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The Pages

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"The Pages"

Missing all those years
like a page you could turn, 
a book you could throw casually aside, 
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at som...

Categories: lichened, i am, love,
Form: Free verse

Along Windy Way

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Written: November 28, 2023
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Beneath the sweltering luminescent sky.
A thunderbolt flared over the silent firefly.
Oak-smoke tone...

Categories: lichened, analogy, appreciation, betrayal, nature,
Form: Rhyme

The Town

...I can remember passing through
this town as a child,
stopping for a pie
on our way north.
Now it’s bypassed – barely more
than a clot lodged 
in the spidery veins of a map.
Most of the houses ...

Categories: lichened, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Ruin In a Modern English Translation

...THE RUIN 
an Old English poem about fate & destiny
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

well-hewn was this wall-stone, till Wyrdes wrecked it
and the Colossus sagged in...

Categories: lichened, destiny, eulogy, fate, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Swifts

...I saw the swifts again today,
High on the wing and weaving the crags to the clouds.

I watched them last from my Fall lawn,
Flickering between fantasy and truth,
And whistling their secrets to t...

Categories: lichened, animal, inspirational, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse

Season of September

...Sunlight falls in breezy dapples
across your lichened stone,
solace now I seek in chapel’s
old yard while we’re alone.

It brings my heart back, being here -
love; that I remember,
the autumn ...

Categories: lichened, appreciation, autumn, grave, grief,
Form: Lyric

Kimberly Hartzell

...(a salvation for my then junior high school youngest daughter afflicted with cognitive dissonance, who over the intervening years (mor'n half dozen Earth orbitz  ago), I dashed off this poem witnesse...

Categories: lichened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Still Point 12

...lichened bark-
living
      unnoticed...

Categories: lichened, life, tree,
Form: Imagism

Kimberly Hartzell

...(countless years hug hoe ~ a half dozen)
twas spawned a fondness for thee above named young lady,
   when first she got assigned to thine offspring
a glint of genuine virtue grew into a shimmering...

Categories: lichened, angel, appreciation, beauty, care,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Tissiack's Tears

...Tissiack’s Tears
“[F]or I was absorbed in the great Tissiack [Half Dome]-- I have gazed on Tissiack a thousand times -- in days of solemn storms, and when her form shone divine with the j...

Categories: lichened, age, nature, philosophy,
Form: Blank verse