A Missouri Way To Live
...Walking along a path through forest’s green,
a clear running stream where I can fish.
A porch swing to sit and watch nature’s scene,
that is the heart of my Missouri wish.
Strolling through a t...
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Categories:
columbines, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Day We Met
...I recollect the day we met, my dear
When the air was wintry warm and clear.
The garden was a paradise of perfume,
And many flowers were in bloom.
Daylilies and columbines flourished around the ...
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Categories:
columbines, love,
Form: Couplet
Haku 6 - Hummingbird
...hummingbird hovers
on columbines with nectar -
the art of new plants
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Categories:
columbines, bird,
Form: Haiku
Simple Scribbles and Rambling Lines
...I write upon mountains from whence I view the sea
soothed by the rhythmic motion of the tide
my muse goes into overdrive
Soon my pretty notebook
is bursting with simple scribbles and ...
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Categories:
columbines, nature, sea, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Garden Hummer Conundrum
...Poor Ruby Hummer looks confused,
searching for her favorite feeder.
It was right there when it last was used,
in September, in the cedar.
Above the Bee-balm and Lobelia,
in my pollinator garde...
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Categories:
columbines, bird, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Letters Stories Tell
...typewriter keys strike hard and fast
sharp black marks slightly moist
on crisp clean papers so snowy white
lines of symbols that have no form
black and white does colors show
golds and silv...
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Categories:
columbines, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mountain
...The spoils of war and the comfort of your home all locked up in a web of spiders silk and dusty blue Columbines. A mid-winter sky raging brilliant white electricity while I dig my fingernails into my...
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Categories:
columbines, abuse, angst, anxiety, deep,
Form: Free verse
Whirl of Blue Blossoms
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Whimsical love-in-a-mist
Himalayan blue poppy
Elegant lily of the Nile
Graceful columbines
Playful balls of hydrangea
Ravishing blue daisy
Humble globe thistle
Delicate flax blooms
Sublime ...
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Categories:
columbines, beautiful, blue, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Reawakening - a Dizain
...The waxing sun of April shines
Where once the woods of winter pined;
Now trilliums and columbines
Exult; where snow once lay, now find
Sweet-scented honeysuckle twined.
Where rime ran rife, wh...
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Categories:
columbines, april, earth, flower, growth,
Form: Dizain
The Mountains Are Calling
...From pine-scented forests, past boulders and streams,
To clear lakes encircled by murals and dreams
Where bright clouds emblazon a warm azure sky,
A trail through the mountains is one I must try.
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Categories:
columbines, america, beautiful, inspiration, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Mountain Meditation
...I am walking in silence,
listen to water and wind,
notice
the frost on the leaves in the shade,
the fivefold symmetry of the columbines,
the pica scurrying across the scree.
My feet follow
t...
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Categories:
columbines, mountains, nature, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Eden
...Eden
Early bloom the yellows of spring,
ending the gray of winter’s bane;
entwined vines of columbines cling,
enthralled by silver drops of rain.
Enrobed in colors fresh and green,
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Categories:
columbines, beauty, garden, nature, paradise,
Form: Verse
Used To
...I used to walk
By the side of the beach
And feel the wind on my face
And the waves lapping at my feet
And the sunset in all its splendour
Pinks and reds and oranges and yellows
The strokes of t...
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Categories:
columbines, adventure, goodbye, remember,
Form: Free verse
Being Right
...being right all the time can be very boring ...
if always right, perhaps you may have little to say
that's problematic for all-powerful beings, godlike creatures
the rest of us engage in mem...
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Categories:
columbines, art, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Verse
- 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:
columbines, remember,
Form: Free verse
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