Farewell April Poems

Alas poor April you have shared your showers
Providing for May her gentle bowers
Awakened the dreaded Dandelion
Set their generation’s flyin’

Yet still you chill the evening’s mist
Warmth...

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Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023

IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic,...

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I enjoyed traveling greatly, and I had been countless places,
Like lovely fireflies of twilight, on their mellow moonlit races.

On my time away from work, I...

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A Doll I love

Mightier was my pen
      To embrace my youth so young;
The days I nurtured for a while
 ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Who knew 
us parting the other day
was the last time in a while.
Closed my eyes and woke up to
Climbing numbers on phone screens;
Who knew 
if...

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April sent forth a shower of riverside catkins,
In the rainy Southern town I
set sail among blooming seas of lotus deities.
Fell through the bamboo ceiling,
Calling out...

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Dear April,
Once again, your time is almost at its end. 
I’ve got to say this time round’ the Sun with you
hasn’t been the best-
Which, I...

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I thought we’d grow old together,
Didn’t think you'd pass away,
Thought we'd live on forever
but life turns that way
Now I cry when the sky lets go,
that...

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I work hard I don’t depend on luck
I am like a lighting I leave a mark
Wherever my spark struck
Always finding ways when I’m stuck
I don’t...

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Petersen House, Washington, D.C.  

(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, 
and the life and death of 
the sixteenth...

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Adieu April


Adios you soggy segue
nature’s mud pie maker
roof top drummer
dog soaker
puddle teaser.

Au Revoir
cool breathed friend
easing the ice from its depths
cajoling the worms
play peek-a-boo
with the Robins.

Bon...

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I buried you with love in the coffin of my heart,
When I realised that it was just a graveyard 
Where people were born to take...

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The ground
   now saturated from several days
   of cold unyielding rain
begins to dry
   beneath the warming rays
  ...

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And then came April and I saw
Darkened clouds and sunny days, 
Fruit rich trees and greening fields
Cattle trodding dusty ways; 

And then upon an April...

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