Thunder
...Weather is frightful where did summer go?
River of rain the gutters are immersed
Road underwater, brooklet does flow
Think we suffer from dire wet-weather curse.
Heavy drops of rain pou...
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Categories:
brooklet, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Free To Roam
...A robin red am I and free to roam
because I relish flirting with the breeze.
So gleefully I glide among the trees
until I’ve had my fill and head back home.
A bumble bee am I and free to roam
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Categories:
brooklet, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Meandering
...One spring day meandering in a meadow,
I saw a butterfly whose beauty matched that
of May's azure sky.
With blue silken wings like that of a fairy,
she flitted here and there -
aimlessly as butt...
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Categories:
brooklet, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Back 40 of My House
...When my identical twin sister and I were about nine, there was a little brooklet
in our backyard. It started out kind of like a tiny stream of water in a marshy bit of grass way back down by the al...
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Categories:
brooklet, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Narrative
A Weeping Willow Mourns
...I stand in constant grace
donned in my virescent cape
where yon brooklet I face
which flows through verdant landscape.
Young sweethearts seek my shade.
So happy ere they leave,
sw...
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Categories:
brooklet, nature, sad,
Form: Rhyme
River Line
...Shores off the bank bathe in beauty,
sands sweep through my toes with delight-
Continuous streams of current
free me from the pain life offers.
Th...
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Categories:
brooklet, life, river,
Form: Verse
The Feather of Love
...The Feather of Love:
I aired a stray feather to see it flying;
I gazed it flowing in the wind;
I loved its whitish tone;
I loved the natural print upon.
I don’t know how it managed to come back,...
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Categories:
brooklet, beautiful, beauty, woman,
Form: Blank verse
Peace Within the Valley
...There was peace within the valley,
And within the little church--
The white one with the steeple
Standing by the row of Birch.
And the people, few in number
Lord, they sure knew how to sing--
There ...
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Categories:
brooklet, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Close To Nature
...Close to nature
Away from the screens.
In a farm,
He was wandering
Around greenery and water.
Take ideas and concerns and suspicions
Away from this scene
Then
The beauty of nature
Dwe...
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Categories:
brooklet, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Two Edges of the River
...Two edges of the river
To give the life to Brooklet
Never shore shrinks to meet
Have learnt to imbibe pleasure
Staying being other end
In summer drying with parching sun
Abode of grass bush...
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Categories:
brooklet, ocean, river, summer, truth,
Form: Blank verse
Clear Trickling Brooklet
...clear trickling brooklet
soft sounds wafting on the breeze –
gallinule glides
Ó November 26, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen...
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Categories:
brooklet, nature,
Form: Haiku
Hillside Memories
...Upon the velvet hillside
and in the breeze that swirled,
I gazed down on the valley
and lavender unfurled.
I felt you deep inside me,
you stirred me with sweet song
along my spine a trickle l...
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Categories:
brooklet, lost love
Form: Rhyme