Long Cattail Poems

Twilight, the frolicking hour of the nocturnal animals.
A curtain of gray melancholy slowly shuts out the sun.
There are two gentle remembering streaks across the sky,
Then all is dark.  The master artist knew what He...

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I walk an already trodden path...
Uncertain, of future lives that lie ahead

But, in faith I close these earthly Ojibwa eyes
In trill, thus, I hear the old ways in your presence amidst Chinook winds
As harmonic they...

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Dusk brings a primal knowing into my soul, I can smell the nearness of the watching ones. Animal is here, I have no idea if it be bear, panther, deer, quail or mouse, but I...

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Once in time ,a cargo plane was flying 
above in the azure blue.
You see the plane was carrying seeds for planting,
or every size ,sort and hue.
When at once,the winds grew rough,
and the sky turned an...

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On the  gurgling  remains of Winter 
as she seeps back into the earth  
on a path around a lake 
flanked by the casualties of winter's breath
cattails...
brown and bent with broken heads
backs turned...

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Pale and fair, she will sit awhile 
She's a fragile lily, but not a child
who climbs across the wooden stile
to seek her private solitude

The willow pond, is her second home
She'll while away these lonely hours
with...

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Through the woods I carefully tread
Darkness surrounds and fills with dread
Silent clouds obscure the moon
Briefly break and lift the gloom

A clearing darkness once concealed
Parting clouds have now revealed
As I draw ever slowly near
The scene, obscured,...

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The sweet flag and cattail murmur gently by a lagoon
In the distance there is red visage of harvest moon
The starship rises from the lagoon
Sound is not typical of engine rather it’s an eerie tune

The starship...

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While strolling on this summer morn so fair
      with warming sun rays soft upon my cheeks
   and gentle breezes blowing through my hair,				     ...

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or

The Value of Romanticism

"Suspicious of Reason, romanticists prefer leaps of faith
-- in addition to leaps off cliffs,
aside from bridges."
-- in the soup
the brain of Reason 
sole 
not stuck in muck

*   *  ...

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I live in this house next to the crick
that I built up on some stilts
and my hounds sleep up under it
When it gets so hot you wilts
Yeah they sleep all day under the porch
And we...

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                         I like to walk the forest,
    ...

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My lotus flower, adrift on the water bed,
Your petals top the pond,
Lilies, Irises, Hyacinths.
The sun reminisces,
And the moon grieves,
For in the dark of night,
It hides your leaves.

I weed your sodden garden,
Cattail, Waterthymes, Reeds.
My lotus you're...

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Saw it in your eyes, and your pale façade, 
the laughter that turned to silence
still left you smiling. 

As I listen, you speak my name..
humanity turned back hands, 
on a broken clock.
Yet, knew you'd be...

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As a warm summer breeze
magically floats atop waves
a child's laugh can be heard
clearly a short distance away.

With eyes like almonds
glowing bright as a moon
a boy is dotted with sand
when he hears a song from a...

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Thoughts of you 

Shades of maple, shades of elm,
along a winding wishing stream
Of lily pad and cattail smiles
a’ glistening in rippled gleam

So soft the grass upon the hill,
where bluebirds sing their melodies
Harmonically with skies of...

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This young pawn was homeless and exhausted.
Sleeping in an overgrown city lot.
A flat piece of cardboard for a bed.
Cattail and wildflower walls.
A ceiling of blueish gray.
Slow roasting over a fiery dream.
This Pawn turned into a...

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Sitting beside the grumbling creek in the quiet
Reverberations of humble peace create a riot
Whirling across the smooth stones in gentle whispers
In white rapids that appease me with their whimpers

Sticking my bare feet into the rumble...

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As life's energy swirls all around,
  Peace settles in my breast,
Sitting quiet and still,
  as turtles splash in and out of the water
    nearby,
And a playful otter giggles,
  waiting...

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Soulmate oak trees with curly branches
grew next to each other, in the Kentucky meadow.
Communicating through squirrel squeaks
Bird beeps, and the whistle of the wind
through their well-formed branches.
They uplifted each other
enjoying their golden moments
as well as...

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She moved like no other two-legged creature.
The wolves kept their howls on reserve, watching.
She was stealthy, determined, made her way quickly.
Reeds and grasses whispered her name in low breaths.

It is the Goddess Diana, a cattail...

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Swans........................
.play across the cattail towns,

laden down with white,

friendly fawns adept at dancing 

shallow stones...................

and on.........

into the climbing courtyard,

  Whisper where.......

and go there.......

not too far or near,

for fear the bells

upon your ankles

speak the truth too...

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Where mountains fade to valley shade
And trees give way to meadow's blade
Cottony cattail, wild lilies teem
Obscuring an enchanted stream

Tis there amongst the grassland rue
This tiny fairy village grew
I will not say just where they stay
And...

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Delicate Luna moth in pale dress of lovely green,
With giant sunshine colored painted orbs rarely seen,
Fairy-like magic, paving the way for butterflies.
Reigning queen of the cattail marsh, in every brownie’s eyes.

Passing nature’s crown and scepter...

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Ripples flow across the lake
A profusion of serpents swimming
Wriggling from shore to shore

Skimming stone takes four hops
causing rings to widen
Circles created by the hand of man
kerplunk, splish and splash 

Dragonfly perched on a cattail
flitting its...

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