Best Capped Poems

Black capped chickadee 
sitting in my hand, 
come play with me 
across God's beautiful land. 

Copyright Cynthia Jones 
Nov.28/2004 

I wrote this about my youngest daughter. It's the first time she had a chickadee land on her hand....

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Having not done the things I wanted to do
and the things I've done not being what I wanted to do
I sit here looking at lichen on the north side of trees.

Black-capped chickadees
cheerful and truthful expression
grouped in platoons, sharing the point.

The tribes travel together
first finches, then...

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After dad's Sunday softball games, 
us kids would run the bases.
Then we'd skip over to the River Inn Tavern.
Players would gather in small sweaty clumps.  
Guzzling life 
Playing pool
Devouring cold cuts
Rehashing the scent of the game
The dirt on their uniforms,
the state of a blue...

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snow kissed desert land
                                  ancient arms raised in wonder
   ...

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tall regal young pine 
lights twinkling on colored balls... 
capped by brightest star
~*~...

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snow-topped zeniths rise
iced water softly shuffles…
sky a grumpy shade

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Written: March 3rd, 2022

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Sponsored by: Constance La France...

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the ice-capped hillsides

are mirrored through the bright lens

of tiny swallows 


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Atop the ice capped mountain
     Residing in my cup
There flowed a creamy lava
     A marshmallow cover up

The snow was flavored chocolate
     Though the vast selection varies
With choices of all colors
   ...

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 the flap of a wing
puffing up a downy coat
longing for the sun ...

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Down below the snow capped mountains stood a woman by the Muddy waters.the water flowed down through the river bed premonitions went through her head. Green acres stretched from side to side distancing beauty of a great find.a picturesque sight of beautiful landscapes shown brightly...

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Do you have five fingers
without a fist

A hope that lingers
a wanton wish

Do your letters jumble
beneath the words

Does your breath cut off
before it’s heard

Does silence threaten
what can’t begin

With empty horror
begetting sin

Whose grip wraps tightly
o’er digits limp

Your soul indentured
—creation’s gimp

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)...

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Black Capped Chickadees
      hop from branch to branch, then swoop
                     dipping in the air
      ...

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Snow capped button mushrooms
circle the old oak

Boot prints have shuffled the shade around
so that what once was darkened
is now lighter, the small heaps of melting ice
look like the Alps when the sun sharply defines
their shadowed rock face.

My skis are in the attic
along with the wicker...

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Craggy snow-capped crowns,

                             Skirting skyline’s golden hue.

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