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Denizens Of Her Domain

Mother Nature, divine and yet so whimsical
Her flowing streams fall warm, healing and abiding   
A darkened blue-green sea, maroon and sapphire shores,  
cradle us asleep, with your gentle waves 
harboring the dour rude awakenings
when eddying rapids currented by the tide
Consume the uncertainty and the lies of the day tearing the heart apart
Suspend

Categories: denizens, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Den and Denizens

Lone snowflakes drift in
As anorexic, claustrophobic bats shiver
Wrapped in their bat wing sleeping bags.
A field mouse plays “Three Little Pigs”
With a patch of straw.
An eerie wind whistles wickedly
Alarming an itinerant mole.
I snore, noisily unaware,
That my brother sub-let
His half of the den.

John G. Lawless
©1/21/2023

Categories: denizens, animal, humor, winter,
Form: Personification

Denizens of the Air

2022 was the year the flights disappeared
  Cancellations mounting as Xmas neared
    Hope gave way to despair
    For denizens of the air
  The year's imprimatur ~ a cross to bear

Categories: denizens, christmas, symbolism, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Denizens: Penelope - 3

Part 3 of ? in an unfolding Denizens series

Spring came; Penelope left with a company,
bodyguard, chambermaid, there at her side.
Ten days of travel now lay there before them:
the passage maintained well, the way open, wide. 

For six days, the journey was most uneventful.
Then the air thickened, felt heavy to breathe.
When they made camp in the moonlight

Categories: denizens, adventure, mystery,
Form: Quatrain

Denizens: Beginnings - 2

Part 2 of ?

How did we get to this point in our story, and 
why was the army the king had so small?
It would appear that we need to go farther back,
tell you about this sad king and his fall.

All great adventures come with a sweet princess, and
ours is Penelope, as you will see. 
She

Categories: denizens, adventure, mystery,
Form: Quatrain

Denizens: Prologue - 1

Part 1 of ?

Clippety, cloppety, clippety, cloppety
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
mounted for battle in all of their armor; they
rode off so gallantly through moors and fens.

How could they possibly know what awaited them? 
Would it have mattered, or turned them around? 
Six days out, there has been nary a sign of them, 
and not

Categories: denizens, adventure, death, mystery,
Form: Quatrain

Denizens of the Low Country

Where the sandhill cranes gather,
I stand and watch the swans preen
In the morning sun near the bridge
Alone, except for a circling vulture
All denizens of the lowland culture,
Passing high over the flanking ridge
A red-tail hawk hereabout rarely seen
Above the warm, crystal blue water.

written February 19, 2022
(Using the reverse rhyme scheme
which I have discovered in so many
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Categories: denizens, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

A Message To the Denizens of Poetrysoup

twisting in tingled arcs 
through a cold late september 
breeze, dancing in serpentine 
patterns to the puppeteer strings 
of the wind, a scrap of paper 
gracefully lands upon your windshield 
  
it says 
  
"GET F*CKED"

Categories: denizens, beautiful,
Form: Free verse