Lichen Poems - Poems about Lichen

...I. The Pastor’s Hand At dawn’s brittle cusp— he climbs, each step a nail in time’s coffin breath ragged a Psalm torn mid-hymn. The rope tastes of incense and myrrh— Li......

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...Death bids me welcome Into his tended garden Where quiet plots of bramble clots House names now long forgotten. Engravings faded, darkened serifs Tower over brighter plaques Sooted over gen......

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...after 'Berck-Plage' by Sylvia Plath (1) A sheet of glass, this expanse of water. How its tranquillity mocks my unrest. Bloated beachballs and balloons travel the park and......

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...lichen coated trunk deliberately decays ~ breeds ground for new life......

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...up a steep and gritty track reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap their marshy......

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... SEA WANTS ME Waves are here for the winners spirals floating in turquoise dance ululating undulating blue bright sight a point with paddle board to soar sanguine Seas I know not w......

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...Brackish lichen forms a raft upon the pond, a low haze floats like a moored airship. Small frogs chirrup sotto-voce as if they were dreaming sparrows. Water birds dabble in their sleep. Soon ......

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... Hunger for perfectly placed punga path Snakes surely slowly..garlanded scarf Turns & rakes fern festooned forest floor Sun dappled glade, bathed and swathed Glorious green sheens in ......

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...Laboured breaths with each strenuous uphill step, taking in the ancient spirits from an ancient world when the earth was venerated. Every stride taken prompts visions of the Chaquis who journi......

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... QUESTLINE what song do the old never forget YESTERDAY OPPOSITES in the midst of death - lichen comes to life TABB out of the picture - blanked ......

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...I have heard eternal fires burn With notes of lessons yet to learn, And bathed in Basho’s lyric streams Of Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring I have climbed the lichen cliffs unseen And heard tha......

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...In Spring In spring water troughs fart all the musical notes, butterflies go to Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit bulldogs, placemats collect bits of string to make balls, lich......

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...A fragment of matted stone breaks surface, it is already colonized by moss and fungi factories. Eventually all will churn green spawns to green lawns, not yet of course, ‘yet’ has t......

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..."My Hairy Wild Petunia" Likened To lichen Sphagnum Mostly moss Made moist Dew do me Kiss my Lab ia Good Bi......

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...I forgive the stars sleeping in nothingness, too afraid to embrace eclipsed spheres….. In the midst of sweltering gloaming, I ascend, obscured and tarnished, like......

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