The Road Up
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The Road Up
The road up
hugs the side of a hill
and steep slopes fall
into dark gullies far below.
In places, tree trunks still wear
the blackened scars of past fires.
Further up, yo...
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Categories:
gullies, growth, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse
Spring showers
...I heard a loud rattling on the roof,
I thought it was the dog playing with my shoes
the rattling gets louder and louder so I went to
inquire but it was the rain pouring down
and a ferocious wind ...
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Categories:
gullies, adventure, america, appreciation, career,
Form: Narrative
Magic In The Skies
...There is a strange movement swirling around in the sky, bringing down showers of rain, soaking the dry thirsty earth, leaving puddles and pools on the surface of the ground, filling up rivers and str...
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Categories:
gullies, america, appreciation, art, business,
Form: Narrative
Village Evening
...An autumn night.
How wondrous is its tranquil stillness,
The night breeze gently caresses my face.
Sheep is chew, camels cry, dogs bark,
All revealing the village’s lively pace.
Star...
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Categories:
gullies, nature,
Form: Free verse
Moon
...Moon, why do you taunt me?
Your haunting glow consumes all I am.
I howl at your feet as you hang majestic
from a diamante sky
I am breathless, shackled to the earth as I gaze at your beauty, your...
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Categories:
gullies, moon,
Form: Free verse
Hindered Emotions
...Intense suffrage ,malice behaved
while a sullen energy, balanced
upon, broad shoulders ,of pure
angst, I'd remember, your tainted
humongous shift, creating wrath
bestowed, so overtime, cap...
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Categories:
gullies, gothic, passion, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Phases
...Phases
rainstorm, thunderbolt
in the desert
umbrella promise to protect us betrayed
a flash flood washed away our treasury empty –
into capital banks of self, less of -ish democra...
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Categories:
gullies, future, hope, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
The House
...He had not dwelt there long,
he was a tenant
a traveler.
The stone walls carried no sound
to the outside,
but on the inside
every movement and whisper
was transmitted and amplified
through ...
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Categories:
gullies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Dying Winter
...The rain stopped,
Heavy bank of clouds remained,
Afternoon was dark until dusk,
No light to draw back the day,
A strong frost shock,
Gripping the land,
Unrelenting,
The trees fell silent,
A...
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Categories:
gullies, winter,
Form: Free verse
Poem To Your Incredible Indecifrable Eyes
...Abyssal, abysmal, profound,
superficial, light, evident,
your eyes change color...
Cracks, gaps, ruptures,
labyrinths, anguishes, throat
your eyes confine my desires...
Precipices, cliffs, gull...
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Categories:
gullies, allegory, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Light Verse
Bunyip Forest Revisited
...Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where gullies, washes speak ‘abused!’
Reclamation offers ...
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Categories:
gullies, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Berkshire Stream
...Born of snow on Berkshire Mountain,
winter’s beauty lies a sleeping.
Snow on snow in layers piling
Kept in place by nature’s freezer
When the voice of springtime whispers,
days are longer, ai...
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Categories:
gullies, mountains, nature, snow, spring,
Form: Free verse
Today
...A day has come
because God brought it forth.
Creation reveals his
diamond-like worth
even though some people
fail to see.
Green blades of grass grow to cover the
hillside,
I wonder
just wh...
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Categories:
gullies, art,
Form: I do not know?
Moorland Path
...The path between myself and the distant man
twists and turns. There are gullies and ridges
hags and troughs, a hoary dusk.
We are converging. He has my hat and clothes,
my resemblance.
Onc...
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Categories:
gullies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Waterfall An English Sonnet
...Water flowing downward from the hilltop
Meandering through gullies and the fell
Even bigger mountains for the backdrop
Where it really starts so hard to tell
Reaching a low cliff it becomes air...
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Categories:
gullies, water,
Form: Sonnet
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