Perfumes starry night <br />wafts the air, florid scent <br />wraps round svelte neck <br />of a Lady’s knight <br /> <br />Moonless, moonlight tale <br />yet reflects its shadow lake <br />redolent smell spreads ov’r <br />bites evening mighty spell <br /> <br />Twilight shower bakes <br />early mornin’ dew atop <br />tiny white petals <br />looks like icing on cakes <br /> <br />Sweet scented floras <br />its caramel fragrance <br />sticks one’s sallow skin, <br />creates bright auroras <br /> <br />Teeny weenie fingers <br />sews mini whites together <br />soon digital strings on sight <br />hangs like bell ringers! <br /> <br />Early dawn comes <br />elate childish smiles, <br />vie to sell round churchyards <br />A few, a plenty welcomes <br /> <br />Lovely sampaguita, delightful <br />Adorable you may be <br />A lady in laces waiting <br />Gentlemen swarm undoubtful <br /> <br />Its freshness makes nostril flares <br />relieves stress for surely, <br />arrogant minds pacified <br />then tranquility bares <br /> <br />Infants, old timers, adolescents <br />round the elliptic bush, plucks <br />metal petal gathers copiously, <br />threaded together like fluorescents <br /> <br />Carved in various forms <br />bracelets, necklaces, lei <br />worn by a lovely dame <br />lookin’ out window’s dorm <br /> <br />Sampaguitas, flourish ev’r <br />immaculate white, eternal <br />A jewel in her own way, <br />as nite’s tempest, nev’r! <br /> <br />She’s pure and innocent, <br />Brilliant, incandescent<br /><br />Noel Horlanda<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sampaguita-philippine-national-flower/
