A Wrested Weather - Virelai
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Spring winds blow their sound,
Winter now is bound.
Knees in,
Melted, sludgy-browned,
Green peaks through the ground.
These in,
Nature's own impound,
Exiled now, grave moun...
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Categories:
grave mound, celebration, conflict, earth day,
Form: Rhyme
Sunflowers
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“Sunflowers”
She planted the seeds
in their minds
that perhaps
something of beauty
could come from the bad time
could grow there
in their dead pockets
spreadin...
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Categories:
grave mound, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Shattered
...Youth love broken;
bitter lament, low earthen floor.
Dreamed a dream, dominant image spoken,
painful idle no more.
Defile taste of the grave-mound as they lie crumbl...
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Categories:
grave mound, grave, grief, love,
Form: Rhyme
You Are My Sunshine
...She is the rustling of the leaves upon the trees
She is the buzzing of the bees
She is the reflection in your tear
She is the whisper of the wind that brushes against your ear
She is a sunflo...
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Categories:
grave mound, butterfly, death, loss, september,
Form: Lyric
In Memory of a Cat
... In memory of a cat
In those years of innocence
When actions were not guided by much sense
I once killed a little white cat
That had trespassed; I guess, while on the trail of a ra...
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Categories:
grave mound, cat, fear, innocence, kid,
Form: Rhyme