Seasons Imagism Poems

Spring bring forth the LIFE
Summer living the BREATH
Autumn dying near STRIFE
Winter raptures our DEATH


2019 September 09


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If Summer were a color
Then it might be yellow-green—
Turned amber by the breath of fall,
Of the seasons in between.

And if Autumn were a color 
Would...

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Winter perennials lavished with hope
under layers of crisp snow
waiting their turn 

Spring perennials hope to be noticed
duller than annuals
but more dependable and loyal

Summer perennials outlasting...

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I humbly salute you,
For giving me such a visual feast,
As I look at the multi-coloured carpet of leaves you place under my feet.

I humbly salute...

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presto
spinning
       twirling
down
      this
          staircase
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Briefly,
a passing shower
quenched an arid field.

Slowly,
an unforgiving sun
parched it anew.


©2/20/2018

submitted to – Sunshine and Showers – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Robert Haigh
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Originating from a tropical country
My family and I decided to go to Taiwan
We were on an airbus, big and long
Sitting with each other and playing
We...

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A YOUNG AND CHARMING HANDSOME FELLA 
WENT IN SEARCH OF CINDERELLA.
QUITE THE ADVENTURE TO SAY THE LEAST. 
ALONG THE WAY HE WOULD MEET A BEAST.
SHE...

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This long time doodling Yankee 
(who calls Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvania LV
plus III four seasons visited 
   upon swath of topography to see
and hear...

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across the meadow
the fog blankets the hedge
stillness in a low mist
hides the horizon-
the sun awakes...

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As brief as summer you swept
across my heart's desert
like a Santa Ana wind's hot caress.
Now the eastern passes
are still as virgin rocks
unto a land whispering...

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In the dark worlds rhyme
There is a sense of humor and time,
With folks of dust and spirit 
Mud and slime mingle in it.
God create the...

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THE  YEARLY  DOZEN

The slow worry of bright empty January,
Lies here under snow-ridden
Cold-fingered February on a frozen levee,
Endures embattled days with
March’s gales around the...

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NO  SURRENDER  YET



Here in the snow-ridden  
Embattled days of February

The eyes close and we think of 
Green May’s glory of grass
And butterflied...

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through a mud stained field
and thickets galore
mountaintops blue in the haze
walked through hayfield stubble
with a damp, faithful dog

I am anticipating Halloween
but thoughts dissolve quickly
in fields...

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Ribbons and bows, tied to the flames,
  dance in winter like reindeer games.
Scarlet reds and emerald greens
  paint false pravado of Christmas scenes.
Silver...

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Too much noise,beyond ,my mood,brooding
passion,dark-eyed.Summer is over
sorrow is my song,white with dew...

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With a chill still in the wind, spring arrives
Clutching her white coat that slowly melts
In Sun's warmth, coaxing blossom's birth.

Humidity heavy with the scent of...

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Cold and bother as the night 
Grow longer. 
And the day makes it shorter. 
Seasons changing. 
May feelings grow fonder 
To start to wonder. 
Like...

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It must be the hottest summer
when a bamboo weave lays adrift,
a little stiff yet the motion
of its flowing body offers a dance
to the sun and...

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