Long Brindled Poems

There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun, 
barred by spindle trees and the last 
of summer's brindled reeds 
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
 
Damp leaves hide...

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Invitations to the Gala
issued by a grave impala
were highly sought out missives 
by the bold and the submissive 
Those omitted uttered curses
shook angry fists or heavy purses
Had they but known that
the price of  admission
was...

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This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by 
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.

Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that 
swallows whole all of the lightest and darkest;
Peaks,...

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My Halloween Kitty (written 10/11/2020) free verse

I had a familiar named Callie
She was born on Halloween.

Feral siblings abandoned at my door.
I took the whole litter to the SPCA.
They neutered and spayed them all for me.
The...

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Komorebi 11-8-23
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Komorebi

Sunlight dashes through boughs adorned
In autumn’s scent of red orange crimson
Tossing diamonds of daybreak from their limbs
Into the borning air of dawn
To litter the forest floor in clutter of crystal auroras	
Playing hide and seek...

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Last night I had a dream, unlike the rest
then begged of Sandman, this one request,
"Please take me there again tonight
and let me feel the sweet delight,
 again, before it fades away,
...take me to where the...

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A teal twilight inks cobalt silhouettes
while shining stars unveil their twinkling lights.
And shadows slink forth, melding with the night,
as a setting sun feigns a scarlet death.

Pink clouds cluster at the horizon's edge,
absorbing shades of cerise...

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Upon a silver slate sky
of alabaster and aquamarine,
floats a formidable flotilla
of charcoal-colored clouds.
And on this mild, melancholy
mid-March day
they dawdle, dribbling drops of rain
in sporadic Spring showers.
Winter's white wonderland,
seasonally salted with brindled blotches,
magically melts away,
revealing rough-woven,...

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A sunflower sun blooms high in the sky
sowing its seeds on cerulean waves.
And seagulls assault the air with their cry
as crabs dart in and out of flooded caves.

Their orange carapaces in stark contrast
they seek algae...

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Stitched on patches and fur all gone 
We both grow old we’re getting on
I remember well that long past day
When you arrived on reindeered sleigh
The joy I felt on that Christmas morn
With shouts of glee...

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In the dark of night the whippoorwill cries 
As it flitters beneath the night’s blue sky 

Master of camouflage. Heard, seldom seen
Is searching for woodland insects to glean 

Whip-poor-will! Whip-poor-will!  The nightjar trills
As it...

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Winter arrives on a snowflake
tumbling down from the skies above.
For Earth is set for a remake;
that calls for a labor of love.

Whitewashing a littered landscape,
Autumn's dead are shrouded in white.
For streaming down like ticker tape;
snow...

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Autumn arrives astride a chilly breeze
Urged to paint the leaves before Winter's freeze.
The forest faires are all set to go
Under Luna's metallic golden glow.
Magnificent gilded moonbeams unfold,
Natural beauty that's strikingly bold.

Caramel amber, copper, and yellow,...

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Beauty takes wing above the earth
as butterflies explore rebirth.
And rides on the wings of a dove,
ambassador of peace and love.

Beauty lives in forests of green,
and in seas of aquamarine.
It flutters through ebony caves,
or frolics in...

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The amazement of making progress within the captivity of prospective has sour 
sliding of reasonless existence. Like talking in a box of profound feelings that 
alerts the man passing by with a blocked look on...

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Blue skies are cloudy, blanketed in grey,
yet on this muggy, miserable day,
I ride off to my favorite café;
where they serve venison as an entree
and a baked Alaska for dessert; yea!
As the jute box plays, I...

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Envision total tranquility,
captured as though by an artist's brush.
Attention is paid to the landscape,
lush terrain is inked, primal, and rough.
Brindled hues and a rainbow of tints
merge with waters of azure blue, where
isolation preserves creation.

Splashes of...

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