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Knotholes Poems

I Am the Autumn Witch

...She entered the forest as the leaves turned golden and brown.
The red and yellow ones swiftly laid their short lives on the ground.
Is this the Autumn Witch? The knotholes asked the bark of their t...

Categories: knotholes, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

All's Well At Sundown

...The sun is richly reddening, upon the lavender skies,
And shadows are deepening, readying night's disguise.
The dinner bell is ringing, calling for me to come in,
Like the end of a play, as tossin...

Categories: knotholes, bird, flower, nature, red,
Form: Rhyme

Bah I Say Not Meaning It

...Tree huggers bah I say,
not meaning it.
Asking forgiveness from the oak I hug daily.
But this is the Midwest 
Where people make fun of nature lovers
Calling them fruits and nuts

Give me fruit...

Categories: knotholes, how i feel, joy,
Form: Prose

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Finding Marbles

...Strewn to the floor he collected his marbles and memories

Had played for hours as a child with his friends in the flat

Passed innumerable hours never bored always enthralled

Abraded by wear ...

Categories: knotholes, memory,
Form: Free verse

Pot Bellied Sage

...A Shadorma

Pot-bellied, 
wizened old oak sage;
resting in
silent woods.
Each swollen arthritic joint
tells a magic tale.

Within dark
knotholes of blackness,
lie secrets;
song...

Categories: knotholes, fairy, fantasy, fun, poems,
Form: Shadorma

What To Photograph First

...What to photograph first?
My yard is a haven for every color of flower.
There are mushrooms, and worn out stumps, and renegade violets.
There is Queen Anne’s lace, and prairie golden rod, and hone...

Categories: knotholes, garden,
Form: Free verse

Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets

...#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wound...

Categories: knotholes, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets