Halloween In the Heartland
Skeletal feet clickity clack,
a zombie child chewing bubble gum
giggles.
I have set a cackling witch at my door
but none are sacred tonight,
yet the cold hand of the dark
shivers all.
Candy is proffered,
horror masks nod, drool and moan,
bone handed gloves
grab recently caught Swedish Fish.
I shove the witches switch at them,
it's the only way
to save some treats
for the hungry
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Categories:
heartland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Refuge - Natures Heartland
refuge
I spot two ducks
and using my fancy
I picture them in nesting mode
more ducks
meadow
mankind’s playground
humans on a picnic
strangely frightened, left in a rush.
litter
mid-stream
kids formed a dam
in the years past and gone
a safe place for spawning catfish
shelter
forest
tall evergreens,
fragrant pine-needle floor
has become wild creatures’ heartland
haven
white clouds
no sign of rain
people no longer come
what may be hiding in the
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Categories:
heartland, 11th grade, animal, nature,
Form: Cinquain
Dastardly Dispirited
Sadness within me is my skald,
Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld,
Why is my soul in this soil pinfold...
The sky is filled with dark enshroud,
Am dumbstruck, thunderstorms cloud...
Love is an unloved harken,
The heart in me, a shrunken token...
Fey reliquary in the sand,
Buffing the defoliated leaves off my land,
She lay her tears on my heartland...
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Categories:
heartland, abuse, betrayal, courage, lost
Form: Rhyme
Heartland
I woke up one day as I didn't know what to do or say and found hope coming back my way on this precious day. In return I was horrified for not knowing what was to come,although again I found it all not feeling controlled just letting it all go just walk and stand tall
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Categories:
heartland, beautiful, childhood, dream, friendship,
Form: Concrete
The Heartland
The Heartland
A living human is a universe
Animated by the Heartland kingdom
Since the juvenile age, it's disturbed
By the desire of Love
Some universes dream being conquered
By a gorgeous attractive empire
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Categories:
heartland, love, romancedesire, universe,
Form: Free verse
Communion of My Heartland
I yield to the earth
in supplication to nature
with worship in each breath
listening to a sermon
of kookaburras
as a kangaroo bounds out
a plate for tithe
I see goannas parade
the ancient rites
and koalas swoon
with the new age gospel
waving their faces,
and hanging from their mouths
and the platypus
monks of cold,
carry the testaments
to the deepest hovels
living with just one heart
I can
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Categories:
heartland, faith, imagination
Form: Free verse
No Place Like the Heartland
With serenity
Of nature all around us
Peace comes forth smoothly
By: Misty Leccese
© June 28, 2009
Inspired by Raul's contest.
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Categories:
heartland, nature, peace
Form: Haiku