Sour Note
...I tickled the ivory after dusk,
being a bit of a jazzy cat.
It was an extraordinary tusk,
Although a bit too sharp at that.
The pachyderm’s response was somewhat brusk;
And now I’m feeling rathe...
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Categories:
brusk, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Those Long Walks In the Quiet Backwoods
...Those long walks in the quiet backwoods
haven't faded from the vivid memory,
and where once white oaks and elms
waved and offered shade on summer days
had a refreshing breeze which felt heavenly....
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Categories:
brusk, beauty, fantasy, longing, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn's Silent Verse
...I hear the words. In autumn's silent verse
lie anapestic wafts of falling leaves
with golden syllables both bright and terse,
the crimson pluck of summer as it grieves
its loss of verdant shimm...
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Categories:
brusk, autumn, color, metaphor, nature,
Form: Quatrain
A Tarot of Amulets
...Mediums of Winter parse
translucent runes on the tines
of sloping firs basking like mallards
in March's brusk sunshine.
Arctic oracles echo on the lake's hard sapphire
with pearl crests punc...
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Categories:
brusk, nature, spring, winter,
Form: Free verse
Ode To My Mother
...And when I crept under your warm embrace,
Oh Ma! I got to know what the wide world missed.
That shining light of midnight moon,
Swept all over your starry face.
Your smile, to my life a boon,
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Categories:
brusk, appreciation, childhood, i miss
Form: Ode
The Blue Hour
...visions of atmosphere
scattered illuminate
faintly lid, the world is blear
the latitude of nighttime sky
flaunts itself on a silhouette pier
evening gives up to nautical dusk
sightings of air o...
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Categories:
brusk, blue, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
The Rain Falls
...After the rain falls,
A new joy of beauty was bringing,
Reaching out! To wander forth again
Hearing the loud thrush singing,
Pouring out his soul with increasing pain,
No where to rest after the...
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Categories:
brusk, rain,
Form: Free verse
Twilight Constanza
...Twilight comes with the crescent moon
As street lights flicker in the dusk
The night's approach is rather brusk
Stars will begin to twinkle soon
And the sound of a distant train
Makes a noisy ...
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Categories:
brusk, places, night, sound, night,
Form: Rhyme
Love of the Ocean
...Lingering waves surge into the shore.
Ominous glory, it rages for a score.
Vivacious peaks beautify its core.
Each one different, then the one before,
Once you have seen the power it holds.
Fr...
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Categories:
brusk, nature, places, seabeauty, beauty,
Form: Acrostic