Childhood

buds of
china flowers
used as
garlands

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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a flower-bud
best growing package
of God

senryu by John Celes
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I Be Or Don't Be (A Song)

I be or don’t be
Would be spreading whiff
As a blossom, As a bud
In the orchard of love
I be or don‘t be

Whatever the weather
I always will be there
To keep the orchard fresh
And in colour of desire
Will be watering it ever
As a blossom as a bud
The orchard of love
I be or don’t be

I will unfurl my shirt
And sway in the breeze
Will glow like flower
On the blossom trees
Would spread fragrance

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poem by S.D. Tiwari
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Pluck not a courtesy in the bud.

English proverbs
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The bud of victory is always in the truth.

quote by Benjamin Harrison
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A Rose-bud advises man…

I asked a rose-bud, ‘who gave you your beauty? ’
And it replied, ‘my mother’s sap gave me! ’
I asked again, ‘who gave your mother plant, its sap? ’
It said, ‘the soil and rain by roots, the sun through leaves! ’
I asked the rose-bud, ‘who gave the soil, sun and rain such abilities? ’
It replied, ‘the One who made all things, and you and me! ’

And now the rose-bud asked me, ‘But why do you ask such questions?
Are you not made beautiful too by the same One,
Who made me, the moon, sky, soil and sun?
And yet, like you, we cannot walk or run! ’

It continued, ‘we plants feel sad we cannot move like how you do! ’
‘We buds grow bigger by each dawn;
The Maker feels so happy when we’re born,
And smiles on seeing us each morn,
Turning ecstatic, when we blossom on,
The landscape to perfume and to adorn –
By morrow, most of us are almost gone! ’

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poem by John Celes
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Tight as a Bud

pinky pink
blood flushed
countenance

florid sakuras
new grown fluid
silky confidence

smile inching buds
tight promises
warm cosiness

morn greetings
blast away
a sun spiralling
over every human
cell

a covered bud
some three moons

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poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Spring rain
my heart jumps
with the myriad buds

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Confused

I see buds on my Bradford pear trees.
It's too early for these tiny buds.
I'm afraid they just might freeze.

They were fooled into thinking winter is gone
for we had a few warm days.
I'm afraid they're just hanging on.

One day sunny, the next so cold
I wonder if they're strong enough
to place their buds on hold?

Confused they must be, just like me.
For I can't figure out what I need
a cold drink or some sweet hot tea?

poem by Edwina Reizer
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I carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

poem by E.E. Cummings
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A Promise

Peach buds swelling
a promise
of golden harvest.

poem by Marites C. Cayetano
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Bud, Bud

A bud sighs a question into the air
The question
Diffuses
Layer by layer
Into another sphere

The bud
Blooms
Into flower

Waiting sadly
It wishes to wither faster
To trace the question
Gone away

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

quote by Eddie Money
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Budding Poets Of This Nation.

I called up serendipity.
But she didn't answer her phone.
So I had to make do
With my usual stroll
For inspiration
Of my own.
I bumped into fate.
He was running late.
Said 'Don't you know'
'I'm flying off on vacation'
Such woe
For budding poets
Of this nation.

Then I saw moon blue.
Surely he'd shine down
Some rhyming hue.
I told him
His crescent was pleasant.
He said

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poem by Kevin East
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Song (1912)

All suddenly the wind comes soft,
And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green,
A nd my heart with buds of pain.

My heart all Winter lay so numb,
The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
Or my heart wake any more.

But Winter's broken and earth has woken,
And the small birds cry again;
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
And my heart puts forth its pain.

poem by Rupert Brooke (1912)
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The begining is bud the end is coconut.

Swahili proverbs
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Transformation

A bud sighs a question into the air
The question
Diffuses
Layer by layer
Into another sphere

The bud
Blooms
Into flower

Waiting sadly
It wishes to wither faster
To trace the question
Gone away

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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TRANSFORMATION

A bud sighs a question into the air
The question
Diffuses
Layer by layer
Into another sphere

The bud
Blooms
Into flower

Waiting sadly
It wishes to wither faster
To trace the question
Gone away

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Not all the buds on a bush will blossom.

Indian proverbs
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Gravel and Mud

Fade into gravel of mud,
Open the festival of a bud.

poem by Naveed Akram
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