Winter Farewell Poems

Born to a land unspoiled and free
The mighty sequoia was on the ascendancy
Ancient elders stood erect and proud
Free from threats to pierce a cloud

Out of...

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Winter is gone
It's already midnight
Spring is here
With her flowers and presents
We have a new season
Everyone knows the reason
Since the girls are pretty
And the women wear...

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Spring winds clean winter branches
Leaves billow far from home
A maple tree sheds its own in tune
No one is around to collect them
Flat and perfect to...

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Floating gently on a breeze of serendipity,
Soaring the celestial skies, heavens window, 
I catch one final wistful, breathless breath, 
And from above with sadness look...

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Inoculate…
this infectious night
fullest pathogen born  
in cold and deepest hour
heedless held in palm endow  
crosses shadow lowly hill 
flick across my brow…
 ...

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They cannot come to an agreement on how to solve the ground dove’s problem, all the birds are flying around picking at the feather in...

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An old year is slowly winding down
Where every minute and second count
Don’t hold our breath, just count down
Gently and slowly. A new year, a new...

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It was a winter evening, the sun had to go early.
I could hear the cry of our dear cat, his sunken eyes wished
to tell a...

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shadowed ...

the China hills
like little pills set on end
and stairs that wend to the moon
so far from June, he thought
wrought now with frustration
on the ramp...

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On a spring day without you.
Even if you aren’t there, I still remember you.

Over the clouds and peaks up high, across the rivers, across the...

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Spring arrived, ‘Twas the dawn of man
Consciousness exploded with a Big Bang
We foraged inquisitively for berries and nuts
Soon building settlements and primitive huts

A subtle spark...

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The dewy raindrops land,
Caught by the sage green leaves,
Stems holding up the petite petals,
As summertime prepares to flee.

The sky cries above me,
Into the palms of...

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Shored-up wooden boats standing in the mud, braced by boards to stand erect,
   
We vigilant men past sixty, retain our dignity, and...

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Like a winter sunset
What, too, fading
For a sung piece, as dismal
Hearts that can suck up no more
Damp moods sink in

This farewell's sights and sounds.
Worst. Death...

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Written: June 16, 2023



Dead flower's last bud
ebbing mana of the wane yearns -
a rotting flower mourns

she has a yen for the

brimming sun song weaves
shielding in...

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