Best Leafing Poems
Animal Life
...In the dog-days of summer of so long ago
there were bear-hugging moments I like to recall
Like leafing through pages of ram-shackle books,
that are dog-eared, and faded, wearing hound-tooth wo......
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Categories:
leafing, child, childhood, nature, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Hickory Sunrise
...The morning's first cup is sweetest, rich and hot,
as I look through my kitchen window at the hickory.
The low branches will come off first.
Once upon a time I'd climb it, perch atop the high......
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Categories:
leafing, autumn, childhood, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Ekphrasis
March
...March
Sweet, bitter March,
last year tears haven’t dried out up
till now and yet you
are already at the door,
knocking lightly!
Sadness is still flapping over my head like
a frantic goose......
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Categories:
leafing, nostalgia, march,
Form:
Prose Poetry
October Envy
...Her radiant beauty crested, wave ebbing,
summer shakes her flowing green free of cooling rains;
yet, stubbornly they linger, gathering
in misty gray garlands about her peaks.
Decay's first brow......
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Categories:
leafing, autumn, beauty, seasons, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Tomorrow
...This day has not seen the sunlight
It feels the night finds no excuses
For the darkness of this day
I cannot put my mind to bed
Please.... O God,
lift the mist that fogs my......
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Categories:
leafing, faith, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
The Rooted Lofty Tree
...She sat there under a rooted lofty tree.. Shading branches and fanning leaves kept her company... The hissing of silence and the reigning of solitude driving her cold at home. She took a step out to ......
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Categories:
leafing, care, emotions, family, how
Form:
Prose
Alone With My Friends
...Alone with My Friends
Palpable loneliness propels me to recline upon the deck,
Amid the trees.
The trees, my friends, who speak in “breeze” and
Keep me company.
Mr. Ash, you know is, too, a......
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Categories:
leafing, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
A Little Faith
...When hearts are heavy, and teardrops start
When days have found the sunlight dim
And night can find no good excuse
For the thunder, or the storms, or the weary and grim...
When I cannot put my mind ......
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Categories:
leafing, inspirational, life
Form:
Free verse
Autumn Library
...dawn blinks—
saffron spilling
over ridge-lines marigold
plaiting the first veins of leaves
air tastes of dew and oak
crisp on the tongue......
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Categories:
leafing, autumn, beauty, imagery, morning,
Form:
Imagism
Alone In Fall
...swing alone, heavy branch
golden tone, sneakers scranch
in falling…enhancement
of sprawling-enchantment
leafing deep, Autumn’s rush
two foot leap, noontime hush
8/17/2021
In Essence 2
......
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Categories:
leafing, autumn,
Form:
Verse
Seasonal Bliss
...The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy s......
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Categories:
leafing, appreciation, autumn, beauty, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Bamboo Tree
...Bamboo Tree
26 February 2012
Evergreen tree-like green herbage
Abounding woody stems travelling upwards
In a flick, moments-of-memory refuse to cede
At the sound of rustling leaves, pay off a reve......
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Categories:
leafing, green, inspirational, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Seasons
...Feather to feather on a branch, this early winter morning,
Are they planning outings for the day or of grave dangers warning?
A predator comes swooping by, a red-tailed hawk in plunder.
As of one mi......
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Categories:
leafing, seasons,
Form:
Couplet
God With Us
...In the Last days of January 2016 father Antony was wondering where he could find a person or persons who would be able to clear the badly overgrown Church garden He had inherited just two months befo......
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Categories:
leafing, god,
Form:
Narrative
One Spring Day
...Across
The vale,voices
In Easter Day worship,
Complemented a soul being
Mended.
addenda
A wood of snowdrops in the dawn,
yellow daffodils light the morn,
the scent of new mown grass,
Spr......
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Categories:
leafing, easter, faith, forgiveness, life,
Form:
Bio