Ghost Bike
...pink fireweed blooms
through the spokes of the ghost bike
beside the highway
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Categories:
fireweed, art, beauty, creation, death,
Form: Haiku
Fireweed
...I'm gonna get going Friday morning
I'd like to stay but it's best I'm going
Things don't feel like they should be
So I'll hit the road and just be free
You're the prettiest girl there's ever be...
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Categories:
fireweed, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Wonderful Sight
...Sunrise,
Sky crimson all over.
The high mountains are still dressed with snow.
Clouds
Surround the vale
As if to protect what’s below.
So many blooming trees,
Though the Scandinavian Mount...
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Categories:
fireweed, spring,
Form: Free verse
Weeds By Nickname Cursed
...Dear herb, shrub, vine and bush
if you be deemed unwanted or a pest,
your name is cursed to be unspoken,
or twisted into a foul nickname scourge.
To graziers you are Paterson's Curse
To beekeep...
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Categories:
fireweed, garden,
Form: Free verse
Nobody's Home
...Slender, whispering and flaming fireweed surrounds
the gray-weathered clapboards of the deserted
homestead whose torn gingham curtains blow among
the paneless windows with the gentle breeze of
su...
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Categories:
fireweed, nostalgia,
Form: Prose
The Force of Passion
...THE FORCE OF PASSION
It’s Apparent--
bracing
exhilarating
pure
as the mountain air
that leaps
into my starving lungs
That Passion--
as ripe
as Autumn Fireweed
that Blazes
Seared Eyes
&
Bravo Br...
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Categories:
fireweed, nature, passion, philosophy, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Silver In Mud
...no more small talk to say in numbers walking the trail
and these are added up and equal now us on the mountain marsh exploring
in the mind's eye glittering
like water oozing quicksilvers under th...
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Categories:
fireweed, nature
Form: Free verse