Desperate Hope- Glowing Obsidian
...A light instrument flows, ink darkness; folded within
Flowers; a painless, healing, prescription of treatment
Such secure grounding, found; in glowing obsidian
Happiness; gives sharp antithesis...
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Categories:
cascadian, earth, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Villanelle
Teanaway Valley
...An old Point Man phoned, “Do ya think you can do it?.
Driving doggies and cows from the flanks of Mt. Stewart?"
Fattened on grass for a year they had stayed.
“Move a river of horns down to Yaki...
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Categories:
cascadian, peace, river,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Saint Helens
...With apocalyptic roar and the sound
Of the fifth angel’s trumpet, this star’s fall
From heaven collaps’d the volcanic north
Face, releasing in pyroclastic flow
Roiling, rumbling, demonic spirits,...
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Categories:
cascadian, anniversary, natural disasters,
Form: Sonnet
Freedom of the Dog
...The wind sweeps over my bikini
and combs through my hair
This canoe ride.. is like a glass of red wine
The Naked grape my favourite kind.
I feel at peace...............
For the first time, in a ...
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Categories:
cascadian, happinesslife, people, life, people,
Form: Free verse