Best Sunbursts Poems

Her bare hands,
deeply wrinkled, touch the thorns 
on the rose. 

The petals-
color of the tiny pin-
prick of the blood

on her ring-
finger drop onto the cherry 
bark surface.

The oval
ripened fronds are flour-soft;
they are bursting,

for the morning 
of pines, birch and maples, that pose
as if sketched

in chalk...

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A wintry sun
blinks in and out.
A clock shaped like a sunburst
tic-toc's late,
Saturday lolls in grungy time zones.

Out in the hurrying scurry
dragging half a poem around
head down inside a thought.

Menace barks
behind a chicken-wire fence.

Mind is somewhere on a green hill
semaphoring ideas
to frontal lobes and other matters.
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