THE BASTION BY THE SEA

THE BASTION BY THE SEA

The yard below the bastion holds many blooms;
Swirling, russet leaves around a freshet are blown,
Heavy with a mordant scent, they toss and dance alone,
As sculptures flake beneath palatial rooms.
Beyond the large square, there are woods of rhyme
Where the cloistered pass, musing on books,
Admiring the aesthetic boulders and brooks,
Wandering as gypsies without a dime.
Nearby, the sea, in soft sonority,
Mingles with the twilit, oceanic sky
Of a thousand stars, rising as they sigh,
Ascending with the violet canopy.
And as the sun disperses, all colors correspond,
As grottoes of green grace the boundless beyond.

I GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY

June (Live) 2003 John Zwerenz

THE BLESSED DEAD ARE WE

The Blessed Dead Are We

The grand chess set in the lutescent ballroom
Sits among bookshelves beneath a chandelier.
Outside, on the yew trees, the moonshine does appear.
Death to all of hatred, death to all of gloom.
The ravishing carriages circle in the court,
Amid fallen leaves of mahogany-brown.
I have sent my vassals into town
To acquire burgundies, chablis and port.
Welcome, my friends, come frolic, dance and dine.
Do you recall your passing, as I do mine?
Ah yes!- Love's first kiss has not yet been taken.
This vale is all green, reborn and awoken.
Take a splendid gold piece for a token-

We have no need of it- no more can we be shaken.

THE FOURTEENTH SONNET

THE FOURTEENTH SONNET

In the sibilant evening, soft and moonlit,
Cantillations ascend with appeasement,
Rising with the winds to the dusky firmament;
(This is the hour when heaven's verse is writ.)
The dandelions on the furrow are all aquiver
Beneath the expanding, volcanic clouds;
All the sky is swirling, every pine is clothed with shrouds.
Hemlocks and geraniums weep as they shiver,
As autumn's cold reminds one of graves-
To be delivered from present sorrow.
The furious wind negates the morrow.
All is now prescient- God truly saves.
And the nearby sea foams with an uncanny glee,
As the waves are kissed by the rain, and He.

From Sonnets Of Dusk and Dawn / John Zwerenz / MY LADY

MY LADY

I am taken in my reverie to a wondrous air,
Where a lady passes, by a summery cove,
In the warm afternoon, where breezes rove,
Over the dune, releasing wine upon her hair.

Free of thought, she wanders through bowers,
Bathing in florid rainbows which send
Her longings to where the lindens bend,
By the redolent sea, amid the flowers.

She is clad in a nightgown of white,
Lost in a vale of soft, tender sunlight,
As her feet grace the path by the ocean.

She ponders on only emotion,
As the billows rise and fall,
And my dream is not a dream at all.

John Zwerenz

(Excerpt From Sonnets Of Dusk And Dawn) RAPTURES OF WHITE

RAPTURES OF WHITE (Page 90; Softcover)

Persian carpets and tapestries of old

Grace my mansion where a stray breeze enters,

In between the curtains, gilded with gold.

It veers through the halls and chambers.

For the windows of the gallery

Are open to the pelagic hymns of the sea,

Where every pause and harmony

Bequeaths to my dreamy psyche

A redolent rose, of charming airs.

A brunette mane awaits upstairs,

To be caressed by loving hands.

Immaculate nuptials and wedding bands

Soon to be tied in raptures of white

Beckon like heaven in the diamond night.

John Zwerenz

BABY BLUE EYES (2:45) New Rock Song / Copyright By The Artist / Words & Music By John Zwerenz / Singer : John Zwerenz

LADY BAKER (4:08)

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INDIANA LADY (2:56) / New Song / Rock Music / All Words & Music By John Zwerenz / Recorded At Hamilton Studio, NYC, U.S.A.

SHEILA (3:20) (Original Song) Artist: John Zwerenz / Producer: Ron Zabrocki

What A Wonderful World / New Release

YOU'RE THE ONE (2:22) New Song / Popular / Words & Music By John Zwerenz

ALL I SEE (2:34) New Rock Song / Ballad / Zwerenz

IN YOUR SONG (2:52) (Original Song) / Rock / New Song / Artist: John Zwerenz

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HYMNS

Daisies mingle with mignonettes and wine.
(There is moonlight on the balcony.)
From the colossal, white conservatory,
Somnolent sonatas resplendently pine.

They are redolent, rapturous, and of the spring.
They ascend with the grace of an angel's wing,
And stir the slender boughs, as they glitter in the sun.
(I stand beside a brook, where the silver currents run.)

At dawn, at noon, and at night they play.
Their soporific ebonies ring radiant through the open bay,
Of the gleaming terrace, where the curtains sway.

And as dusk approaches from the holly-green mountains,
To the diamond-hued stars rises the fountains,
From the umbrageous court, to the hymns of May.

YOU'RE AN ANGEL OF MINE (Time: 2:22) (New Original Song) Zwerenz / (Standard Copyright) / Rock Music

HOLLY (2:30) / To The Memory Of Buddy Holly / New Rock Song / Words & Music By John Zwerenz / (Standard Copyright) (Excerpt From "A Requiem For Rock" By John Lars Zwerenz)

I'M A SOLDIER OF THE MIND (ROCK) (New) (3:18)

ST. JOHN'S WOOD (2:24) Rock / New Rock Song

BROWN EYES (2:10)

They'll Be Rock and Roll (2:26) Rock / New Rock Song/ Words & Music By John Zwerenz

In Lucia (2:25) New Rock Song / (Standard Copyright) All Rights Reserved / Words And Music By John Zwerenz

NEW HAMPSHIRE (2:20) New Sound In The Rock Tradition / Words & Music By John Zwerenz

A GENTLE RAIN (2:20) / New Rock Song / Recorded At Hamilton Studio / Words & Music By John Zwerenz / Time: (2:20)

Hey Lisa (2:34) (Original Song) New Rock / Rock And Roll Words & Music By John Zwerenz

SONNETS OF DUSK AND DAWN By John Lars Zwerenz

Sonnets Of Dusk And Dawn is the fourth book of poetry from Zwerenz and is comprised of a preface and eighty-four new sonnets.  Among the several odes in this volume are An Ode To Edgar Allan Poe, Coleridge, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Publisher: Xlibris
Page Count: 93
Format: Paperback
Description: Poetry: General / Adventure / Mystical
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