Gaia Embraces the Elements
...Gaia embraces the root network of the world’s fleshiest trees
sand, stone, clay and black dirt swirl around her ancient core
gemstones of emerald, opal and topaz lie dormant
oceans figure out a pl...
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Categories:
hickories, earth,
Form: Free verse
Flowers and Trees
...Marigolds with your ruffled edges and your prissy girly ways,
You uplift me on my most almost horrific downward days.
Lilacs fragrances wafting about in every one of my Mays,
You make me proud wit...
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Categories:
hickories, flower, tree,
Form: Rhyme
My Private Nirvana
...Oaks, sycamores and hickories greet me in my favorite woods.
I walk through dappled sunlight, taking my jacket off as I walk.
Down the familiar dirt path, I reach my favorite relaxation spot.
A ti...
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Categories:
hickories, nature,
Form: Free verse
Manhattan Manahatta Memories
...Upon my asking a lone Lenape
what happened to their tribal home;
so soulful that he barely told me
the tragic tale of how it had gone.
The white man thought he coyly took it
a thing that he ca...
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Categories:
hickories, earth, lost, memory, native
Form: Rhyme
Lightning Takes the Forest
...A flash of light
In the woods
Quick popping noise
Streak across the sky
Stars brighten
and glisten
against dark of night
as two lightning bolts strike
Animals take cover
Under fallen oak...
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Categories:
hickories, weather,
Form: Free verse
Interlopers
...Thirty years ago, multi-floral rose and
fruit laden wild berry bushes could be
found in abundance everywhere around here.
Native grasses provided shelter
to the ground nesters and the
warm su...
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Categories:
hickories, anger, how i feel,
Form: Prose
A Rustic Vermont Landscape
...The verdant leaves
of the cherry trees
rustle as a wagon
loaded with corn
rides deeper into the wide ruts
of a rustic road,
hungry ruminants wallow
by a limpid lake;
cheerful kids wave
and w...
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Categories:
hickories, music, nature, peace, places,
Form: Pastoral
Tepid Breeze, Lull Me To Sleep
...Tepid breeze, lull me to sleep
on this grass softer than hay;
all the aches make my brittle bones weak,
they need rest, not asking my body to wander away...
And if I fall asleep, I would lik...
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Categories:
hickories, inspirational, music, nature, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Night Is Not Like Day
...Night is not like day,
when my body is groggy and I get tired,
but sleep doesn't come suddenly...
Even when the macabre darkness reigns,
I seek the hidden moon among the hickories,
to make m...
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Categories:
hickories, music, mystery, nature, sea,
Form: Terza Rima