Leafing Poems - Poems about Leafing

a white village

...Sleepy village

The white village has a small church
also white and wonderful
only open for mass, weddings 
and funerals
Post-card pretty set in a landscape
by a Van Gogh 
Poppies and olive t...

Fabulous Fun Nursery Rhyme

...Mary rushes to the market, 
To buy biscuit, bread, butter,
Finds fabulous fare for Fluffy,
Crochety cantankerous cat of her! 

Bobby loves leafing through books,
Bubbles blows bothersome brothe...

Seasonal Bliss

...The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy s...

the hill of epitaphs

...In the dirty hands of poverty,
 Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
 Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
 A sinecure of hard drugs
 To silence the lamentations of t...

The Root of It All

...Slowly ...  I approached the tree
Was down to earth and dying, 
There's something you can tell to me
Between the first and final crying 

This haven to generations of
Treehouses and rope swings...

In the Place Where Nothing Grows

...He has no poetic garden to gaze upon
no outside to the inside of this room
Soft breaths of brothers 1, 2 and 3
like the breeze on the asphalt playground
of his tiny school, one mile away.

No l...

Grandma's Recipe

...I picked up Grandma’s recipe book the other day…the one she made just for me…written in her own hand and filled with my favorite recipes.

On the first page of my cookbook…these words…always waitin...

It

...In the morning, putting on pants, its gangling legs
become entangled with mine.
It has thrown pillows on the floor again.

It has made a permanent dent in the recliner seat.
Leafing through note...

Quest

...QUEST

Leafing through the pages of my life, there are moments
I would stop to reflect on each quest I had in the past. 
Growing up in confusion, whom and which family I did
belong, my quest was...

Alone In Fall

...swing alone, heavy branch
golden tone, sneakers scranch

in falling…enhancement 
of sprawling-enchantment

leafing deep, Autumn’s rush
two foot leap, noontime hush

8/17/2021
In Essence 2
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Alabama Summer

...Cold drinks in a wet heat,
The bindings of paper a silent retreat
Beneath the cool shade of a screened porch
Escaping the fiery torch
That is the Alabama summer. 

I'll keep here between these ...

Homeless One Amongst the Spruce and Maples Trees-

... I saw the maples;
Chattering with the spruce;
Sparrows awaken;
Squirrels recused;
Running rapid; 
Are those rabbits;
Dogs chasing still the cat up the tree;
God where are all the ...

Rhapsody

...Heaven’s chill clouds hide blazing stellar light.
Winter wet with fresh white flakes falls tonight.
A morose man maunders at his baby grand, 
Keys awaiting the touch of bony hands.

A sunlit mel...

Creative Students

...Compassionate Teachers

Left hemisphere's cognitive nature of mind
emulates Right hemisphere's inductive spirit
of creation
and destruction,
regeneration
and degeneration,
and all doubly-reso...

Two Old Photos

...I was leafing through my mom’s old bible that’s sat on our shelf since she died
when two pieces of paper floated out and landed by my side

Two old photos I hadn’t seen before…photos I never knew ...

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