Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
rivers.
Gasconade waters buttered
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Categories:
bluffs, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,
Form: Narrative
Spirit of Nature
Spirit of Nature
I walk along the rocky bluff
with the warm rising of the sun.
The mist builds and falls
above the vast expanse of the ocean,
surrounding the little island,
blanketing the shoreline with soft white mounds.
And in the next moment it disappears....
Only to creep up in front of me!
Silently climbing up the damp rocky
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Categories:
bluffs, environment, imagery, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Limestone Bluffs
The stones could be prehistoric fertility figures,
they persist, they redefine the seen.
Water-pliant, submissive,
they are turned on the wind’s millwheels.
Some remind me of farm girls
broad buttocks, love handles,
rolling hips. Not like the bony walkers
that climb up here.
I sit leaning against an ample mound -
feel the womanish stone
shaping its image around me.
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Categories:
bluffs, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Sitting On the Bluffs
Sitting on the bluffs
Above the ocean waves,
My hair blowing around my face,
With my four legged friend
Pressed close for warmth.
We watch the sun set,
Glowing red upon the horizon,
My world turned upside down.
Grasping a moment of peace
To briefly forget,
As I sip my wine.
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Categories:
bluffs, lost love, ocean, peace,
Form: Free verse
Shrouded Bluffs
Herein, laying dormant,
veils of reposed
secrecy 'neath
foamy seascapes'
frenetic passages,
languishing below
sunken treasures'
false facades of
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Categories:
bluffs, conflict, dark, death, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Wisconsin Bluffs Without Dad
my bluffs are golden
winter creeps near
memories surround me
cause me to tear
each winding road
I look up ahead
wonder and glory
"Son, have no fear!"
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Categories:
bluffs, father
Form: Couplet