Best Marshes Poems

Springtime rain brings fresh array 
of flowers east to west.
The Rockies’ red and purple tufts
of mountain pride are best. 
And mats of foliage named moss...

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She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey


Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop

Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works...

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As I paddled the river Nile
I met a monstrous crocodile. 
She smiled at me enticingly.   
I smiled deferentially.  
Through large white teeth...

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I walk an already trodden path...
Uncertain, of future lives that lie ahead

But, in faith I close these earthly Ojibwa eyes
In trill, thus, I hear the...

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You flit around the marshes and in places warm and wet.
as a beetle you’re about as bright as any bug can get!

You have a tiny...

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From our youth, we have been taught that beauty is only skin deep;
and  “It’s in the eyes of the beholder”,  is what we...

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Waterfowler’s Delight

Clouded marshes masking what may come.
Suzy's boisterous invitation over yonder grass 
Dark shadowed spreads set to entice some.
As the glow of the East begins...

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I feel the fleeting whispers of the wind
it fills my fragile wings like yellow sails
to float about these mellow marshes 
in dawn’s light
a scenic dream,...

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On Willard Creek, a marsh does lay, 
upon a soft soliloquy of a dormant day...

The moss medusa within her array,
spreads a garden green for our...

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“butter flies and marshes mellow”, that’s what he said to me.
did i look shocked — you bet, but i did him one better.

“mine craft and...

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I was walking through the marshes,               
When a turtle joined me....

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Kiawah's sun dips,
Marshes blush in soft pastels,
Spring whispers low.
Egrets dance in twilight's grace,
Day ends in a gentle sigh....

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Zinnia Grandiflora a golden beauty 
Yellow Prairie Coneflower conical cutie

Xerophilous plants designed to survive
Waterlily attached to bottom soil to stay alive

Venus Fly Trap grows wild...

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In a strange 
environment under gross 
darkness and whispering 
night,I found myself with 
a companion.
 We walked an endless 
journey across the 
woods..eerie sounds we...

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A horizon of rain claws boiling across the sea
Against an outline of island mountains draped in fog.
Wisps of clouds lick lazy through scattered trees.
Cattle show...

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