Whisper
...The balmy breeze wafted over the prairie,
Where yellow cowslips huddled in patches.
And here and there I heard a whisper echoing:
Love her, love her, love her.
But she seemed deaf and pref...
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Categories:
cowslips, lost love,
Form: Free verse
I Remember Years Ago Potd
...I remember, oh how I remember
the years that have gone by.
Our doors were never bolted
our windows never closed.
Women had part-time jobs
knocking on doors all afternoon,
their comely voic...
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Categories:
cowslips, memory,
Form: Free verse
Silent Reflections
...We strolled along deserted lanes
lined by straggly rubble walls,
adorned by yellow cowslips,
perfumed with early wild narcissus,
and music, a fine harmony,
performed by finches of all colours
W...
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Categories:
cowslips, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
Something Old Something New
...OLD
Outside the classroom
Sun cloud and tree dapple the grassy vale
Aspens tremble, willows sway in graceful measures
Blackbird, thrush and warbler trill a delicate scale
Daisies, buttercups...
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Categories:
cowslips, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Courteous Curtain
...A courteous curtain
Looked thready with fine silk
Scenting of my core
Which led linger rose in my mind
And with no fleeing ticks
But almost ding-dong devotes
Potent day and night
Shrouds,when ...
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Categories:
cowslips, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Can You Hear the Cowslips
...Listen carefully: those are bells ringing.
To whom are they calling?
From where come the peals?
Here in the wild countryside
the pale-yellow cowslips
dance a lonely jig
to the tune of the waywa...
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Categories:
cowslips, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Perpetual Motion
...buttercup yellow
kissing cowslips
midst dancing grasses
back &forth
on the go
a foraging airshow ,to and fro
busy bees
morn 'til late
thus
honeycombs...
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Categories:
cowslips, food, insect, nature,
Form: Imagism
Found In May
...eveything glows
is reflectve
nothing happens
garlands of blossom
the wonder of it all
cowslips in flower
buttercups bloom
colour
shines golden
in the...
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Categories:
cowslips, may, nature, spring,
Form: Verse
Joie De Vivre
...Upon a whim arising on this sunny springtime morn
hearing birds perform their songs at the crack of dawn
my knapsack packed already with a tasty picnic lunch
bread with cheese and wine
oh such a ...
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Categories:
cowslips, beauty, flower, nature, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Present Perfect 2
...PAST HISTORIC
Others have come
I have kept the memory
She with the bright eager face and wisdom beyond her age
He in the body of a boy but with full grown mind of a sage
He the humble giant, d...
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Categories:
cowslips, memory, school, teacher,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Present Perfect In Summer School
...PRESENT PERFECT in SUMMER SCHOOL
CONJUGATION
I have yearned
Thou hast returned
He has departed
She has kissed faint hearted
We have voiced warm greetings
They’ve had timid meetings
The yo...
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Categories:
cowslips, celebration, happiness, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Pastoral Harmony
...Back and forth,
HIgh then low
Black swifts scythe below;
Beneath the vivid hue
Wide-set celestial blue.
Across the field
Buttercups fill my view with
Dung pats,dried,and fried in the sun;
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Categories:
cowslips, nature,
Form: Pastoral
Spring Into Life
...What a wonderful time nature will bring
this exceptional season we call Spring,
sounds of birds, amazing aromas, smells
beautiful cowslips, primrose and bluebells,
fresh feel in the air,g...
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Categories:
cowslips, daffodils, flower, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
The Rhyme Game
...Glowing candles flicker an imminent grief,
Undulant meadows sink then moments brief,
A recluse in silence deep, torment lies only if
Truth recoups when heavy gravels lift,
An answer wayward a cur...
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Categories:
cowslips, analogy, desire, imagery, imagination,
Form: Monorhyme
Spring Abecadarian
...Azaleas with their vibrant jewelled colours mingle with
Begonias to bring beauty to my garden borders.
Calendula or Marigolds in glorious gold dazzle me like spring sunshine.
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Categories:
cowslips, beautiful, nature, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
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