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Specific Gravity

in sunlit tether
cloudy blue skin water cooled 
dizzy ember spins

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Schlaunter

Spring paints so many shades and hues of green
I swear she's Erin born
dancing mad till lazy Summer's sun
she's gone before she's e'er begun
the aftertaste of her laughing taunting teasing fling
makes winter's long cold torture easy on my soul of souls
pipes and strings and songs to sing
she greenly springs on eire

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Different Drummer

a try at beating time today
A poem sung a rondelay
thoughts transferred to someone's mind
with words repeated to remind
and stick so well they will repeat
in time to pulsic heartfull beat
a thousand years from now
should children bring to light
and sing 
my words of joy and hope and Spring
a nursery rhyme
a try at beating time today

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Raindance

windswept rain slaps the bottoms of leaves
shivering they shed it
grassroots shake and slake their thirst
then wave their stems together
tight closed buds stand on their stems 
reaching upward fretly
shaken yes but through it all
they hold together wetly
branches wave in shades of green 
so many hues and tints are plain
Spring is here and she is seen
dancing in the rain
wind sings and swings 
green tambourines in rythym

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The Whole Damn Ride

sitting back and riding on the special
watching people getting off and laugh
rythm of the seasons blurring memories
harder now to separate the chaff

Different times are adding to the menu
values changing views of town and fields
could have should have maybe changed the venue
changed my seat a time or two or more
everybody looks so damned familiar
try some days to really find a reason
why we ride and where the rails are for

Copyright © Donald Meikle | Year Posted 2005




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