Lure of Glistening Dew
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Written: January 26, 2025
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In the pale autumn sun,
a radiant shimmer thrives,
A solitary strand,
a seascape draped in mist...
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Categories:
celandine, analogy, autumn, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Lost Time Wealth
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Written: January 26, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer "Time and tide wait for no man,"
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Time, a p...
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Categories:
celandine, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Riddles on Brambled Path
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Written: January 24, 2025 For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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In the galumph of morning breath
a chandelier of dew,
Barely i...
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Categories:
celandine, analogy, cute love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Buttercup
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was never a weed
common lesser celandine
meadow buttercup
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Categories:
celandine, flower,
Form: Haiku
Spring Sonata
...How many times have I written of her glows!
Yet, the yearning to write more and more grows.
Forgotten feelings soon get a vent.
When I see the sprouts, in shyness, they are bent.
Ra.. ra.. ra.. r...
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Categories:
celandine, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Free verse
Enchanted Wood
...Enchanted Wood
When I went walking on that sultry day
Where the ancient sessile oak trees stood
And the rippling river ran by the way,
Where shifting sun-cast patterned sh...
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Categories:
celandine, river,
Form: Villanelle
Yellow Is the Sun In the Skyline After Midnight- -
...YELLOW IS THE SUN IN THE SKYLINE after Midnight- -
Once upon a midnight flat;
It was matte, imagined that!
'It's that even,' I muttered;
Yellow as sun and butter;
…..a rainbow of m...
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Categories:
celandine, analogy, appreciation, color, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Birdman
...Birdman
Bold Dewi Jones would leave his home
first thing every morning,
and trot him down to Towy Wood
just as day was dawning,
and there he filled his Tesco bag,
fiv...
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Categories:
celandine, sad,
Form: Light Verse
Come Rise
...Written for the Avebury Gorsedd, and the Equinox, Spring 2017
Can you feel her in the blood
The turning tides, the shifting of the skies
Or hear her on the wind, or in the cries
Of gulls that w...
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Categories:
celandine, earth, life, light, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Distant Dreams
...In distant dreams my love would 'oft appear,
In awe she wanders Springtime's vibrant hills,
As wild bird songs exalt with merry cheer,
'Mid lesser celandine and daffodils.
In this majestic slum...
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Categories:
celandine, absence, dream, fantasy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Abecedarian Blooms
...Apple blossoms derived from the Wild crab
Birds of paradise resemble a brightly colored bird in flight
Cosmos flowers are very popular among gardeners for its beauty
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Categories:
celandine, april, flower, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Spring Flowers
...Azalea of new
Bring the cornflower New
Evening Sun absorbed by the Glory of the snow
Calling upon the peach blossom slow
Ever the Lilacs are mixed fair
Dote on the Gerberas over there
Abridge a...
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Categories:
celandine, love,
Form: Abecedarian
Red Maple Tree
...I lie back in the weather-proofed green chair
To gaze up at the flowering maple tree.
Now, touched by sun,lungs full of scented air
I embrace with joy the beauty I now see.
Old celandine show b...
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Categories:
celandine, beautiful, hope, tree,
Form: Sonnet
A Dashing Blade
...In a house high on a hill an old man grows weak, many years have gone, he lays in his old bed,
Back in the day, a dashing young officer with a brilliant red uniform he had many girlfriends,
Flowers s...
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Categories:
celandine, nostalgia, beautiful, old, sweet,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Snowdrop In March
...As March sets in people are eager to work in their rural gardens and fields,
The earth turns up fresh and mellow and there is beauty in its very blackness,
Flowers are fast springing in the boarders,...
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Categories:
celandine, nature, daffodils,
Form: Prose Poetry
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