New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
Love
Orange Blossoms
Anne Baldo
You gave me orange blossoms when I was sixteen
Now they are dust, only dead wreaths
You told me you would never leave.
Dreaming, I pretend I was never deceived
Judas, Benedict, Burr and all traitors between
You told me you would never leave.
In glances of strangers I see your eyes gleam
This perished garden offers no reprieve
You gave me orange blossoms when I was sixteen
For a summer you promised me every dream
Then you were gone, a creature of steam
You told me you would never leave.
Some voids never fill, a heart like a sieve
In the end, it’s only faint memories gleaned
You gave me orange blossoms when I was sixteen.
And you were gone when the leaves faded from green
As you walked out the door, I still believed
You gave me orange blossoms when I was sixteen
You told me you would never leave.
Sonnet
John Nause
You see in me that fading time of year
When new horizons should have no allure:
I've known discovery, possessions, fear
Of loss, recovered and learned to endure.
I'd half convinced myself to live out life
In restful solitude, familiar faces,
Untrammeled by new paths or anxious strife,
And not seek out new climes or distant places.
But now I've found, for every man at last
One hill-crest will his fancy overlord
Unlike all others in his dappled past.
He knows this new landscape must be explored.
So calls she forth my hiding heart that I
Must know her love's secrets before I die.
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