Long Dapples Poems

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This Early Morning

This morning, 
the sun-rise dapples bright yellow hues 
onto the dark green leaves, 

creating a lemon-lime splash.
The trees are still after a brief, breezy, sober night. The cool air chills the skin. 

This morning 
the birds are unseen, though their greetings, their songs, delight.

The trees within which they twill
reach for the sky, for each other..

they are of a lavish Summer flush;
they feel honored to be so adorned 
by the Sun, 

to wear such a golden effulgence.
Though they remain watchful, on guard.

This morning, 
a shy cricket or two meekly chants.

This morning, 
the windows of the apartments quietly refract the sunlight; their egg-shell-white blinds sleep.

This morning 
is of a painting, oils of mellifluous sky colors.


Premium Member Watching the Wake

Watching the Wake

The river serenity incarnate.
Water a liquid mirror holding sky, trees
Light falling, late summer eve perfection.

We smoothly glide along in the small boat
With old friends,
Saying nothing.

Looking behind us all the way
For hours, fascinated
I study how our wake unfolds behind us
From tossing turbulence
To a small and perfect wave behind that,
Curling at the ends just so,
Light falling into those curls 
As though it were obsidian being shaved, 
Short straight dapples across its ever forming edge
Then behind that
A nearly flat wider wave
Fans out to vanish into the river.

There's a lot of great art being made by this,
I think
So simple
So beautiful
Eternal, transient.
So it goes with us,
I feel
Our lives are our constant art,
Unfolding without plan.

Premium Member Sierra Club

Of spires of timbers tall,
mountains in the beauty of ancient.
The eagle’s flight takes my earthly breath,
as Native American spirit tales whisper
in the cool misty valley.
Lakes blue mirror the changing clouds,
sunlight dapples gold in the pine straw,
the deer with their grace.

I see my children the howling wolves,
their gray shadows loping through the
forest with their young.
Lumbering grizzlies dine on berries,
their cubs curious climbing a small
tree.
A hum of honeybees bobbing on
blooms.

Sierra Club is made up of so many
environmentalists to heal the
hurting earth.
Another generation joins in the cause
of her survival and a love for her.
The afternoon becomes a purple and
pink twilight,
crickets begin a starry song rising so
eloquent,
as the bats welcome night’s hunting,
with a whoosh of myriads of wings.
Thank you, Sierra Club,
this senior is proud to be a member. ~

Seasons

Fresh spots of violet creak through the sky
Silently, violently assaulting the eye
Lavenders blush in the sweetest of hue
Spring has arrived with the calmness of blue

Soft summer rain dapples the floor
Raindrops like diamonds on the old barnyard door
The orange of sunset, as the dragonflies glow
And the mesmerised sounds, as the young cattle low

Warm autumn apples fall from the bough
To be sprinkled with honey for the fattening sow
Pumpkins erupt in shimmering gold
As the sheep return leisurely to the warmth of the fold

Crisp winter cold is dark and succinct
Foreboding clouds all around, as the sun is extinct
The jingle of sleigh bells can be heard up ahead 
As the enveloping stillness leads you to bed
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I Rule Without a Crown

This is the landscape I rule without a crown.
A yard beneath a canopy of mango leaves
where afternoon sun lingers
 beneath the boughs, exposing where doves
 choose to roost overnight.
 
This is my garden - morning light
gleams over an aqua pool,
refracts, as a breeze  sends
dapples over a long row of palms.

I was the one to dictate the thick
summer planting of tall bamboo
persuaded by added privacy
on the dividing fence, 

This is  my world and I am
the impossible one who will decree
what is painted, what remains unpainted, 
where the birdbath will sit,
or, what species to plant.

I rule this landscape that the sky
changes each moment,

but not the phrases of birdsong 
that slip from every branch
or each  petal that unfolds,
 unbidden.

