A Dorchester Christmas
Triple deckers decked in lights
Mostly colors, some just white
Christmas trees all dressed in tinsel
Glow at night though curtain windows
Kids with shovels dot the streets
Digging out from Christmas Eve
Some with smiles, some with frowns
All can’t wait to run back home
In our clan was seven kids
We shared gifts like Irish twins
Sisters got their stereo
Brothers played their pool table
On Christmas Day in Dorchester
Some gifts came from Globe Santa
Three sisters and four brothers
We had less and more than others
Bill MacEachern December 13, 2023
Environs are rainbow-colored, I had always felt,
Until an alternative perception is soon revealed;
Have I ever thought that midst all these a dappled scene dwelt,
Flamboyant and monochromic celluloid is concealed...?
Designs painted by the sun while peeping through bushy trees,
Harass of horses galloping in a cavalry realm;
Black-yellow-brown strips on the nectar-hunting busy bees,
Majestically strolling tiger in self-image helm...!
Peacocks, pigeons, sparrows, geese, crows, doves, and flower-peckers,
Daisies, lilies, marigolds, Amaryllis, and Hyssops;
Dunes and nature-made domes of deserts in multi-deckers,
Strips plowing through oceans, mountains, and tall baroque hilltops...
Features of Nature, each in its way, are divine designs,
Each dappled line is benign and each in decorum shines...!!!
08 February 2023
It's one of the plus's of living in Scotland
if you are over the 60 plus age band
travel is free from John O'Groats to Dumfries
giving one the opportunity having a free hand
In a land like Scotland full of great scenery
rugged mountainside and lochs so deep
surrounded by oceans east and west
the Atlantic and the North Sea are a mighty leap
So, my favourite trips are to Inverness and Perth
also love Dunfermline, Andrew Carnegie's town
Edinburgh the capital with its wonderful castle
many lovely places in the borders to be found
Being brought up in the county of Ayrshire
I love to go back and walk Irvine's beach
also back to Kilmarnock bring the memories back
there my home town kept me on the right track
So the buses with its many numbers
taking us over 60s far and near
deckers single and double all for free
blessed trips always forever in top gear
Night has come
my dreams are calling
and I am falling
sleeping
again, I'm dreaming....
Through the day
he haunts me
but at night....he hunts me.
I am his prey
his loving feast
my tender beast
I'll wrap you in my silken heat
in molten streams
and passions screams.
Dream lover I am yours.
Take me, take me
try to break me
rock me, roll me
but don't control me
let me fly, soaring high
higher
higher....
entangled in your raging fire
fill me with your sweet desire.
Hold me, catch me
I am falling....
baby please
please
don't stop taking
until the days first rays are breaking
before the agony
of waking....
Inspired by Tracy Deckers RSVPoetry contesy
Inspired by Christopher Higgins "The Hunger of the Night"
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