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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RETURN TO FORGOTTEN VALLEY, by BIM MELGAARD First Line: A coffee bush again will bloom Last Line: Because my heart bloomed in this place. | |||
A coffee bush again will bloom, An orange tree spread thick perfume; While, on the wall, grape vines will blow Black shadow-dragons to and fro. When down the mango's varnished leaves The moonlight slides and, on the breeze, Gardenias squander all their sweet, A cobbled path will feel my feet. The stone will bear me but the grass Will bend beneath me as I pass From road to house and house to stream, Treading the ways I've trod in dream. That night I'll touch each tree and vine, Remembering that they once were mine; And kiss a flower's upturned face Because my heart bloomed in this place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ORDER THE DESTRUCTION by BIM MELGAARD WAIKIKI: DECEMBER by BIM MELGAARD WAIKIKI: EVENING by BIM MELGAARD WIND AT KAHUKA by BIM MELGAARD A BARD'S EPITAPH by ROBERT BURNS SONNET: 12 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 7. THE IMPOSSIBILITY by PHILIP AYRES PSALM 19. THE FIRST SIX VERSES by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE STORM by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE BOUT by EVARISTE BOULAY-PATY EPIGRAM ON A ROPE-MAKER HANGED by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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