Cloud Cover
Out on the distant horizon of gray,
through the clouds, a soft golden glow.
The sun, appeared as a spotlight's ray,
touching the dark ocean below.
The waves rose with no crest at all,
breaking with a hint of swirling white.
Gaining no height, there was no fall,
water rippling was ever so slight.
Sadly the spotlight began to fade,
into the
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Categories:
cloud cover, dark, light, sea, sky,
Form: Quatrain
Categories:
cloud cover, childhood, summer, sun,
Form: Verse
Even Under the Cloud Cover
Wrenching pain, hot pavement, warm tears flowing
---- Steaming ----
Not from being unloved or desires not being met
Just very simple little wooden doors slammed shut
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Categories:
cloud cover, angst, deep, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Cloud Cover
The early evening sky billowed
with smoke colored clouds,
smoldering above the burnt sugar brown
remnants of the October forest.
Ashen rain fell upon the dirty sheets of tar.
Spruce and pine protrude warily into
the foreboding firmament
piercing the night.
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Categories:
cloud cover, angst, introspection, nature
Form: Free verse
Cloud-Cover
Cloud-Cover… On A Sunny Day
Got Me On This Hill… Looking-Up and Dreaming
Cloud-Cover… I Just Want To Lay
And Watch The Sunrays Gently Beaming…
… thru The Cloud-Cover… Cloud Cover
Cloud-Cover… Like A Gentle Lover
A Sweetheart, That’s Somewhere Far Away
Who, Sends A Message… To This Hillside Clover…
… and Me… Wishing Both, Could Stay…
… just Like Cloud-Cover… Cloud Cover
Oh, Let
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Categories:
cloud cover, allegory, daughter, death, dedication,
Form: Light Verse
Cloud Cover
Breathing starry clouds
Sleepy mountains sing to me
old as time and love.
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Categories:
cloud cover, happiness, nature,
Form: Haiku