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Harebells Poems

Machair

...Again the machair blooms. Again these wild
Atlantic shorelines, battered but unbowed
as the marram grass, survive the wayward
blasts of winter, the silver sands endowed
with dancing colour, greet...

Categories: harebells, celebration, change, flower, seasons,
Form: Blank verse

The Greenwood - Villanelle

...The Greenwood - Villanelle

     Under the ancient greenwood’s leafy shade,
     Beneath the hornbeam and the spreading oak
     Where moonglow shines into the sylvan glade

     From the Elven...

Categories: harebells, celebration, dance, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Villanelle

A Highland Trip

...I entered the hotel dining room and sat at my table for an early breakfast, watching the rain pelting against the windows, overlooking the River Clyde. Conversation was limited; more audible the clin...

Categories: harebells, travel, weather,
Form: Haibun

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Summers Walk

...Flaxen fields of rye and wheat
Basking in the summer heat.
The curlews haunting, plaintive cry 
In hurried flight they cross the sky.

Around the fields the hedgerows grow
Full of thorny briar,...

Categories: harebells, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Dark Angels of Highgate

...Enough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.  
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward,...

Categories: harebells, death,
Form: Sestina

Fairy Dust

...Down the bottom of the garden
where the mushrooms abound
is where you will find our home
pretty houses made of cobwebs

They sparkle and glitter in the sun
see our fairy ring where we dance
the large...

Categories: harebells, fairy,
Form: Free verse