes our eyes are struck in awe at splendors trivial and small Sometimes the sweetest music heard is in the trill of winter bird The steps of faith are not immense to visit Go..."
"The Lamp Post The moonlight cast upon the street A shadow there forever sketched And footprints carved of lovers’ feet, Where in the dawn a sigh was etched The phrase of love is softly scrolled Upon..."
"I AM I am the one to give you birth To validate your place on earth To tell the tales of who you are And hold the beams of evening star I am the one to give you life And understanding of its s..."
"Hanging On Alligator slowly slides In black and murky bog he hides The creature’s mystery never fades In waters of the Everglades Ever present, ever more This swampland must protect its shore As man..."
"I Walked in the Desert Dusk in the desert where quietness lies Indigo blue under lavender skies Young Golden Eagle in breeze of the night Last beams of sunlight on wings edged in white Sun drops dow..."
"She Walks in Silence She walks in silence with head bowed looking at the floor, always looking downward, never into my eyes. In tunnel vision With no peripheral awareness of those around her What t..."
"Changing My footprint does not represent a footstep of my own I feel my hands are hands that don’t belong to me alone My mind is not the one that was bestowed to me at birth The only thing that still..."
"Dreamers I’m standing in a line, it seems With other souls with other dreams Each one awaits his given turn As moments tick and candles burn And all the eyes are fixed upon The silver gleams on fiel..."
"The Joy of Death Settled for an evening’s rest With head in deep of pillow’s nest I lay with bones still wrapped in ache And eyes just barely in awake An iridescence came to land Upon the smoo..."
"That’s All I Know Each dawn begins with purple skies Each evening bathed in lullabies Some days bring joy and some bring strife And that is what I know of life I see reflected in one’s eyes The ligh..."
"Posy Petals Remnants left of posy red Once pressed between a page Now shriveled down to petal dust Recall another age A posy dead, yet rosy red Still dwells within the eye That I may see its beauty ..."
"You You are the dawning’s first-born shade of light The flush of rose invading skies of night Soft purple hues around the mountain’s edge The golden glows that touch the canyon’s ledge You are the ..."
"I am not the meadows and valleys of your dreams, I am the scent of Jasmine that lingers in the breezes That swirl above them. I am not the golden leaves of autumn spreading a carpet of pleasure at you..."
"The Poet and Me The poet awakens before rising sun And ponders the new day before it’s begun Already the lily has opened to yawn While dark purple skyline is etching the dawn And I, still in slumber..."
"Wedding Night I would not wish you harm in any sense nor sorrow to invade your splendid night For I will bear the heavy pain and plight for both our hearts, And I will, in pretense, put on a veil of ..."
"Love Me for Who I Am Look not at the attire that I wear Look rather at the deepness of my eyes And cherish all the visions waiting there And not the cloth that masks me in disguise Do not regard the..."
"In Between In chasms twenty fathoms deep On ancient floor sea creatures creep Descendants from a former age Surviving turn of every page Translucent blues like gemstones gleam In currents of t..."
"A Moment’s Breath Of bliss and sorrow, this I know That both can penetrate and flow In equal measure of unrest Like stinging lightening through my chest A moment’s breath of reminisce Can launch fro..."
"Again I cannot doubt the path I chose though piercing thorns have marred the rose For I have won a garden’s fill of violet and daffodil But if I lived by my desire I‘d not have walked through stingi..."
"With Age Age has slowly now refined the gracious word, the soul and mind enriched the thought, the verse, the rhyme enhanced the bloom upon the vine It’s not the years, but miles tread that strengt..."
"Touch Me (Thoughts from a Nursing Home) So warm is the touch of your hand pressed in mine So long since I’ve felt this affection divine That rush of elation I’m craving so much That comes with the sm..."
"Embrace of a Poet A greater debt I’ve never paid Than bitter thorns upon me laid More dark the canopy of strife Than all the twilights of my life My tears have worn a weathered hole Into the deepn..."
"Silence silence is a thunder that vibrates the inner ear and echoes in the mellowed chambers of the mind it shears those umbilical connections that breath life and love into the vein and smothers t..."
"Pretty purple lace Just as the redbud spatters woodland edge with pretty purple lace And dogwood pinks and whites in bloom adorn the woods with charming grace So does your love surround my heart Wi..."
