Spring Human Poems

Spring is the best time of the year for this old crabapple tree. Winters are too lonely and summers too hot. Autumn is nice but...

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Written 22 December 2023
Forgiveness Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Robert James Langouri

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The Cost of a Human Life

I sat as an observer
in a state’s superior court.
First-degree murder was the charge.
Cold blooded calculated murder was the act.
One teen...

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Why dare I task thick clouds on their own turf
With smug like immortal engraves my wing;
The rain— for my feather to wade and surf
like lightning...

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A curve of sky
in a corner cusps a smooth,
thick dusting 

of carrot-mauve hues 
tonight. Drapes over heather
trees 

whose arms 
and hands bend with this drowsy...

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somewhere between light and a dream
I arise
to a time
neither dead nor alive

between winter and spring

a fresh fall of snow after
a warm day
but now the sun...

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My heart is not made of steel, 
it shatters at the touch of trauma,
and cries at the sight of isolation.
My brain is not filled with...

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In clouds of spring fresh whispy dreams prevail
They tell of joy as hope in hearts arise
With youthful frolic's yearning wishing wells
In fairytales seen through poetic...

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Watching from my window sill
I saw him walking, a lion in thrill
Streets shivering of his mighty shrill
On his call they come and fill
An army of...

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Spring is like childhood
Time to grow
Develop roots
Experience the warmth of the sun
And bathe in the soothing rain.

Summer is like youth
Grows stronger
Roots sink deeper
Heavy rain and...

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o' this spring lives in this lane
and coming with enchanting heart,
here Jessamine flowers is cradling
peaceful conch-shell is calling the god of roses
fragrance of tuberose is...

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Loud insistent dragons are pounding at my brick walls.
Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. No walls now. 
These giant creatures have escaped, uninhibited, free.
In a happy,...

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I breathe you
      into my depths
          sighing ...
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16b Stargazing 

Here they filed into a hallway
Into almost total darkness
Just a pair of flick’ring candles
Led them to an inner circle
 
At its center was...

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Spring: Toddler

Do you remember young love? 
Maybe you think that you do? 
Do you recall your first dream of a kiss? 

Might it be still...

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