by Tim Smith |
Categories:
love,
A pre-lit Christmas tree sparkles the entrance
Monet, Van Gough, and Wassily Kandinsky prints
adorn the walls of her sitting room
a dozen painted roses sit in a faux crystal vase
and the smell of apple pie lingers in the air
coming from her Scentsy candle warmer
resting upon her replica baby grand piano
The seconds tick loudly from the tree house looking cuckoo clock
as I wait
patiently I wait
down the stairs she comes
waltzing ever so gracefully
ever so elegant
in her bright flowing yellow dress
accented by beautiful costume jewelry
my heart skips a beat
as we kiss hello
and I know
yes I know
This love is real
by Anne-Lise Andresen |
Categories:
angst, feelings, humorous,
Jealousy is not the fear of losing
but the feeling that our position is threatened
As wet sand between your toes, unwanted
Sometimes jealousy turns into obsession
There are many wars, love your enemies ... never
We fight for love as a tender and small sparrow
Bitter taste, there is a fly in the soup
17.01.2017
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by L'Nass Shango |
Categories:
philosophy
Glacial ice melting
The climate suddenly changes
Old relationships.
When the blue jay sings
Listen how wide it ranges
The boundary of spring.
After rain rainbow
Thunder makes the coastland smile
Faith provides the oil.
So I map landscapes
With audacity to see
Change, a boomerang.
I search through petals
To find a woman's soft heart
Felt a bumbled sting
No bridge left to cross
Love drowns everything in tears
So the cuckoo sings
by Ibohal Kshetrimayum |
Categories:
allusion, animal, appreciation, april, art, assonance, autumn,
'When did you wake up?' You once asked.
The blind laughed in my heart, and
I fell in love.
A dream escaped, but your hairs
Darkened its path.
When we make love
I hear a sea roaring in your curls, and
Feel an animal on your skin.
In the needles of rain, eyes are missing,
And a burning river rushes out of your crevice.
While a cuckoo cries for moon drops,
Dawn comes with a yawn,
And the coconut tree bends to comb
Your disheveled clouds while I
Search for my succumbed heart
In crumpled pillows.
I see you flying away,
And I drink mountains from a bottle
Of sunsets, thinking about you
Until I hear the moon
Moaning for a window.
by M Asim Nehal |
Categories:
love, song, sound, , Lullaby,
Shall I compare your voice with sweet notes of cuckoo
Or with the voice of nightingale
Or whistle of a parrot
Or drops of water on tin roof
The melody of love is what I search on
When mother sings lullaby
Angles descend to hear yet they hear not
Thus thy voice resembles mockingbird’s voice,
Or is it like Malabar whistling by a schoolboy
I hear nothing when I see two lovers
Sitting arms in arms without sound
just the silence in between them
When love blossom from the ashes of dunes
There is a complete silence
And this silence is the sound of love...
by Pushpa Palanchoke |
Categories:
love,
Love came and went-
lovers hummed bitter-sweet symphonies
my ears full of buzz,
eyes full of tears,
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suddenly, I hear cuckoo singing me melodies-
singing of rain; monsoon and drain-
of green hills, valleys and plains,
of seasons that go and come again,
deserts turning oasis, no barren they remain-
of light and love that I started seeing in this maiden.
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by Lara Wash |
Categories:
crazy,
When we decided to be one, we two
Our love was like crazy glue
I don’t think we were created to love and fight hard
Because it creates a cycle of end and start, which is no good for the heart
Our bond was so sticky even when I wanted to leave
Our cohesiveness was like a rich man’s greed
But one day crazy glue met reality
And she became unglued instantly
She felt free and revitalized
When she realized
Crazy glue
Made her cuckoo
So she flew
The cuckoo’s nest
Now she can attest
It’s not good to invest
In craziness
by Farrah Veronica Sinha |
Categories:
love,
We met by chance and fell in love,
Where do we go from here now...
Will we ride the skies on an angel’s wings?
Or make love at dawn while the cuckoo sings,
Where do we go from here?
Can’t make it through a single day without you,
Or feel the velvet grass beneath me
See the satin stars above me
Move a single step without you
Take a single breath without you
The whole world may fall apart
But I’m in love, oh! Happy love!
Where do I go from here now...
