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CA Guilfoyle Jul 2012
The morning sang to meadow-ed fields
mountains hummed the clouds far off,
skies went wildly blue
Strolling fragrantly in the cutting rows
lavender florets fell between dreaming toes
Scented mounds infused the path
provence, grosso, royal velvet, I chose
Woody stemmed grey, green, blue
bent breaking fragrance in the heated dew
Cabbage moths danced to singing bees
daydreaming
- I flew in lavandula breeze
Went amongst bees today in the lavender fields...I guess it's as close as I'll come to feeling like a bee!
they buzzed all around me, it was magical!
NDevlin Mar 2012
Buy me chrysanthemums
Not lavandula or geraniums
Or phalangium with their low hanging bulbs
Why don’t you know I love chrysanthemums!

Chrysanthemums, Dahlia…Hera…Willow?
Lillian! Lillian,
How could I take chrysanthemums from Lillian?

You should know. I shouldn’t have to say anything! You should know.

Buy me Viognier
Not Muscat or Chardonnay
Or Furmint with its corky taste
Why don’t you know I love Viognier!

Viognier, Vionnier…Vienne…Vienna?
Dalmatia! Dalmatia,
How could I take Viognier from Dalmatia?

You should know. I shouldn’t have to say anything! You should know.

Dalmatia, near Sibenik
From where I dine on scallops,
Or do you not know that I love scallops?
If not then you should know that I love fickle, false and fair
It’s my nature and you are my nurture
If you did not know then know this, love’s a hapless farce
MARIA PANOUTSOU Mar 2017
ΕΛΠΗΝΩΡ  ΙΙ


Τι να πω και τι να ομολογήσω
σε μια πέτρα βάζω φτερά
στο   όνειρο ρίχνω πυκνή φωτιά
αφήνω  ψηλά το ενύπνιο αυτό
να γύρει να πλαντάξει σε βουνό κρυφό
συχνά στους πρόποδες βρισκόμουν,
θα μείνω
να αισθανθώ ποια είμαι και τι  κάνω
και έμεινα σκεπτόμενη  την άλλη μέρα
πως  είναι να διαβώ μια ξένη χώρα,
πέρα
να φύγω από λάθη  στεναγμούς
να κολυμπώ σε άδεια βάθη  λυτρωμούς
και τότε είδα ένα άστρο να θολώνει παγερά  
δεν ήταν το φως που στέρεψε στερνά
αλλά τα δυο μου μάτια κλειστά και αρνητικά  
και είπα δυο λέξεις  μαγικές  να ομορφύνει το σκοτάδι
κάθε μου πράξη και  αίσθημα μέσα στο βράδυ    
μα ξύπνησα  
από όνειρο  και μ ένα χαμόγελο  πίσω από  το στόμα
καθώς η μέρα άρχιζε με ένα βιβλίο του Ελπήνορα  
μικρό με φύλλα  από καπνό, λεβάντα, φαγωμένα  


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Kevin Mar 2017
look beyond, where lavandula wildly grows in fields of fonder
look beyond, where silk weaves between trees of deepened shade
look beyond, where electric snow coldly hums a muffled word
look beyond, where salted mists lift above a cresting swell
look beyond, where glass dances with mountainously airy leaps
look beyond, where green is all the eye can see
look beyond, where lamps light cannot reach
look beyond, where limits end
look beyond all of this to glimpse the hidden parts of me.

look beneath those beyonds
look beneath those glimpse's
look beneath those hidden parts
look beneath all of this to see a little more of me.

even after beyond those things
even after beneath those glimpse's
even after seeing all of this
you'll never see all of me.

— The End —