Forests of Green Coniferous Trees
...Forests of Green Coniferous Trees
Forests of evergreen conifers
(Fir, spruce, cedar, pine, and hemlock trees)
Keep their colour throughout the seasons
And don’t shed foliage in autumn.
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Categories:
hillsides, nature, tree,
Form: Verse
The Joys of Springtime
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The Joys of Springtime
When spring sunshine spreads its carpet of greens
On prairies, meadows, valley...
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Categories:
hillsides, appreciation, flower, joy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn in New England
...Autumn
paints New England,
staining hillsides, wrapped
in red,
garnishing the trail
beneath my steps.
The season spills
like cabernet across
a changing landscape;
where the maples
ble...
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Categories:
hillsides, autumn, color, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Elegy for Old Growth
...Elegy – 7-17-24
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Elegy for Old Growth
Through measures of metered melancholy
The tattered winds sing a rent elegy,
A pensive wai...
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Categories:
hillsides, death, life, nature,
Form: Elegy
Leaving Tipperary behind
...Leaving Tipperary behind
the rolls of greenery industrial
findings fields of yellow catering
to my innermost calm I’d always
remember my home in Mason
thee unforgettable rebellion
costly ...
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Categories:
hillsides, allah, inspirational love,
Form: Manqabat
If Only You Knew
...If only you knew the feel of a zephyr,
With its current swooping around hillsides
Ruffling the spruce trees everywhere,
Or descend downwards towards verdant vales
Where flowers bloom all through ...
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Categories:
hillsides, abuse, food, humanity, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Digital Box Tops
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When food and clean water linger moments from lips and anything else at our fingertips,
Quadruple consumption settles to stay and anything paper is just one click away
When they sell us our p...
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Categories:
hillsides, anger, earth, growth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Road Trip Sonnet
...Gas station snacks piled in the free seat,
windows half-cracked to catch onrushing air,
velocity cools the day’s outer heat,
blowing around my girlfriend’s auburn hair.
Avoid dull highways, take ...
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Categories:
hillsides, appreciation, engagement, farm, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Not Ready Yet
...Not Ready Yet
Give me just one more day of Christmas jubilee
Not ready to let go of Christmas, yet
Or stop gathering flecks of stardust
Scattered from the Heavens
Still reveling in the sweet...
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Categories:
hillsides, christmas, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
winter flurries fall
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winter flurries fall
crystal snowflakes quilt hillsides ~
lustrous in moonlight
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Categories:
hillsides, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Haiku
Blazing Hills of Autumn
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Hillsides were ablaze
from sunlight's saffron fingers
Leaves fell like raindrops
from branches of ancient trees
What a stunning Autumn scene
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Categories:
hillsides, autumn,
Form: Tanka
Autumnal
..."A melody whispers through the trees in the Autumnal season.
A colorful song, a sing along, and nature's beauty is the reason."
~ by ...
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Categories:
hillsides, autumn, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Rain
...Beautiful rain
By Michelle Morris
02/08/2023
Oh, beautiful rain
Oh, beautiful rain
I see your gentle tears
Oh, beautiful rain
Oh, beautiful rain
I feel your love draw near
The grass i...
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Categories:
hillsides, beautiful, blessing, environment, green,
Form: Rhyme
Landscape
...LANDSCAPE
Noon time, the star in the sky burning at zenith
The deep azure, was radiant with fiery heat
Laid on the skyline, its dome calm and serene
The yonder river, slowly ran on the grey...
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Categories:
hillsides, nature, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Screen Door Summers
...Dusty and distraught the afternoon laid out
like a sun-shaped jewel ahead of us.
Our marble eyes will fill up with salty tears
and the rivers will swell until they drown
the glittering meadows ...
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Categories:
hillsides, beautiful, birthday,
Form: Free verse
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