Victorian Christmas Past
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Upon a grassy hill, so long ago,
our lovely, old Victorian-style home
was built in eighteen eighty-six, aglow
with cozy rooms and firesides burning bright.
So charming were the win...
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Categories:
firesides, christmas, tribute,
Form: Blank verse
Flannel, Quilts and Nippy Nights
...Summertime is finally fleeting
and oddly, though, I am not sad.
Yes, the fields will soon be emptied
of pastel-colored flowers and buzzing bees
and wading knee-deep in tall, wild grass
as the su...
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Categories:
firesides, august, autumn, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Flannel, Quilts and Nippy Nights
...Summertime is finally fleeting
and oddly, though, I am not sad.
Yes, the fields will soon be emptied
of pastel-colored flowers and buzzing bees
and wading knee-deep in tall, wild grass
as the su...
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Categories:
firesides, august, autumn, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Not Ready Yet
...Not Ready Yet
Give me just one more day of Christmas jubilee
Not ready to let go of Christmas, yet
Or stop gathering flecks of stardust
Scattered from the Heavens
Still reveling in the sweet...
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Categories:
firesides, christmas, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Spirit of the Ancient Isles
...Spirit of the ancient isles,
Of Erin and of Albion,
I call to thee,
Please come to us,
Ancient spirit come to me,
I call to thee,
In moorland wind,
And highland glen,
In summer meadow,
By Gr...
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Categories:
firesides, devotion, earth, environment, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Man At Gunpoint 2
...Some men keep real cool at gunpoint
Having been swimming in the company of the military,
The nozzles of guns surveying in moments solitary:
Witnesses to soldiers dipping their fingers in wallets
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Categories:
firesides, anxiety, courage, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Just Hibernate
...Winter bends low to blow gusty breaths, cold,
out of his northern lair beyond the warm
of summer’s enfolding. Capricious, bold
he plans his escapades of icy storm.
Clutching for a covering, natur...
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Categories:
firesides, seasons, snow, winter,
Form: Sonnet
My Winter Wonderland
...When winter comes it brings a special charm
With holidays and decorated trees
With guests and firesides to keep us warm
Despite the icy chill of winter's freeze
That torments us with plummeting d...
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Categories:
firesides, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
...Autumn
Chilled breezes blow.
Warm firesides glow.
Pumpkins
Orange and round
Litter the ground.
Skies
Hold November rains.
Soak gentle plains.
Maple Trees
D...
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Categories:
firesides, autumn,
Form: Couplet
Honeysuckle and Cardamon Spice Reminisces
...Cognac & Brandy recollections,
sublime warmth 'tween
smoky exhaled vapors,
wisps of Madagascar aromatics
& blazes of Autumn firesides
amidst a French Château fantasy,...
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Categories:
firesides, autumn, desire, dream, fire,
Form: Imagism
Castle On the Hill
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Upon a grassy hill, so long ago,
there stood a lovely 'castle', tall and white;
was built in eighteen eighty-six, aglow
with cozy rooms and firesides burning bright.
So charming were the windi...
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Categories:
firesides, house, memory,
Form: Sonnet
The Seasons From My Meadow
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Green as emerald lays the soft soft grass;
Dotted slightly with red, blue and yellow.
Lay down I shall, while watching the world
In my golden sunfilled meadow.
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Categories:
firesides, animal, earth, happy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
We'Ve Been Alone Too Long
...We've Been Alone Too Long
Different roads we’ve traveled down
To reach our destiny.
Many lonesome highways
Brought you here to me.
I see you now as in the dreams
I had those nights ...
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Categories:
firesides, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Winters Tale
...In the wintry countryside, January bares her soul and lets little buds grow,
Under drifts of pure white snow, hedge high frost hardened, there is movement,
Shoots of brave winter flowers wake, and th...
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Categories:
firesides, nature, winter, snow, snow,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Winter Tale
...In the wintry countryside, January bares her soul and lets little buds grow,
Under drifts of pure white snow, hedge high frost hardened, there is movement,
Shoots of brave winter flowers wake, and th...
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Categories:
firesides, nature, winter, snow, snow,
Form: Prose Poetry
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