Quotes about cherry, page 15
Rode to a Knight Impale - after John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
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My part aches and a rousing stiffness pains
my whole as though viagra I had drank,
or loosened up some pheronomic chains
split seconds past, endorphined, anticipating prank.
'Tis not through envy that I ask a lot,
but seeking through your image happiness,
love-lipped epitome of all that please
amused muse stays aware that what you've got
conjurs wet dreams, streams’ ready eddies numberless,
straw hollow swallows spring in full-throated ease.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
fat vat prime time cocked, erect in deep pelvic berth,
tasting of horny fauna’s jelly beans,
dancing tandem to tambourine song since sunny birth!
O for a beaker full of the warm south,
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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Third Book
'TO-DAY thou girdest up thy loins thyself,
And goest where thou wouldest: presently
Others shall gird thee,' said the Lord, 'to go
Where thou would'st not.' He spoke to Peter thus,
To signify the death which he should die
When crucified head downwards.
If He spoke
To Peter then, He speaks to us the same;
The word suits many different martyrdoms,
And signifies a multiform of death,
Although we scarcely die apostles, we,
And have mislaid the keys of heaven and earth.
For tis not in mere death that men die most;
And, after our first girding of the loins
In youth's fine linen and fair broidery,
To run up hill and meet the rising sun,
We are apt to sit tired, patient as a fool,
While others gird us with the violent bands
Of social figments, feints, and formalisms,
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poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Aurora Leigh (1856)
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I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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cherry tree bent –
on grandma's temples
flowering branches
haiku by Alexandru Răduț (2020)
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deep beneath the sea
upon those in deepest sleep
cherry blossom petals fall
haiku by Momoko Kuroda, translated by Abigail Friedman
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Countryside night
Turkeys and chickens
Snooze in the black locust—
The Moon nestled
Among the cherry plums
tanka by Laura Văceanu from Haiku: Magazine of Romanian – Japanese Relationships (2002), translated by Dan Costinaş
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full bloomed cherry plum
bees' buzzing gentle song –
semantron far tones
haiku by Letiţia Iubu from Steps on the Sand (Paşi pe nisip) (2013), translated by Dan Costinaş
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We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
quote by Navjot Singh Sidhu
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cherry blossoms
the moon and I face
each other
haiku by Chenou Liu
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alone with my dog
under the morning sun
cherry blossoms
haiku by Chenou Liu
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