"The Day of the Senator A small crowd gathered in the muddy street with apprehension and anticipation Some from the shacks on stilts above the mud flats that lined the fringes of a beautiful bay For..."
"The Things I Love About you Never a spectacle, never a show Small simple pleasures wherever we go We stop for a sunset, forgetting our srife And pass by the major attractions in life A coke and a sa..."
"Unwanted Lady she has wrapped me in a cloak of fear smothering me with with a dark shroud of enclosure causing my body to sweat and tremble and my heart to pump and race like a runaway mustang she..."
"Lady of Want she is on the constant brink of standing on the edge of desire sometimes she sits on the moon and smiles down at me asserting her independence like a confident feline sometimes she floa..."
"Sea Breeze Coconut palm is swinging, dancing, Swaying in the breeze Heavy leaf of mango And the old banana trees Everything is moving To the rhythm of the seas That stirs the mighty ocean waves And ..."
"The Will of the Wind You can’t always blueprint the course of the day With schemes and designs to determine the way For there are some forces from which you can’t hide It’s the will of the wind, and..."
"The Golden Locket He handed her a little box And brushed aside her curly locks A birthday present wrapped in blue A little tag marked “I love you” She looked into his smiling eyes Held to her heart ..."
"There is a Time For every man there is a time to ponder his belief There is a time for butterfly to spread its rainbow sheath For new-hatched bird the time will come to stretch a feathered wing For..."
"Billowing Sails Billowing sails in the soft morning breeze Capture the scent of the blue surging seas Only the wind and the water and I Know of the freedom below mist sky Skimming through waters of ..."
"Greenness of the Earth Step light upon the greenness of the earth For treasured gifts of natures realm are such That floral field and velvet forest fern Are meant for only wondering eyes to touch ..."
"If Not for Tears What is this sorrow, but a fallen tear That washes heartache onto pleasure’s face As eyes unveil the misery and fear Unleashing pain held in an inner place Then, what is joy, but te..."
"Where Willows Sing Where willows sing and swallows call And waters from the foothills fall The purple martin finds a hedge To perch along the water’s edge I placed a gourd, a little dome That he wo..."
"Come Quickly Now Come quickly now and quietly And bring the coming day Twirling in the spaces On a slipper of ballet Around a fiery sphere you twirl And gracefully unveil The floral blooms of April ..."
"Daisy Meadows I loved the sloping meadows and the flowers growing wild The yellow daisies picked by loving fingers of a child I remember from the porch as they were gathering their yield Little hea..."
"I Want To…. I want to sooth you as the mist has bathed forget-me-nots of blue As nighttime haze drops honey wetness drizzling in dew I want to warm you as the rising sun dissolves the morning mist Ra..."
"Yoour Breath, Your Eyes, Your Lips Your breath is soft and warm against my fears As honey words of comfort drown the strife And pain that dwells behind the laden tears Slips lightly to the other sid..."
"A Rosebud I see the flower of beauty in the deepness of your eye Unfolding softly to the starry distance of the sky As though the night surrounds you with a peace you’ve never known For love has touc..."
"Erasing the Universe Golden light sifts through the heartache for only a few soft smiles worth of you, then the sun sets again dipping beyond the reach of contentment leaving an opal moon rising in ..."
"The Snake Charmer With snake charming poems he captures your ear With spicy devices, entices you near They stimulate, fascinate, captivate you Elevate, saturate all that you do How cleverly verses ..."
"If I would have to choose among them all Those moments in my life of greatest worth That made my heart stand still in silent awe I’d have to say the splendor of the earth But most fulfilling was a chi..."
"Two Lovers Met Two lovers met one summer night Enchanting me in sheer delight As I sat still beside a stream They came to meet as in a dream A little moonbeam softly dropped On whispering stream an..."
"BY LANTERN’S LIGHT The summer air had scents of rain The oak held swaying limb And brilliance of the marigold Was quickly growing dim The lawn turned black as evening came The woods were blacker s..."
"Field of Buttercups I’ll never find another field Of buttercups of yellowness Where I can sit by old stone barn In shadows of its mellowness And read my book of poetry In solitude and pensive mood E..."
"Florida’s Golden Coast The hot and bustling southeast coast of Sunshine State A megalopolis of palms and interstate Accommodating more and more incoming mass As alligator lurks below the overpass Th..."