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WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?

...WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?

We came across the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago. 
We didn't linger long up there – 'twas 99 below!
We wandered south while looking for a Timmy's 'round each bend,...

Categories: fiddleheads, humor, pride, song,
Form: Rhyme

GARDEN PLANTS

...The fern spreads out to form a perfect fan,
A pleasing show with pristine symmetry. 
Proud fronds with discipline, a splendid sight
And offspring fiddleheads are unfurling.

On verticals the ivy...

Categories: fiddleheads, garden,
Form: Blank verse

Contemplation

...the leaves of autumn
once vibrant against
october's gray slate
and windrowed against
long forgotten stone boundaries 

 - once kicked
and shuffled through
on the wooded path
that leads to no...

Categories: fiddleheads, life, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Craziest Time At the Time of Spilled Soup

...Craziest Time at the Time of Spilled Soup

I spilled a bowl of vegetable soup – 
 Slipped on the shiny waxed floor;
The scene I saw made my muse utter expletives – 
 Fainting in horror at the ki...

Categories: fiddleheads, crazy, food, funny,
Form: Free verse

Fiddleheads On the River Walls

...I know it's there somewhere beyond the clouds,
beyond the snow which gently floats and falls
on arborvitae's shoulders like a shawl
and o're the face of summer with a shroud.
Above where prayerfu...

Categories: fiddleheads, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Woodland Walk

... Debris underfoot
Pathway winds through bluebell wood
Dappled sun lights way.

Fiddleheads unfurl
Moss grows green, trees stand tall
Stately Queen Anne's Lace.

Seasonal rotation
...

Categories: fiddleheads, beautiful, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku

Morels

...Maybe, if everyone behaves themselves,
If the snowpack is deep and thick around elm and maple,
And the tourists didn't stay away for lack of snow.
If the temperatures stay cold at night, and warm ...

Categories: fiddleheads, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse

The Abcs of Pubescences

...An adjustment of ageless allure,
Buzzing bees, chirping birds,
Conversations confused, girls play coy.
Disconcerted; demanding; desire.
Early stages evolving each day,
Form like fiddleheads frol...

Categories: fiddleheads, life, miracle,
Form: Abecedarian

The Final Cause

...By the time the fever set in,
The leaves had already turned,
Turned that is, into the colors,
Already there beforehand.

—

The bursting verdant stickiness,
Of nipple spring,
June’s coy leaf...

Categories: fiddleheads, creation, death,
Form: Free verse

Haiku 67

...Haiku 67
	
	
	cool mist’s embrace
	Smoky Mountains hiding
	morning miasma
	
	white dogwood flowers
	Tennessee deep forest shade
	fiddleheads unfurl...

Categories: fiddleheads, nature,
Form: Haiku

New Fiddleheads

...new fiddleheads
rising their leaves skyward—
wildfire near

Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...

Categories: fiddleheads, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Haiku

Ah, To Be a Deer

...Oh, the incessant noise, the jibber jabber,
civilization’s cure for loneliness,
the panacea for boredom.
If only, if only, “You’ve got male.”
would be an answer.
Ah, but no…

Tweet on, “Oh shi...

Categories: fiddleheads, animals, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse

Ah, Deer

...Oh, the incessant noise, the jibber jabber,
civilization’s cure for loneliness,
the panacea for boredom.
If only, if only, “You’ve got male.”
would be an answer.
Ah, but no…

Tweet on, “Oh shi...

Categories: fiddleheads, adventure, allegory, angst, animals
Form: Free verse