Nature's Rhythm: I Listen and Connect
...In an island amidst the seamless seas,
lost in the warmth of a dream-like enchanting moment,
I sense a smooth placid stillness and repose.
As the golden ball ascends,
light bids adieu to the ...
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Categories:
kingfishers, nature,
Form: Free verse
Shared Torch Lake
...I rock in this outdoor cheap chair
Its cushion foam like ice cream
Half-eaten by the winter mice in storage
I don’t mind
Don’t need a full seat to see before me
The drop off on Torch Lake
I...
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Categories:
kingfishers, earth, father, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Blossoms
...When the season of splendor sprinkles
the scent of sprightliness,
when the koels and kingfishers sing hymns of hope
and merrily waltz their wings of chartreuse dreams, and
when from her day dre...
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Categories:
kingfishers, hope, muse, spring,
Form: Free verse
Moorhen
...A good friend once told me that kingfishers know the secrets of the universe
But dear friend, what about this moorhen on the rivers verge?
And as I sit and wonder what my moorhen thinks
Around ...
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Categories:
kingfishers, adventure, animal, appreciation, bible,
Form: Rhyme
What Fascinates Me
... More than anything Nature fascinates me
Men living in close proximity to nature, I love to see
So I ramble into the city’s far outskirts
Watching ordinary people in commonplace pursui...
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Categories:
kingfishers, beauty, environment, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Nature Walk
...As one saunters by the bubbling brook
fixated on intricate crannies and nooks
quaint voices encircle, relaying rhyme
in a plethora of rhythms, perfectly timed
Adonis blue butterflies f...
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Categories:
kingfishers, animal, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
As the Scenes Change
...If I can not hold the bird
It's prudent to let it accompany the kite
When the hues take a distant flight
Won't it be a fun with black and white
Desires to become, we do have a lot of
Dense ...
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Categories:
kingfishers, emotions, image,
Form: Rhyme
Towards the Waterfall
...She wound her way as was her wont,
Along the treacherous path
Adorned by rock, and roots and ferns,
Elated as if there was a fire dance in the breeze,
Towards the lake and the waterfall.
So...
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Categories:
kingfishers, love, water,
Form: Free verse
Simple Scribbles and Rambling Lines
...I write upon mountains from whence I view the sea
soothed by the rhythmic motion of the tide
my muse goes into overdrive
Soon my pretty notebook
is bursting with simple scribbles and ...
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Categories:
kingfishers, nature, sea, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Seashore - a Tautogram
...Annabelle Albatross’s amazing aquatics astound audiences at Atlantic airshows.
Bill Beaver’s barrel-rolling barely bumps bobbing buoys.
Crustaceans crowd cramped coves. Charlie Crab cowers, ca...
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Categories:
kingfishers, animal, cute, sea,
Form: Tautogram
The Penelope Squad
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“The Penelope Squad”
A line of bluebirds
tittering on a line
swaying on the winds
like comedian pageboys
having a good time
poop in the pe...
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Categories:
kingfishers, giggle, humor, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Suddenly Swans
...A quiescent misty lake in center of hillock,
surrounded in soundless old oak trees.
Sheen of mercury looks ethereal in sunbeam,
blue headed kingfishers, in sly glances skim.
silvery air sparkli...
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Categories:
kingfishers, beauty, death,
Form: Free verse
A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime
...wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid t...
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Categories:
kingfishers, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
A Sestina - My Secret River
... MY SECRET RIVER
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Its source some distance from its end, highlands.
A little trickle meanders a mile.
Pure, full of many forms of life, no fish!
Now babbles over rocky ground...
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Categories:
kingfishers, nature, rap, river,
Form: Sestina
Great Horned Owls
...Many many moons ago
leaving the porch
of a south-facing canyon,
I hiked to a place
where the foothills
narrowed,
Where the asphalt road
ran astride the reservoir lake
into which kingfisher...
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Categories:
kingfishers, marriage,
Form: Free verse
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