Blessings and Peace
...As I lay on the forest floor,
peacefully gazing at the starry sky,
I wonder about the blessings,
~that are numerous,
than the stars passing by.
The sodden ...
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Categories:
brumal, blessing, peace,
Form: Free verse
Winter Scene
...
Soft snowflakes falling, winter comes calling,
Wind shakes the pine trees, snowman's time to freeze,
Birdsong's enthralling, cardinal's d...
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Categories:
brumal, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Magic
...I could use a little magic tonight
some sorcerer to sympathize
and with his kind arcane words
conjure a spark so I may finally
find my way to some lovely land
lucent with Panglossian light
afte...
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Categories:
brumal, dark, depression, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Snowballs in Summer
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Snowballs in Summer, ballsy blooming.
Lovely the limelight hydrangea cheer.
Buds’ll be diminished, as freeze be looming.
Leading edge Winter wear will disappear.
But for now, the gorgeous b...
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Categories:
brumal, flower,
Form: Rhyme
The Obsidian Plague of Midnights
...In Spring there’s friendship that’s lasted through the Winter,
all those cold nights of salted drops and quilts of snow.
The obsidian plague of midnights, melancholic drapes,
but all the while the...
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Categories:
brumal, friend, grief,
Form: Haibun
Sullen Scenery
...
Written: April 05, 2024
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Perched delicately on the shiny cobalt.
The brumal sky is where it lies.
A sight that truly captur...
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Categories:
brumal, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Lilt of Lilac Melodies
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Wan is the hiemal world outdoors,
The biting breeze blows bitter,
like a blizzard building in momentum,
Cold creeps in through the closed windows,
But his harmonic heart is happy an...
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Categories:
brumal, inspirational, music, purple, winter,
Form: Verse
Exclusion
...I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.
Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the mala...
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Categories:
brumal, absence,
Form: Ballad
Spring
...Oh, if I could quickly bare witness to God's perfect hand in life renew.
Oh, if I now could bare witness to his wondrous seasonal debut.
Oh if spring would come and release my body from the frigi...
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Categories:
brumal, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Hogwarts
...
dark wonder through a mist
the evening, brumal, kissed
with gloaming’s glowing fires
the breaths of hearts’ desires
a spot where magic schemes
to shape the meat of ...
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Categories:
brumal, books, fantasy, film, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Murky Thick Haze
...bluesy blurbs
of
brumal
blackness
its
crawling
clasps
of
silvery
gnawing
below
shriveled
shades
of
oxidized
& ...
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Categories:
brumal, allusion, analogy, blue,
Form: Other
cover to cover -
...
oh, heaven …
the enigma of her face ...
its melting mysteries and moody veneers -
when shadowy and despondent
like a brumal, aching, mist-muddled beach
wild tresses framing it
like a surf-s...
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Categories:
brumal, appreciation, beauty, smile,
Form: Free verse
Love Lost
...On silent lonely nights
When the moon is shining bright,
your thoughts fly stealthily by.
Must accept the truth, though with a sigh,
we're poles apart, better savor the times
we had, both good ...
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Categories:
brumal, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Anywhere But There
...He would lay me flat on the forest floor
among the leaves and the moss
In a pasture or a farmer's field
In the hatchback of his car
parked behind an abandoned cabin
along the river road
Outside...
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Categories:
brumal, first love, heartbreak, irony,
Form: Free verse
Swift, the Rills
...swift, swift, the rills do run
swift, from high the mountain
swifter, tho', the running years
flowing through life's fountain
creep, creep, the brumal mists
...
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Categories:
brumal, analogy, appreciation, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
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