Bastogne Winter
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It is Christmas in a pine grove
Holding vigil in a foxhole
Not an atheist to be found
As artillery shakes the ground
The pines adorned with crystal flecks
And pinecones as ornaments
A cardina...
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Categories:
coppice, atheist, christmas, god, green,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Coppice Carpet
...rainbowed ghosts
rustling underfoot
each tells a story...
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Categories:
coppice, autumn, color,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
coppice, winter,
Form: Haiku
Song of Blackbird
...all ears early morn'
notes clear from yonder coppice ~
blackbird plays it's flute
A Hiku Premier Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 12/26/202...
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Categories:
coppice, bird, nature, song, sound,
Form: Haiku
Sokushinbutsu
...the sun is on its knees,
disease leaks out their eyes; alive,
it fans the drain’s release;
a holy light complies; it dries and-
burned and held and spined.
their molting hair entwined; divine a...
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Categories:
coppice, analogy, autumn, birth, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Oranges
...Oranges
Frost in Florida once, I planted an orange tree
among thousands of other orange trees in an orchard
when in Florida.
The coppice belongs to a friend of mine who invited
me to plant th...
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Categories:
coppice, allusion, august, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
The Flying Scotsman
...Big Ben strikes ten, depart Kings Cross.
Squeal of tight wheel, where lines criss-cross.
Clickety-clack. Clickety clack.
Now heading north-bound on fast track.
Leave city sprawl in grey and gri...
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Categories:
coppice, england, travel,
Form: Couplet
Naked Tree
...Beneath a desolate sky
Intricate simplicity,
Richness of colours in fall
A coppice carpet.
© Harry J Horsman 2020...
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Categories:
coppice, autumn,
Form: Dodoitsu
Amid Falling Leaves
...Amid falling leaves,
Beneath the rasping trees,
Nature sounds
A little groggy with sleep.
Proud and defiant wind
Puffs its lips
Out with i...
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Categories:
coppice, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Breezing Trees Heard the Whispers of Leaves
...Amidst trees cover; shelters shadow, lace
Ferns, and flora. A citadel's embrace
Once coppice now cracks, and cushion soft moss.
Liana crawls upon the stone, exhausts
Castle walls f...
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Categories:
coppice, bird, imagery, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Romantic Moon
...beneath dusk twilight
briskness of the night
off a bumpy quiet foot
path, deeper into
root of virgin forest
towards narrow a patch.
breathless, beneath
thick mixed coppice
night...
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Categories:
coppice, imagery, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lordism
...tree's outstretch hand, pines
life in peace beneath coppice
smoke rise from the vale
11/18/2019...
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Categories:
coppice, war,
Form: Senryu
The Morning
...The morning broke pragmatically
As the warmth kissed the dew goodbye.
And the thunder clouds who haunted nigh
Had fled and left an open sky.
Where an aged thrasher voiced a song of love
That rai...
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Categories:
coppice, freedom, happiness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Nature
...Gray hills of impenetrable coppice draw down clouds in misty rain.
Limbs and leaves weigh down with invited teardrops that keeps their soul alive.
Forest floor whose dress adorn with ve...
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Categories:
coppice, nature,
Form: Free verse
Save the Trees
...Silent giants oxygen machines
The lungs of mother nature
Wilderness wonderlands
Coppice, copse, or just a stand
Thicket, timberland
Parks for playing hide and seek
Natures vast expanse
A lan...
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Categories:
coppice, nature,
Form: Free verse
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