Categories:
coltsfoot, color, flower, spring,
Form: Shape
Nicky's Road Kill
...Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home.
A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the
forties.
But the head is crushed beyond recognition—maybe it’s a fox an...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, death, dog, flower, mother
Form: Free verse
Love and Dandelions
...Blow-ball and Cankerwort,
words born from a common tongue.?
Lions tooth, ?
Priests Crown, ?
Moles Salad and piss-a-bed.?
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English is most practical ?
when it is rustic and colloquial.
‘Swi...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Million Dollar Movie
...Late April and only
coltsfoot—Tussilago farfara—breaking leaf litter.
Our daffodils, peonies and crocuses
are also making signs.
April is the cruelest month, I forget why.
A sweet slow Spring
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Categories:
coltsfoot, change, city, dance, insect,
Form: Free verse
A Moment To Embrace
...Early one Spring morning, I joyfully walked the verdant hills,
among lemon tinted blooms of coltsfoot, swaying in spills.
Their beauty seemed to drift in a gloriously scented display,
so en...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, environment,
Form: Rhyme
- Simple Pleasures -
...The temperature fluctuates between mild spring days to rain or even snow. Nature wakes up, and the buds slowly sprout on the trees. Coltsfoot pop up as yellow rubber balls, charming yellow flowers. I...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, spring,
Form: Haibun
How To Spell Dandelion
...Blowball and cankerwort,
words born from a common tongue.
English is most practical
when it is rustic and colloquial.
Lions tooth, priests crown,
moles salad and pee-a-bed.
‘Swine snout’ snor...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Prose Poem Naturally
...Blossom of baby's breath,soft white gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship swaying pelts of grass w...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, nature, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
The River
...The River
The swirling stream in slow eddies flows along,
In bright sun flecked ripples the Grey Heron wades.
Where Water Coltsfoot, Alder and Birch belong
A swift kin...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, nature, river,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Countryside
...Once were badgers in leafy dale,
once were rabbits and foxes too,
once were pheasants in shining copse where cuckoopint and coltsfoot grew.
Once were songbirds in privet hedges,
once were blu...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, anger, angst, emotions, longing,
Form: Rhyme
- Don'T Fear, But Cheer -
...I value the ability to live independently
Most sacred to me
is the freedom and my health
- every breath of dawn, is like a diamond
I open the window ... just for a little while
- no children are...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, beauty, fear, freedom, life,
Form: Narrative
Coltsfoot
...coltsfoot in tatters
the waterfall chuffing
— bright Summer sun
8/8/2018...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, garden,
Form: Haiku
- Spring Gold -
...Scents
Coltsfoot
Dare to dream
Nature's glory
Wealth
10.04.2017
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
howmanysyllables.com/syllable
1-2-3-4-1...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, beauty, spring, sunshine,
Form: Lanterne
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -
...- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, remember,
Form: Free verse
A Leafless Stalk
...Don’t let the worms touch the brittle petals,
Just blow them to my empty palms
As gentle dream. I can no longer settle
Be lonely as a leafless stalk.
And coltsfoot not roses,
Just coltsfoo...
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Categories:
coltsfoot, loneliness, longing, love, nature,
Form: Verse
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