The Window Shakes
...The window shakes from rain fast-beating,
From grey-torn clouds the sky fast-fleeting,
Relentless vapours madly swirling,
First autumn deluge earthwards hurling.
The chimney howls from wind mad...
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Categories:
earthwards, autumn, bible, god, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
Brief Encounter
...peregrine stoops
fluster of feathers
pirouettes earthwards...
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Categories:
earthwards, bird, death,
Form: Haiku
A Leap In the Dark
...earthwards
madarin ducklings flutter-
faith leaps into the dark
alone...
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Categories:
earthwards, bird, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Weeping Ash Ballad
...Weeping Ash
Mourn for me tonight, Weeping Ash;
Break my heart and all my hopes crash.
Let your gnarled knuckles crack and creak;
Let your contorted mouth still shriek
Silently.
Come under my...
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Categories:
earthwards, depression,
Form: Ballad
Weeping Ash Song
...Weeping Ash Song
My dancing leaves eddy and swirl
And my elegant arms unfurl.
Come under my dark canopy
In the storm’s hidden harmony.
The laughter of children resound,
Echoes lost in the c...
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Categories:
earthwards, depression,
Form: Couplet
Poisoner
...red kite circles
and gazes earthwards -
skilled hunter
shadow gazes skywards
and places poisoned corpse -
coward...
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Categories:
earthwards, bird, murder,
Form: I do not know?
I Wish I Had Time For Poetry and Plays
...I wish I had time for poetry and plays
My mind allowed
As I watched the same aged, bespectacled monk
For about the fifteenth time this month
Patter his bare feet
Upon the pavement
Of the dust...
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Categories:
earthwards, me, philosophy, places, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cinqku 27
...earthwards
madarin
ducklings flutter-
faith leaps into the dark
alone...
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Categories:
earthwards, animals, faith, nature,
Form: Cinqku