-----Love----
by Aliza Kashmala Kiran |
Categories:
beauty, daffodils, morning, sunshine, wisdom,
When Dawn Arrives On Wings Of Morn
Delicate daisies
bathe in crystalline dewdrops
Preparing for dawn...
As dawn broke we warmed
the cuckoo started love songs
Almost romantic
Golden pastels painted
In sweet colours, on the face
Of night as it slowly fades.
by Manel Gunatillake |
Categories:
winter,
"The summer has come"
"The summer? It is the spring now"
"Yes I know, but for me it is summer"
"Why?" she asked giggling
"When you are beside me,
The world is very colourful,
The cuckoo sweetly sings,
The flowers blooms in many colours,
You have come to my winter,
With your spring and summer,
You filled my heart with flames of love,
I hear nothing but your sweet melody,
My heart was once laden with melancholy,
They all are evaporated
With your warmth,
I can embrace and hide inside you,
But I have to leave very soon,
I may not return, my time is up.
Then whom will you warm?"
" There will be many
Come for my warmth
The way you came to this geisha girl"
by Frances Schiavina |
Categories:
june,
June is knocking
at the door
dressed in fragrant
summer gold
cherry blossoms
cuckoo songs
bathing suits
volleyballs
riding waves
spitting salt
live music
at the shore
sunset sky
smiling friends
dancing
barefoot
on the sand
closed books
open shores
bloom in June
roses and love.
by Dr. Upma A. Sharma |
Categories:
magic, spring,
I reply to the song of cuckoo, my favourite bird,
Sun shines brilliant and then clouds take their turn,
Blossoms at trees carpet as breeze swiftly stirred,
Cheerful chase of butterflies ends on evening return,
A spring day rescues all from a summer burn !
Trees leaves and grass all go intense in green,
Promising for youth to retrieve optimistic room,
Chirpy birds float and fly and reattain their sheen,
Passion of first love that eats up all the gloom,
A Spring day even can turn cacti bloom !!
Written on 17/4/14
by Terry Miller |
Categories:
jealousy,
You dwell in the shadow
of the prodigal.
You did before he left,
too, when he was away.
Now, he has returned
to joyous rapture.
Huzzah, huzzah;
you shrink a little further.
Though eagerly welcomed home
not all return reborn in penitence.
Some,
after taking in the seven sins,
come back;
to hide among their brothers;
stealing needed love;
because they can.
You know that he sins still;
yet cannot utter to a soul.
This cuckoo.
Not to break your father's heart;
best yours is torn;
again.
You dwell in the shadow
of the prodigal.
by Harry Horsman |
Categories:
nature,
the cuckoo in spring
needs to suss out homely nest
comes with baring gifts...
adoption not an option
a brood parasite in lieu
17/2/2022
Entered a Brian Strand Tanka contest.
by Probir Gupta |
Categories:
analogy, art, bird, blue, color, image, metaphor,
Out of you I make my birds of colors
And set them free for your windows open
As I know you look to them in keen eyes
Thus my searching glances can meet your sky
Maple trees ruffled clouds love to stop them
Buds in bowls on roof top always love them
I do know you wait in your nice canoe
To row and raise waves of red and blue hue
Some love humming bird some lark some cuckoo
You love sea gulls in your light green terrace
To get time is hard after handling chores
Still when pink and passionate beaks peck at
You are almost a peach to love the bites
The game between writes and pen is lovely
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July 1, 2016
by Mitchell Griswold |
Categories:
life, love hurts, romance, romantic, romantic love, sad love,
I love, I live
by M. Griswold
04182020
I love, I live in an interim of time, a moments rhyme.
One foot forward and a foot behind, suspended in time.
A place not past nor future tense but of a middle space.
My spirit caught in the center of an existence's grace.
Crying for that which I have cheaply given away.
Longing for that which I will surely gain someday.
But for now I have such an amount of little either.
I live and love in stillness's shallow nowhere neither.
Multiple zones of which I'm a single resident apart.
They tear at me and my fragile, pale, lonely heart.
When will my cuckoo clock start to tick in whole.
So that I may live and love as one fully, solid soul.
by M Asim Nehal |
Categories:
heart, love, sound, , Lullaby,
Shall I compare your voice with sweet notes of cuckoo?
