Cycles of Seasonal Changes
...Mid-day darkness crept across the browning meadow
Autumn sought a place to practice her ritual perfidy,
Menacing as an evil spirit she hovered like a shadow
Transformed the green, pluc...
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Categories:
fencerow, change, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
August In the Meadow
...An August sun shines on the meadow,
The goldenrod voicing their approval,
Waving their tall flags of flaxen yellow
Always profuse in bloom, never frugal,
Or shy in making themselves k...
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Categories:
fencerow, august, environment, flower, places,
Form: Rhyme
Daylilies
...I ambled along near fencerow newly built
Running my fingers through the tall daylilies,
Each trumpeting bloom at the top of a lanky stilt
Bringing back memories of mountain hillbillies...
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Categories:
fencerow, flower, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Walk Through the Meadow
...I walked through the meadow this afternoon
To enjoy this spring’s bloodroot growing wild
Short-lived blooms soon disappearing among
The taller stalks of milkweed and columbine.
I mask...
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Categories:
fencerow, adventure, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Story of Sam
...Let me tell you a story about a dog named Sam
Sam was a basset hound of most dubious origins
He had a huge ugly wart on his back, not so glam,
A neighborhood dog, at supper he went abo...
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Categories:
fencerow, animal, death, death of
Form: Narrative