Boy and Barn
...Bitty birds scuffle and flounce
under the roofed-in.
Barn dusted, rafters crust and whiffle.
Snuffle go the whiskered,
the mousy muzzle's
all along the bent beam wood.
A pepper powdering
in th...
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Categories:
larked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Way Back When I Was Ten
...A canopy of innocence, invisible to me
hung over playful joy shielding all that would come to be.
The world was mud and grass and trees, oh, puddles,swings and bikes
shrieking, shouting, rampant r...
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Categories:
larked, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Another One
...all gazing there up,
't was time to drop.
the cloud shift'd beautifully.
excit'd by the show,
our boys did ignore
the lazy lark wittingly.
while larks larked festive,
Ben waxed real sportive...
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Categories:
larked, addiction, adventure, eve, goodbye,
Form: Verse
The Sky Larked Moon
...Blue black was the night
a cat clawed moon fright
larked against the sullen sky
no blow to bemoan
no flight to atone
and so no stars were on high.
The air leaden, gray,
weak of shadow's play
feline ...
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Categories:
larked, moon,
Form: Verse
The Dragon's Pool Meeting
...I see you’ve larked with fairy friends,
On bough, in fields, near brooks -
Pebbles skim the water’s edge;
Jump skip, jump skip, hop - over brook…
‘Which side is greener?’ Asked the Dragon mare...
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Categories:
larked, allegory, fantasy, parody, fairy,
Form: Quintain (English)