Or with the voice of nightingale
Or whistle of a parrot
Or drops of water on tin roof
The melody of love is what I search on
When mother sings lullaby
Angles descend to hear yet they hear not
Thus thy voice resembles mocking bird’s voice,
Or is it like Malabar’s whistling by a schoolboy
I hear nothing when I see two lovers
Sitting arms in arms without sound
just the silence in between them
When love blossom from the ashes of dunes
There is a complete silence
And this silence is the sound of love...
by Sumedha Anand |
Categories:
depression, , Lullaby,
The touch of a mother I long,
The hug of a father I trust
The words of a lullaby sung like a cuckoo song
I want to hear them again!
Take me to my parents, to the heaven of love
To love them one last time
Hug me,O death, for I'm not so tough
I want to see them again...
So hard you be so be my lord!
But take me to them one last time
Take me to my parents my love, my life, my god
I want to live with them one last time...
Take me, take what stops you?
Take me, take my life, my breath
And if that does not suffice, then take the entire world too
Please, give them to me again!
Just one last time...
Just one last time...
by Andrew Crisci |
Categories:
addiction, anti bullying, betrayal, character, cheer up, emotions, funny,
WOW! His belly is full and can't BELCH!!
HAHA! He's gone mad and makes a BANG!
OOPS! His wife's Sprite makes a SPLASH!
YEAH! Hear the fireworks, they make a BAM!
OOSH! She throws water balloons that POP!
WHAM! Keep away from a dangerous POW!
POOF! She' makes him disappear with a ZAP!
YEAH! Take a bath filthy pig, don't BABBLE!
OMG! Sing happy Karaoke lyrics, not SLAM!
GARGLE! Hygiene is a must, don't MUMBLE!
WTF?! Don't piss me off, I love to SMASH!
TIC-TAC! Stop that cuckoo clock, ACHOO!
by Vasudevan Desikachari |
Categories:
love,
spring's first rain
Jacobin cuckoo
there she is
by Christuraj Alex |
Categories:
life, love, nature,
As though treasure lost
Cuckoo chirps in rhyme hiccups
Eggs lay in crow’s nest
She knows crow will care her chicks
For mother, every child’s hers
Does cuckoo trick crow
Persuading care for her chicks
Could one fully know
Nature’s rhythm that calculates
The roles of cuckoo and crow
While crow shelters all
Cuckoo brings food abundant
Each one protects all
No true parasitism found
Agape is the norm profound
N/A’ d in Brien Strand’s, ‘All Yours (April 24)’.
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by Delice Arleen Skelly |
Categories:
funny love, humorous,
Popeye
Loves Olive he makes her sigh
Passion endures it will not die
Spinach the key don't ask why.
Olive Oil
Fell sick with humongous boil
She almost shook off this mortal coil
Popeye went cuckoo her death he did foil.
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by Anais Vionet |
Categories:
analogy, cute love, teen, teen love,
I’m Imagining a place where we make sense - the hot-chocolate
safe-house where we’ll tongue wrestle, watch Gossip Girl reruns
and cuddle - sustained by love and Cinnamon Life cereal.
This dark, coffin-like clock in the corner whirrs, mechanically.
Suddenly a little yellow-clock-bird bursts, jumping-jack-like,
through a tiny door on a blue, tongue-suppressor diving board.
“Cuckoo!” it shrieks, to mock me. “Shut up!” I say defensively
but it repeats, “Cuckoo!” like an oracle - an unfeeling instrument
of adult logic.
by Satish Verma |
Categories:
life, love, peace, philosophy, planet,
They manipulated the words
to cross the corridors of essence.
Crib was empty, child was stolen.
At blood stained altar
there was no clue to mystical death.
The contents now matter. Time
displays tools of murder,
snaps the sheet from the bed,
kills the neophyte at water hole,
unsucked breast swells, weeps endlessly.
Apes are coming.
Duplicates look brilliant like novae.
It was becoming crowded. Becoming
was destroying the matter. Fear
moves in water, on the earth.
Faraway a cuckoo sings
a saddest song.
Come, belong to my tears, drops
of my soul’s vessel, kiss the eyes
of planet earth.
SATISH VERMA
by Cynthia Alvez |
Categories:
lost love,
Ablaze under the glare
of a 60 watt bulb...
The tea kettle whistles
for the third time.
You said you'd be here by 12
But that was two yesterdays
Ago!
And the clock goes Cuckoo
Cuckoo
Cuckoo!!!
Cynthia