The Echo Returns Not
...The bare granite hill, worn down each day,
I climb halfway and call your name.
A sound rings loud, echoing near,
Yet only silence fills my ear.
The hot wind halts, the sky stands bare,
Yet ...
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Categories:
chippers, love,
Form: Free verse
Summer Hostage
...Our small loop of a street
usually quiet
Today receives a loud grooming
with chain saws
and wood chippers
and diesel trucks slicing
and ruining silence
into anti-solitude.
This is my last d...
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Categories:
chippers, age, childhood, parents, school,
Form: Free verse
Freemasonry Wiz
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There once was upon a time
Stories written out of rhyme
Swirling yellow rows of bricks
Munchkins Witches playing tricks
House that fell in lady slippers
Hit the bricks cracks and chi...
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Categories:
chippers, flower, fun, humor, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Faerie Secrets For the Young
...They are in the wind
The twinkling of the leaves
The tittering of the locusts
The chippers of the crickets.
The silence of the mushrooms, and the beauty of the moss.
They make themselve...
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Categories:
chippers, children, fairy, faith,
Form: Free verse
Birding By Ear
...The poem requires a mind
that finds meaning, even divination,
in language. Non-fiction,
up to academic standards, demands
evidence. Nothing less will do.
Most of us read fiction and this
need...
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Categories:
chippers, bird, dog, history, language,
Form: Verse