Best Swivels Poems

Along with cadent rhythms of the day,
night crawlers hum like bees around a hive.
Black shadows stretching longer, curve and blend,
to splinter into shards below the...

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She is the fish-maiden of the night,
a  temptress that croons to the sky
wading on gills of  fondled thoughts, 
the bearer of one fine...

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This All Could Be
AtTractions of the urban surfer,
ExHibits at the shored enclaves,
AbIde the faithful their sole journey,
BaSking rays of summer's retreat,

CoAstal clutter of crowds roll...

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Whiter than white 
frozen water crystals surround the air 
snow packed mountains 
building up quickly, for my eyes to see  

A snowflake begins to...

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His own voice
talks over his head,
as if he were not there.

The load car radio
plays distant music.
Without thinking,
he changes channels,
hears only
the drumming road.

His eyes are low...

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A Perfect Day to Learn 

We took our late lunch in a wooden cabin at the foot of the mountain where exotic foods in sumptuous...

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out the window a choking night-wind blows through the city.   
rancid and steamy.   
it wraps itself up my building and into...

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Silent River Run

Research fun gear, on-line or stocked.
Preparation: mixing, matching, dots.

Please, try not to harm the catches we snare;
Eat less of animal flesh;
And, plant lives...

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Watch
the
red kite
spiralling
so effortlessly.
Rising, lifted high by thermals
above the contours of this parched and dusty landscape.

Forked
tail
swivels,
directing
his graceful circles
in seemingly timeless motion.
His lifelong mate follows at measured...

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I heard the whispers of the Mantis,
as I prayed, "My lord, please grant us
a moment’s peace from cricket calls
which echo always through these halls."

Said the...

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Grab your rhodes, your lines, your reels.
Grab your hooks, your swivels, your sinkers.
Grab your power bait, your worms, your stinkers.
Grab your tackle box, your cooler,...

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I gaze at a bowl

Where goldfish swivels through moss

Its fine gills aglow---

With such aquatic prowess
As it wiggles restlessly



A New Tanka Contest
Mar 31, 2015...

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Lion Dancing To A New Year

It is that time of the year, you'll know it by the din reaching your ears...
Thunderous gong beats, clashing cymbals...

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As riverbank swivels
on deepened water floor
with ripples of fine air
its movement quivering… 
like tidal sways, the route
a junction, long mile.

Finding restfulness
that cuddles heaved turns
to soak...

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A small pile of bone dry leaves lay
nestled, protected between two roots
It was a sorchingly hot sunny day
all the trees desperately needed rain

The land that...

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