Observing Nature's Beauty
...long tree limbs stretching
over gurgling brook flowing
minnows are dashing
I sit on the bank
observing nature’s beauty
a calming moment
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Categories:
gurgling, beauty, fish, nature, peace,
Form: Senryu
Matsuo Basho English Translations: Spring 1
...Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.
Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho, ...
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Categories:
gurgling, flower, moon, rain, river,
Form: Haiku
Nature Speaks To My Soul
...I stand alone in natures beauty,
in the woods by a trickling stream.
I feel the presence of my destiny,
as a repetitive eternal dream.
I hear the gurgling of water,
as it follows its chosen wa...
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Categories:
gurgling, introspection, nature, silence, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Howling Wilderness
...When wanderlust began pounding my heart,
On a beautiful autumn afternoon, crisp and sunny,
I set out on a trek to the nearby woods.
The leaves on trees had begun turning ruddy.
All ...
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Categories:
gurgling, angst, animal, heartbreak, lost,
Form: Rhyme
His Sunset Years
... in his sunset years he daily
traversed a mile to smile
waiting
w a t c h i n g
A L E R T
the lilt of phantomic voice to
O P E N his
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Categories:
gurgling, allusion, change, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Intrusive Thoughts
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Intrusive Thoughts
Lost in midst of a dense forest
Winding my way amidst tall trees,
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Categories:
gurgling, extended metaphor, life, self,
Form: Rhyme
- The Ruby Of Silence -
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Embrace the silence, listen within
Respecting others means learning to listen
Experience being heard is healing
Listen with your whole self, not just your ears
Silence is the sleep tha...
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Categories:
gurgling, beauty, blessing, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Sizzle
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My hair ripping as her fingernails entwine
pulling my head back
She slaps me harder than she should
Her smile slightly offset
My cheek reddening from the welt of her hand
Shifting herself fo...
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Categories:
gurgling, poems,
Form: Free verse
Scam Likely a Phone Salesman
...Scam Likely called me eleven times yesterday
Fifty-two times this week
I do not pick up
I used to though
When I was younger sales calls were a personal challenge to me.
I wanted to see if I co...
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Categories:
gurgling, people,
Form: Narrative
tin cup music
...tin cup music
life’s story was etched on her face
carved with pocket-knife memories
rubbed in with grammar school erasers
and colored like heavy wet fog
on a stinson beach winter’s morn...
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Categories:
gurgling, dream, endurance, heart,
Form: Free verse
Lingering Dusk - Thomas Kinkade
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mountains white
bathed in the light
of sunset bright
dusk lingers
sun's fingers
are joy bringers
humble homes
with tent-like domes
shine like chromes
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Categories:
gurgling, appreciation, art, nature, winter,
Form: Ekphrasis
In the playground of imagination
...Hiding inside a box
While my rivers run wild
Gardens dance to my tunes
Songs sung in a voiceless mode
Eyes sparkle with shiny stars
Poems bleed on empty pages
Mundane structures matter not
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Categories:
gurgling, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Country Pubs
...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..
Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled.
Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...
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Categories:
gurgling, culture,
Form: Free verse
The Smut - Mar 25,26
...I sense here some things sinister—a scent
of sulphur, sulking in a sultry pit;
a serpent’s hiss, expressed from space unlit;
a warm spell spilling from some seething vent;
I find now some thin...
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Categories:
gurgling, addiction, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Beautiful Mammoth Mountain Memories
...Drinking from clear, gurgling streams,
catching frogs, unfolding dreams,
without iPhones, watches or clocks,
sitting high on granite rocks -
my memory is unwinding
a young boy exploring and fin...
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Categories:
gurgling, beautiful, childhood, memory, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
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