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Lichens Poems - Poems about Lichens

Flower Chide VI, Stemrise
...Toward Scent fold’s vale they cleaved the green, Where wind runs thick with things unseen. “Is it justice you seek or just her place?” Lotus said, his voice low, draped in grace. The blossoms pau......

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Categories: lichens, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Flower Chide VIII, Listening Leaf
...Beneath the Nefaryes timeless, tangled roots. where dreamscents rot and anger hoots, Pokenose stirs with a spore-slick grin not to charm, but to drag you in. "You reek of want without refrain, ......

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Categories: lichens, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



Lost in woods
...Incessant drizzle soak pith of each and every dense tree in evergreen forest where moss, algae, lichens paints lush hues of green, blue and rich brown While wet birds forget to sing glistenin......

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Categories: lichens, nature,
Form: Free verse
Learn Your Place In Society
...Prosperity proved no defense against the years or changing fates writ in the stars - nor masters of arms foresaw the weapons that unseated their lineages, leaving only ghostly bones where legions ral......

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Categories: lichens, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TIEN FORM SYLLABLE without title
... in the midst of death lichens come to life My secnd alternate Tien form of ten syllable, no title Tien is inspired by Chidiock Tichborne first line of his monosyllabic 'Prime of Youth'......

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Categories: lichens, nature,
Form: Monoku



More Than Ink
... I Adamantly Refuse to Care or Show Concern, After All I Served Sincerely and Genuinely, Now I Sever Hoaxed Mundane Emotions that No Longer Appeal to My Growth Flippantly Burning Icy Bridges T......

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Categories: lichens, betrayal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams V
...Epigrams V Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry? —Michael R. Burch Teach me to love: to fly beyond sterile Mars to percolating Venus. —Mic......

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Categories: lichens, irony, jealousy, judgement, life,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member On a Decaying Log
...in the midst of death- lichens come to life......

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Categories: lichens, nature,
Form: Monoku
As Fames Are Found To Fade
...I Proudest of graves as get grey mass of moss, Where goats greedily browse young sprouts still green, The graves as get grey that had grandeur seen, Tallest of fames fade fainter with dull glo......

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Categories: lichens, fate, grave,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Monikuhikuquatsequ
...in the midst of death- lichens come to life (moniku) this summer morning- azalea perfume hints & yellows the lawn (hiku) with buzzard on high......

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Categories: lichens, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member Yggdrasil Salutes the Sun
...She raises her façade to greet the dawning sun; Yggdrasil a goddess, the empyreal one. Tree of life, tree of hope, in sunlight’s kiss; nurturer of the winged, in ethereal bliss. She births h......

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Categories: lichens, appreciation, mythology, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Epigrams Vii
...Epigrams VII A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? —Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch The Whole of Wit by Michael R. Burch fo......

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Categories: lichens, animal, growth, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Itinere
...when i arrived on earth I must have seen the rain through the window it was saturday in the hospital room busy women in white fluttering snowflakes in my made-up memory giving injections meas......

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Categories: lichens, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magical Morning
...A mossy pebbled path I took, I came upon a babbling brook; Meandering around the bend, I could not see w......

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Categories: lichens, imagery, magic, morning, myth,
Form: Lay
Chinese Translations Iii
...Chinese Translations III Quiet Night Thoughts by Li Bai aka Li Po translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Moonlight illuminates my bed as frost brightens the ground. Lifting my eyes,......

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Categories: lichens, animal, loneliness, lonely, mountains,
Form: Free verse

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