Best Osier Poems

Act I
 
Evening. A boy offer to a girl in a balcony a white rose.
 
 
Flower among wild flowers, white flower, white rose,
Come now to the balcony and stretch your hand fair.
I shall boon you with a flower worth to be your pair:
Flower among...

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Snowfall so heavy in 'eighty-two
 reproduced a Christmas card view.
A biting wind swirled in one foot drifts
 over hanging in bridges..makeshift.

The fields flooded into skating rinks
 into which each footstep sinks,
cracking under body weight so 
not the best place to skate.

Thawing February brings twitching noses...

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twitching noses 
in tussocks
      of awakened primroses

rummaging on hazel boles
hibernating mammals 
poke from the holes

leafless hedgerows 
       where buds now form 
a carpet of white corm
Badgers forage 
      ...

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W  I  N  T  E  R
B  R  E  A  K  S
N  A  T  U  R  E
A  W A  K  E  S
G  A  R ...

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fréolic chocolate-branches form upon

         meadows beyond the tessellated glass
         of my home. Whither upon meadows who's
         
  horizon meets with...

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IMAGE PHRASIS II
Seeds of summer grasses wait quietly
‘neath the snowdrift,osier shoots burst 
forth below a gossamer welt,on a 
hanging thread.Fine dry easterlies flurries
silent as a grave,sunlight flickers through 
tall lifeless trees and falters as shadowed
silhouettes recall sepia memories.A trail 
of nows which echo to a...

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