Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories:
hiemal, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
A Flowerless Corpse
...Snowing-- a hiemal, deathly air
Their frigid, frostbitten fingers hold nothing
Uncomfortable silence washes over all there
A petalless, thorny rose someone is clutching
Her corpse,...
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Categories:
hiemal, angst, appreciation, betrayal, dark,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Grim Thrum Epiphany
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Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab grief, of hiemal cradle
mirthless, a desolate land
shrouded in frozen dol...
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Categories:
hiemal, adventure, analogy, bereavement, character,
Form: Free verse
Arctic Afterglow
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When the
glacial sun slips
in softened womb
of the scarlet
spheres at dusk,
yearning for
hibernal rebirth
as a lustrous
morning star,
it radiates
golden beams
like lakes...
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Categories:
hiemal, dream, emotions, first love,
Form: Free verse
The Lilt of Lilac Melodies
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Wan is the hiemal world outdoors,
The biting breeze blows bitter,
like a blizzard building in momentum,
Cold creeps in through the closed windows,
But his harmonic heart is happy an...
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Categories:
hiemal, inspirational, music, purple, winter,
Form: Verse
Dance of Life and Death
...Written: September 15, 2023
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In the halter of destiny, we are all bound.
A monody of souls dissemble and found
With eve...
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Categories:
hiemal, analogy, appreciation, death, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Heart of Spring
...The Heart of Spring
Spring's heart slips through small winter cracks
Breaks through brumaled icy attacks
Coaxes snow and ice - melt away
Ignores icebound pleas to stay
Hoary whispers silenced ...
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Categories:
hiemal, heart, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Restaurant Reapings 2
...Luckily, the languor didn't last long as a fit of spry gaits hopped into my attention and automatically carried it over------ that was a pair of fine feet in white sneakers. My eyeballs were soon cap...
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Categories:
hiemal, inspirational, writing,
Form: Haibun
Of Moments In Winter
...A chill in the air
ignites my dry bones
washing over with sweetness.
I inhale, consumed with an appetite
assuaged only with the kiss of hiemal night.
Branches spindly, frigid, and gaunt
strike ...
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Categories:
hiemal, winter,
Form: Free verse
Autumn's Silent Verse
...I hear the words. In autumn's silent verse
lie anapestic wafts of falling leaves
with golden syllables both bright and terse,
the crimson pluck of summer as it grieves
its loss of verdant shimm...
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Categories:
hiemal, autumn, color, metaphor, nature,
Form: Quatrain
A Winter Sun
...Upon this yearly powdered dale,
where leafless birch in talon-ed stance
come begging in their circumstance,
the snowflakes fell in silent veil
as thick as densely woven cloth
to gale a new ye...
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Categories:
hiemal, snow, sun, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Winter
...Heavenly snowfall,
after dark harsh hiemal night,
breaths to warmth embrace,
youthful lovers led astray,
as ...
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Categories:
hiemal, magic, snow, winter,
Form: Tanka