A Dream of Higher Powers
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The other night
Visiting in a dream a foreign land
We waited in expectation
The arrival of a group of alien dignitaries
Somehow involved in guiding the culture.
When they approached across ...
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Categories:
hand hewn, allegory, dream, humorous, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
A Home In the Mountain Pines
...There is a hand-hewn log cabin,
Nestled in the rocks of a Colorado peak.
I so long to go and spend some time,
In his home in the pines at peace.
My lover is a strong mountain man,
Who chooses...
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Categories:
hand hewn, longing, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Damn the Rain
...floodwaters pour out my ears
like some Black Plague fountain
with spitting angels
life can be hard to look at
images spilling into boots
filling with blood and ignorance
everyone a con artist o...
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Categories:
hand hewn, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Rolling Greens
...The rolling Greens seem so serene,
forests pristine in sunlight’s sheen,
tall, rounded peak, a rocky creek,
a red-tail’s beak, rodents he seeks,
an aged elm, rare in this realm,
stands at th...
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Categories:
hand hewn, america, appreciation, community, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Hand-Hewn
...It was cut down in eighteen hundred seven,
a chestnut tall, stretched half to heaven,
hand-hewn with axes by Georgia pioneers,
to build up a barn for pigs and steers.
Still standing today, a mi...
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Categories:
hand hewn, age, appreciation, beauty, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Texas Treasure Tragedy, Part Ii
...He rose from his half-finished whisky,
and set out, clear out of town.
Blackjack would be very keen to know
what the soft, little clerk had found.
Gil rode back out into the desert,
retracing ...
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Categories:
hand hewn, history, hope, loss, time,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Concord Massachusetts Passingways
...Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them
I swing around enormous trees
skirt quickly...trying to catch up
were we holding hands as we walked
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Categories:
hand hewn, funeral, garden, history, i
Form: Free verse
Weathered Wall
...(A Salute to Robert Frost)
A fence of hand-hewn rock spans miles
of wind-swept road through fields of grain.
Uneven edge of rock, worn smooth
by storm’s hard breath of gust and rain
withstan...
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Categories:
hand hewn, animal, autumn, sweet, time,
Form: Quatrain
Dream Home
...DREAM HOME
Our home will be of stone from the mountain
And wood from forest cedars, hand hewn,
With a fireplace large against winter’s domain,
And a concertina in the evening playing a tune. ...
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Categories:
hand hewn, imagination, home, home,
Form: Quatrain
Hoosier Barn
...I returned to the place of my birth a few months ago.
Visiting there always gives my languid soul a glow.
The house still looks good but the old barn is showing its age.
How long it will weather t...
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Categories:
hand hewn, nostalgiaold, old, time,
Form: Rhyme
Old Barns, Old Folks and Old Wine
...Old barns, old folks and old wine - an unlikely trio upon which to muse,
But the analogies will become manifest as upon each I proffer my views.
Though the vicissitudes of life have taken their tol...
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Categories:
hand hewn, introspectionold, life, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Private Lives of Those I'Ve Loved
...The hutch
like everything else in this house is
crooked. A slanting hardwood floor
and the burnished ends
of an ancient table.
An ever rounding table
"a table with history" she says,
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Categories:
hand hewn, family, people, places, house,
Form: I do not know?