John Lars Zwerenz Poems

Comme Dieu et déesse de

la grande porte d'OR, LE DIAMANT a mené à bien.
J'ai été témoin des pétales de rose, OUVERT UN PAR UN,
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THE BLACK NIGHT

The sun by the ocean
Always filled me with dread. -
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A SUMMER'S EVE

Once upon a summer's eve,
Alone in my chamber of solemn rue,
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THE PRINCESS BY JOHN LARS ZWERENZ

Gales of incense,
Gales of thyme,
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A POEM COMPOSED IN HEAVEN

Heaven is of golden cabins, clad with redolent, diamond snow.

Gilded, angelic streams, through tall, slender grasses flow
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Violets {A Sonnet}

The azure billows of the turquoise bay
Rise to the heights of the brilliant sun,
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THE PALACE WHERE SHE DWELLS

Roving on the bright, spacious lawn of the palace,
I have come to behold the lady in white,
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WHERE MY LADY DWELLS

Wandering on the vast, spacious court of the palace,
I have come to behold the princess in white,
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THE DUCHESS {A SONNET}

In the softness of the warm and sunny, sunlit spring,
Up high, upon the dappled cradle of a terrace,
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On the wooly fleece of a wide, wintry down
When powdered, descending, white, crystal snow
Graced every hemlock and pine as I did go
Roving blissfully and cheerful on a frosted lane to town.
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