Spring
...Torrential downpours batter the awning
Above my bedroom during early spring
Tip, tap the water collects and drains from
The downspout to the black, impervious road;
Far in the distance are ominou...
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Categories:
downspout, nature,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Aluminum Downspout
...aluminum downspout
raindrop swells and sw-
tink...
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Categories:
downspout, night,
Form: Haiku
Winter's Slow Embrace
...through drip
and downspout
trickle the earth
collects all
water from
the house
pulling it
tightly to
her body
in a slow
embrace...
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Categories:
downspout, rain, storm, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse
Poisons of Man
...I woke to the sound
of tears echoing
form a downspout
Heard the sobbing
whispering between
the leaves
As I listened in
the stillness
I heard moans
coming from the earth
I walked around ...
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Categories:
downspout, angst, earth,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
downspout,
Form: Haiku
Ninja Trolls
...Crazy… can’t begin to describe, some of my Trolls, many ways.
But suddenly it was ninja this, and ninja that, today.
You should see them in black, though; they’re way too big to miss!
Shiny baubl...
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Categories:
downspout, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
A Window Shuts
...An intense aroma from Mother's lilac bushes
satiate the air through our open kitchen window
Robins perched on the rusty downspout
falling from our old front porch,
whistling their sound of peek, ...
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Categories:
downspout, sadold, music, music, old,
Form: Free verse
I Saw You In the Rain
...Sitting for what seems hours
listening to the rain
I find myself hypnotized
by the puddle
forming at the bottom
of the downspout.
The air is cold
yet I don’t notice until
goosebumps cover
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Categories:
downspout, caregiving, family, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse