The Paw-Trod Path
...Along the paw-trod path
Narrow and dainty through the gorse
Where yellow flowers
Lie dim like fallen stars in the mist
Comes a silent visitor, hesitant
It licks its lips
A taste like vi...
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Categories:
cow parsley, animal, anxiety, death, environment,
Form: Free verse
Scenes of a Careless Childhood Recited
...SCENES OF A CARELESS BOYHOOD
The sound of water,escaping dams
willows,old rotten planks,slimy
posts,brickwork,old timber props
wet ditches,sedges and silvery nets
towpaths without gates,horses...
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Categories:
cow parsley, art, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Summer Days Recited
...SUMMER DAYS
Watch a swallow swoop
and pass above an old meadow,
lush with grass. Speckled starlings
sing with delight over flying ants
in nuptial flight. Buckthorn in a dense
hedge screen. Ceanoth...
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Categories:
cow parsley, nostalgia, seasons, summer,
Form: Verse
A Happy Memory
...buttercup yellow
kissing cowslips
dandelion,poppy and daisy,
corn marigold
cow parsley and clover,
a wilow that weeps
and meadow-sweet,deep
in a forgotten pasture....
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Categories:
cow parsley, nature, nostalgia
Form: Verse
Sequence-Verge of Life
...Dead
nettle,
cow parsley,
a high rise weed-
feed,
seed-
fulfil
desires of
other's verdant
need...
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Categories:
cow parsley, nature, places
Form: Lanterne