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Twas The Night Before Christmas Eve

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’Twas the night before Christmas Eve and it started to snow
And a raw bone chilling north wind was starting to blow
Mrs Claus and Santa were relaxing with a glass of mulled wine
Santa said, ...

Categories: chinooks, america, children, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Spring's Tease

...There's an earthiness to each scented breeze,
and a warm caress in the Sun's embrace:
revealing the telltale signs of Spring's tease.

The ice melts as rivers slowly unfreeze,
while the ...

Categories: chinooks, beautiful, daffodils, how i
Form: Villanelle

Autumn Wildness

...autumn wildness

fall moon corona
 rainbows glow through ice crystals ~
  silver shadows dance

empty branches sway
 hummingbirds search for blossoms ~
  twirling gusts ballet

icy crystal ...

Categories: chinooks, autumn, storm,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dragons

...Anemoi, the wind that de-horns goats.
Moorish Melteme, the ill-tempered one.  
Simoom, the lung poisoner.
Rashabbar the black swirling.

The Squamish, the Elephanta, the Williwaw,
thieves that ...

Categories: chinooks, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Wind Song

...Wind Song

Winter winds whoosh over the wilderness
In wild waltzes that warn of wanton storms.

On zephyr’s wings spring floats through soft breezes
Soft touch on tender petals
Feels like silk...

Categories: chinooks, seasons, wind,
Form: Verse

Winter's Face

...Winter’s Face

Winter’s chill freezes
 Clear ice castle glazed in frost ~
  North wind fury howls 

Hoar frost coats chinooks
 Artic tempest’s brumaled sighs ~
  Stars wear ermine rime

Sil...

Categories: chinooks, seasons, snow, winter,
Form: Haiku

Lesser Dragons

...They call them dragons,
winds such as Rashabbar the black
who darkly binds the unwary, or dust spewing Calima,
she who herds madness from outside-inward.
Then there is Bayamo, the tree killer,
T...

Categories: chinooks, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Theater of Utter Charm Part 5

...she left me defenseless again
for reasons that cannot be spoken
but that can be further diagrammed
worthy of forensic dissection
deep into the cauliflower folds
branching like rivers of lightnin...

Categories: chinooks, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Wild Is the Wind

...Wild is the winding wind
    blowing    breezy       gentle
     blatantly  bold           unafraid
      blustery   brisk          squalled
    weaved     whipping        zephyrs
     wreathing...

Categories: chinooks, weather, wind,
Form: Blank verse

Soul Stance River - 30

...The Columbia is a smooth beast that has introduced us to a semi tropic clime
that produces a bewildering humidity even for November
and a panoply of tree types that canopy the mossy turfs
from a s...

Categories: chinooks, adventure,
Form: Epic

Springtime On the Prairies

...Nature imbues a prairie Spring
with color's majestic splendor.
And Spring's pathway gets dappled with
purple pigments and puce pastels.

Tepid Chinooks melt mountain snows
that feed mea...

Categories: chinooks, beauty, color, flower, imagery,
Form: Blank verse

Spaceman Vs Sea Monster

...At the bottom, in her clutches, you’ve found your new home
Her ghostly embrace makes you feel more alone
Spaceman, at peace in the depth of your night
On glamour and glory, you’ve gotten too high
...

Categories: chinooks, fishing, love, romantic, sad
Form: Free verse