Best Window Frame Poems

...(Collaboration: Paul Callus & Carolyn Devonshire ~ Dec 2020)

I sit outside as evening settles in, 
a teasing breeze plays gently with my hair 
the mountains bathe in shades of twilight blue 
a ......

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...Carpentry
It’s the first nail 
That hurts,  the sharpness
That pierces right through the  framed  constructs
Of our wooden fears
 With
 unrelenting precision 
As if we could unhurry our blood ......

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...(In 1807, Beethoven wrote a piano/violin
piece with this title.  Count Leo Tolstoy
followed in 1890, with a short novel of the
same name, in which he argued that
matrimony can never work.)

Wha......

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...Winter let's us hold our breath,
and pause just inside the door,
we spend more time at window frame
watching the snowflakes fall.

The slumber of trees and cars
softens the noise on our ears,
......

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...Dare you look deep into this darkness
Persecution of Jews - Holocaust
In Hebrew, this has the genocide
been called Shoah,
which means disaster or destruction


The journey has just begun,

a......

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...A Renga for Poetry Soup:


Meander

Time and the river
Endless silver morning
Autumn leaves float by

Shimmering streaming mountains
Pines swaying in constant winds

Morning mirror
Anoth......

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...The Magic Of The Oak (Part 1 of 4)
A Green and White Production

The tree near my wall
has a door, very small
When I'm flat on my tummy I see
A handgrip in brown
A mail......

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...Terra cotta, craggy rocks
Scattered boulders, building blocks
In shades of sienna, ochre, buff
To form this high and hilly bluff
With sunlit ledges thin and wide
Place for hyraxes to sun and hid......

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...This world it cruel to use its name
Its ruler has a heart of stone,
Yet all its prisons that I’ve seen
There’s one that’s worse, that stands alone.

Its cells of grief are cold I know
Its bars ......

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...In
the early
morning sun-
a painted lady
lazes 'ere her day has begun......

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...It is buried in a yesterday,
a bygone, a far gone, yet still
as near as my most recent breath
taken.

I must have reached for the key.
I must have thought a strange thought,
that thought spark......

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...Freezing ...
in my bones
Purple fingers and toes
Twenty-eight finger bones X two
Twenty-eight toe bones X two
A large base with pain
Stiffness, can not be bent
Six hundred muscle cells
will n......

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...I caress the blooms of the lilac bush and breathe their sweet fragrant breath. Here in my garden where spring has risen from the melting heart of winter’s death. And when a gentle breeze  kisses my f......

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...She loves him
                                         an enemy out of hell
                                 Always meets him with a smile
                                         But her soul is ......

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...~~Planet Earth And The Oozlum Bird

There was a question I was asked - just the other day 
Is the earth flat? - Well what do you think I'd say?
I looked out of the window, and pondered......

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