Long Dapples Poems

Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman
the original wild flower!
I go where I want to go
I grow where I want to grow —
don't matter if   y o u   say no

dandelion wine...

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April Brooks was four years old, prattling a blue streak, like comets;
Or backwards walking time, seizing swiftly, days of golden promise.

April lived with parents and older sister, in the sunshine of a valley;
And petals wore...

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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...

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I start my afternoon hike up a mountain trail.
October’s sunlight, the vestige of Indian Summer,
dapples my exposed skin with welcomed warmth.
Sun’s rays are gilded tendrils cutting through pines
whose needles’ sweet scent
    ...

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      Clover superlative lovers, sprung via same stem
      Umbrella immunity protects sprites supple
      Filter purity lacy leaf shade kindly dapples...

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sometimes the snow falls in sheets of white, 
a blanket of excited kisses, playful - 
fleeting
dampening your thoughts
racing your heart

and sometimes, the snow
falling in sheets of white
brings waves of brittle stings, sharp reminders
memories in the...

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The forest moves with its mystic mood,

   enchanted for the creaking tune

   of trunks and boughs in wind,

   sing some birds in spring

   wild with a learned...

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I see a pattern Everywhere:
Circles and globes (three dimensional circles);
Shiny rings of fire.

Countless manifestations of this same shape.
Star-spangled galaxies wheeling through the sky:
That half-globe dome.
Earth, in circular orbit (more or less) around the Sun,
Escorted by...

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Cirque Calder Family

Lonely this
My restless paint blobs
Absorbing precious air
Risking dehydration
Moisture deprived patience
Waiting atop my platform
Resting precariously upon cut wire
And tapered metal sheets
Awaiting tomorrow's work load

Master catnaps
Sprawled beside more wire and metal sheets
While real cat
Possesses Master's...

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The leaves of the fern
Begin the rhythm of the forest.
The music of the woodland floor
Pulsates to the rise of the sun.

The morning...mists dissipate in silent beats
Playing to every lead from the composer above.
Dapples of light...

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Along the dampened and rutted way
The dew lay thick upon the clay
As sunshine broke the morning mist
The leaves still damp received God's kiss

A kaleidoscope of color
Greeted my every twist and turn
From the mighty towering oak
To...

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What a cameo in the hot harmattan eve !
Sweet soursop scents marinated with the haze 
And all the other ones impasse in my qui vive .

Words became satisfying minting juice ,
Black with currents ,mingled bittersweet...

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Gliding through the night's darkest heart.
Racing at the edge of our understanding..
Real images die in fading shafts 
of an on coming headlight.
Rushing headlong into Oblivion
Misty spirit's cling to every lamppost.
Reality is undefined...
Fading infinity.
Surreal landscape of...

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Steel Gray skies with threatening rain and restless wind
My breath gathers as mist on the inside of the window pane
...as I watched for the school bus

A slender birch tree with spiral scars 
of flayed bark...

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I know I must cover half the land
in my reseda green blades.
I know I came first, to enrich the earth's dry sands,
and to prepare for the beginnings of man.
I watched the trees grow giant, all...

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Cosy as the warmest summer’s breeze,

Reclining poet there beneath the tree’s,

Yellow sunshine dapples ‘ore the leaves,

A picnic basket too, can you believe!

 

Daffodils abound along the stream,

And lazy clouds drift by as in a dream,

Little...

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Sweet dreams flap the wings on the vast sky
Petals of the soft lips compose the whisper
Rising rainbow hails the smiling green heart 
Elopements of the feelings build the bridge
Arrow of Cupid plucks the honeycomb duly
Dahlia...

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Listen to the trees laughing in delight
as brisk breezes tickle their leaves at night.
And watch fireflies signaling love with light
that they flicker on and off in full flight,
creating a somewhat surreal sight.

As twilight tints alabaster...

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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 brings a tender tear
season of September.

Neath supple...

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Beneath the city's concrete canopy,
Sunlight filters through the urban sprawl.
A dance of shadows on an asphalt stage,
Nature latent in the midst of it all.

Pillars of industry made of glass and steel,
Create an artificial forest, towering...

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As warm as sunshine and as cold as ice,
Nature's the mother for whom the birds sing.

Strolling through the woods, I embrace Autumn's
tactile and ethereal sensations.
From a crackling carpet of fallen leaves
to the smell of rotting...

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Austere magic and verdant odor 
in sombre shades of thick forest,
nature breathing a breeze of life
among lofty trees and tall grasses.
wilful beneath a boundless blue sky,
sunlight dapples an emerald canvas.

Lilac bushes soothe alder woods 
wildflowers...

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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...

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I can hear the horses snorting, outside my bedroom window,
Even though it comes, from so many years ago;

Cotton from the cottonwoods flying through the air,
Making whitened dapples on my palomino mare;

The hounds are all out...

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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...

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