Winter Cousin Poems

pine trees, snow covered
                two red cardinals,  singing
 ...

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I came sneaking around to see what I could see,                  I saw you long before you saw...

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Azure Core was a gorgeous winter faerie with enthusiasm galore
She loved sprinkling ice glitter on cold snowdrifts with pure adore
Her cheerfulness healed the aged, the...

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A Winter Night’s Dream

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Come on, grab your coat and
ice skates!
The moon is out and our friends are
at the lake.
The trees icy sparkle from the moonlight...

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Mama and Granny
Herded children through the kitchen
Out the screen door, to the yard
Where we wouldn’t be underfoot

Cousins all brown from summer
Sun baking soft skin and...

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Cousin Donald Comes to Town ...

Elroy was all cock-a-hoop cos
cousin Donald was a-comin'
a visiting & they were so darn
chuffed & tremblin' in anticipation
that friday night...

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They sit inside a thin glass dome below the face of time.
Four orbs upon a pedestal; all move in perfect rhyme.
Some years ago their movement...

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Pugnacious mind of mine
Seeks an end to this winter fog
Your ramblings, on and on
I close the shutters, for spring is not in sight

Pig manure emasculates...

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If I were a blood sucking parasite
I'd hide in the stilt grass and wait
For the next feast to walk by.
Usually it's a deer or opossum,
But...

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How busy, busy is the life
Fat-arsed but Oh so humble Bumble Bee
He has no worries. What a simple life
Unhappy. How can he be?

He trundles round...

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January's cousin Fall left in a fit
For January brought her friend, Wind howling long
Denuded the trees of all their gowns knit
Now her great Aunt Spring...

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Here I am facing my death at age sixteen.
Each moment of my life has been a foreboding scene.
I never had desire to be this nation’s...

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A friend of Summer,
The neighbor of harsh Winter;
The cousin of Fall....

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She wrote a letter 
Which I happily read
In Spring
Summer baked on
Autumn arrived with a chill in the air
Winter followed with snow 
Then the call came
Aunt...

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Quietly filling
 deep cups of the red blossoms.
 The morning sunrise.

 The rock bowl is full.
 Filled by the rain for the birds
 and for...

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