Autumnal Zephyr
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The trees dressed in their carnival clothes
Gold and scarlet of the autumn days
They play about the earthy hues
Of boughs and boles
Proud flag of any sky
I take in the freshly...
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Categories:
boles, autumn, day, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To a Squirrel
...Oh, little chirpy squeaking squirrel
I see you always dressed in grey apparel
Swift as an arrow you can run
Watching you scamper the tree is fun
Is it when you are joyous and hale,
That yo...
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Categories:
boles, animal, cute, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Candlemas Crysraline X3
...Aconites gazing into the sun
'neath catkins dangling,finely spun
Awakened mammals desert their holes
rummaging midst the hazel boles
Long twilight days in winter's shade
tomorrow..brings sno...
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Categories:
boles, february, poetry,
Form: Crystalline
After Dissension God Gave Me Permission
...many prefaces
emphasis on Ephesus
said on premises
what we do intend
hand of friendship did extend
love of God will lend
had a huge hassle
trying to put on my tassel
to ground will wrest...
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Categories:
boles, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Spring
...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 whit...
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Categories:
boles, spring,
Form: Pastoral
February
...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 D E N
A S L E E P
&
an oldie reposted
Fields flooded into skating rinks
into which each footstep sinks,
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Categories:
boles, february, word play,
Form: Shape
Samuel Palmer Enriching the Actual Present
...rumanative &
ancient
in gathering skies
of thunder&beating rain
groves&glades
with enormous boles
grasping at roots
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Categories:
boles, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Phantoms of Gettysburg
...Fields that echoed with the muskets' rattle;
Blood of Yanks and Rebs spilt in dire battle;
Now serene with murmurs of restless ghosts,
Of men who died among the frenzied hosts!
Are those the si...
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Categories:
boles, america, history, war,
Form: Sonnet
Cats Tale
...Just a Cat's tail....
Photo by Alan L Boles
Think!!!!!.....I'm gonna,
Stay in today,
Hum... bit tired...
Sun's to bright,
Got a bit of a hang over,
Had a busy night...,
You know...how it ...
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Categories:
boles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Robins Love Song
...Robins love song
Picture by Alan L Boles
Come to me...my darling...my love,
My beautiful one,
Look at my colours,
Robin calls....
Whistling his mating songs,
My kisses are sweeter than win...
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Categories:
boles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Childhood Days
...Childhood day's
Photo by Alan L Boles
Something about purity,
And innocence,
That enables a special connection
Between human life...and plant life,
A young girl's love for the forest,
Outw...
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Categories:
boles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Profoundly Deaf
...Profoundly deaf
Picture by Alan L boles
Can you imagine,
Someone telling you...no,
Or someone saying...sorry....
Your...not good enough,
Can you imagine....
This little girl's heart
When...
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Categories:
boles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Grey
...Grey
Picture by Alan L Boles
Squirrel...flies...
Through the air,
Like...superwoman
In this life and death...
Situation,
Running for her life,
Speedily...jumping
From tree to tree,
Try...
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Categories:
boles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Yesterday
...Yesterday
Picture by Alan L Boles
Yesterday...yesterday,
Where have you gone,
Blown away,
Like the wind,
My heart yearns,
Deep inside my soul,
Come back to me
My darling yesterday,
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Categories:
boles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sad Heart of a Dying Piano
...(A saddened heart of a dying....Piano)
Picture by Alan L Boles
You remind me so much,
Of your grandmother...child,
You have her eyes,
She too...was beautiful,
Just like You!
Yes...I remem...
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Categories:
boles, daffodils, poems,
Form: Free verse
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