Early Spring
...First rose blossom of the season
Spring most definitely here for a reason
Woods now display varied green shades
Tree blossoms and tassels fade
Inclement weather on a mass fast marc...
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Categories:
larch, nature,
Form: Couplet
Opening My Window To the Cool Breeze of March
...My long sleep wasn't disturbed by a Mallard,
no visions of wars but of absolute serenity...
giving this body a vital boost of energy;
flowing was the blood, sound was the mind!
The green-winged...
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Categories:
larch, absence, conflict, emotions, fate,
Form: Rhyme
The Wee Folk of Bensham Bog
...I was once told a story, of the wee folk of Bensham Bog; they live in carved mushroom houses that are shaped like bullfrogs and they ensure the survival of creatures there. They travel in petrifie...
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Categories:
larch, animal, children, fantasy, myth,
Form: Haibun
For the Love of Trees
...I'm waiting for the stately beech,
the giant elm, the maple, each
asleep and dreaming of the dawn
of gentle spring to rain upon
their bony branches, reaching, bare,
to catch the warming sunshine...
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Categories:
larch, tree,
Form: Rhyme
The Orchestra
...The Orchestra
Best heard alone in the silence
of blackness pre-dawn.
The hall, redolent of memories,
lighted by a single bulb-
log walls fashioned from old larch;
a metal roof above.
The...
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Categories:
larch, night, rain,
Form: Free verse
The Ides of March
...Saint Patrick feared the Ides of March
So Jesus filled his robes with starch
Saint Patrick said,
"I must be dead!
This coffin feels like sold larch!"...
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Categories:
larch, march,
Form: Limerick
Autumn As Pictures, Sounds and Fragrance
...Autumn As Pictures, Sounds and Fragrance
Scenery either seen before,
Or only imagined in your mind,
Or felt in your heart,
Or heard without sound.
Sound and sight,
Aroma and feel,
All ca...
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Categories:
larch, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Yosemite's Ephemeral Autumn Falls
...Yosemite’s Ephemeral Autumn Falls
Bald giants of swift water smoothed pale granite
Mark deep clefts for tumbling summer snowmelt
Rush released from frozen streams once frostbit
Silver swells - ...
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Categories:
larch, autumn, water, , western,
Form: Quintain (English)
My Childhood Garden
...It’s my cardinal choice to sit in the porch
Recalling indelible boyhood memories
Playing hide and seek with my best buddies
Gazing at the green cover and trees of larch.
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Categories:
larch, childhood, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Return
...Return
Mountains so close they are
Neighbors,
Holding in the bowl of sky,
Keeping at bay the rising sun
Until late in the October
Of falling leaves
And golden larch spires.
Holding that s...
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Categories:
larch, nature,
Form: Free verse
Come It Will
...Mist sweeps the garden
Settles like Saharan dust
Gold round the lake's edge....
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Categories:
larch, autumn, color,
Form: Haiku
I Want To Wander
...I was driving down a dirt road
in New York’s backcountry, upstate,
when I came upon a dead-end
near a small dairy farm, sedate.
The farmer must have though me strange,
and inquired if I was lost...
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Categories:
larch, adventure, desire, how i
Form: Rhyme
M'Aidez
...Though some beware the Ides of March
My mum adds some extra starch
My shirt is like steel
My trousers won't kneel
With the zip as stuck as a larch....
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Categories:
larch, funny,
Form: Limerick
Ode To My Love Jesus Christ--
...Ode to My Love Jesus Christ--
My love Jesus, you inspire me to write.
I love the way you look, I pray humble,
Invading my mind day and through the night,
Always dreaming about the deep cimbal...
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Categories:
larch, appreciation, blessing, devotion, i
Form: Sonnet
Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
...I.
Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
Unisex Trees, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding God's earth
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Categories:
larch, adventure, beauty, earth, earth
Form: Ode
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