Suzanne Delaney


Premium Member His Amber Pendant

Dawn's light roused me from morning mist
Upon my breast, his amber pendant lies
Gently awakened when warmly kissed
as sunlight dapples across my sleepy eyes

Upon my breast, an amber pendant lies
I stand at my window in a whisp of a gown
as sunlight dapples across my sleepy eyes
I weep in fear that my heart may drown

I stand at my window in a whisp of a gown
feeling the sun's comfort in a loving embrace
I weep in fear that my heart may drown
Tears brush my cheeks as he touched my face

Feeling the sun's comfort in a loving embrace
Gently awakened when warmly kissed
Tears brush my cheeks as he touched my face
Dawn's light roused me from morning mist


^__________May 23rd, 2017___________^
Contest: Form P, sponsored by Broken Wings
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pantoum

Premium Member Seems Like Yesterday Mystic

I step beyond my front door, shoes brushing dew
And the air is crisp, familiar-something old, something new.
The sky unfolds in pale gold, the sparrows sing the same tune,
And I swear, I've wandered here before, beneath the waking moon.
Sunlight dapples over lawns just as it always does,
Neighbors wave, dogs bark, the world's gentle hum abuzz.
Every scent, each rustle, is a whisper from the past:
The rustling trees greet me-echoes that forever last.
My feet trace the sidewalk cracks, memory's soft parade,
I know the way the breeze feels, the shifting light and shade.
Deja vu in every heartbeat, in every glance I steal-
It seems, like yesterday, this day was wholly real.
Yet, as I wander outward, with wonder and with grace,
I find new meaning hidden in every time-worn place.
Perhaps I've lived this day before, or dreamed it in the night,
But outside, in the morning sun, the world feels just as right.

Premium Member Nature

World stills of nature's hospitality
showing modesty and humility.
Sunlight dapples the hill's locality
winking through pines peace and tranquility.

A living, breathing, viability
cascading aquatic agility,
fluttering independent entity,
shine purely within the vicinity.

Dark trees, ferns, await dawn's stability
alive in amazing facility.
Birds sing providing audibility.

Brilliance with mental capability,
My mind's eye exceeds my ability
course the utmost responsibility
becoming a part of me willingly.

Warm seasons ebbing a reality,
winter will follow in servility.



5/27/2018
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Valentine Haiku

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a day’s diary
   turns to unwritten pages….
       a new sun rises

from smoldering dark,
   a spark ignites heart of dawn…
       flames kindle the hills    
      
darkness falls away
  like the velvet rose petals....
      a gold ring of sun

soft slippered skies watch 
    while drowsy earth awakens….
        garlands of pink clouds

sun kisses the frost
     with glittery lace designs…
         dapples of white glass
        
begging attention,
     the garden bursts into bloom…
        valentine bouquet

all the red roses
   stand tall with unabashed pride…
      birds sing from the heart





P.S.  Each morning sunrise is a valentine's gift. :)

For P.D.'s Contest: Valentine Haiku
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Germination

Ah, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom 
of  spring to summer  fall to winter  
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at once both self-reliant and reliant

my soul to embryo  seed to seedling

the mettle it takes for the genesis;  
for my poppy pod to wake and break
a tiny speck of matter  a fleck of duality unleashed
I surrender my dormancy to the earth -
roots reach deep like pale squiggly fingers
..for my kernel was laid to rest to bustle to life..
while my headstrong head pushes up through the soil 
I come to be.. like a new idea taking shape 
a physical being grounded
while seeking the realm of the Sun
the source of spirit as essential 
as the dark womb from which I emerge
with a heart budding with the universe from nothing 

I sprout as a sprig from a rounded grain
conceived in a gold-dusted flurry of furry buzz..
a bumblebee's dalliance with the center of a whorl
a mote of pollen so mite-like  -- but 
        m i g h t y 
in   purpose   potential   and   power  
woven together in the art of creation

wind-driven autumn rains and sips of melted snow 
..mother’s milk during the passage of time..
sweetly feeds the gentle needs for my tender birth
daystar’s dabble-dance with shadows 
charm the chill from the cradle of the garden floor -
warm ginger dapples flit to find me between
canopy gaps in swish and sway..
mini-spots mirroring the disk of the Sun reminds me;
the image of what I’ll become
when my solar heart shines in a petal-chalice of flame..
rapture stirs the layers of humus
penetrating my essence with a ripening
stoking my fortitude to fulfill my destiny  
to break free of that which holds me down 
and reach ever higher inspired by a promise;
the golden circle of solace.. the bull's-eye in the sky 
whose glow does kiss and grow my soul -
my inner space of bright sure to blaze 
in a blossom cup’s confinement 

my soul to embryo  seed to seedling

sown to assure my flowering  
my earthy ascension fulfills Nature’s cycle of nativity;
above the loam  I rise  to unfurl
and lift my airy leaves’ uncurl up high 
in praise of the light 
as the end of a gray season curves 
into the festive yellow equinox of resurgence

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