Long Dryads Poems

Timmy Tom Tuck was a young fellow with charm
who one summer stayed at his grandfather's farm.
He loved to eat ice cream and Grandma's baked goods
but his favorite thing was to play in the woods

He so...

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I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream
As axe bit into woody flesh
The sap oozed out as scented cream
My veins stood out in rictal mesh

My wits all scrambled left me quick
My hands and face were full a-sweat
My...

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Under the endless sky, where the wind whispers ancestral secrets,  
Engines spin, iron butterflies in their primal dance,  
The muted thunder of wheels, an echo of the earth's hearts beating in unison, ...

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Frigid metals twist like 
Banshees in shriek,
Making all who hear it fear it's threatening speech.
Cognitive cogs, turning out torture-
instigating further madness noir.
Pale green and gold in it's likeness.
Promulgated sickness.
Rusted iron dust to waft in the...

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"Here Runneth the Path of Fairy Feet"
by Rachel Heffington

Where childhood fancy and twilight meet
Here runneth the path of fairy-feet;
On shadowed road and misty bend
Here coldsome facts of "real life" end,
And the simplest thing on earth...

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Written: January 23, 2024
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Their melodious humming drifts
through the fragrant night air
carrying a sense of tranquility
In this enchanting universe
where dreams come true
A...

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In a late night, when stars are born in the mirror of the lake,
And the moon dances on the waters, silent and melancholic,
My thoughts unravel and reassemble,
In an unceasing flow of consciousness, like an endless...

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Floating
by Michael R. Burch
 
Memories flood the sand’s unfolding scroll;
they pour in with the long, cursive tides of night.
 
Memories of revenant blue eyes and wild lips
moist and frantic against my own.
 
Memories of ghostly...

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Beltane’s Night
On the eve of Beltane
The Earth’s call rang across hill and heather, towards ford and cliff
From tree to river the door calls, spirits of earth so fair,
Heard by elf and pixie, awakening the dryads...

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Perched astride his most gallant metal steed,
the young lad dreamed of horses, knights and speed.
The golden moon blessed him with gentle rays,
heart softened by the burdens he would face.

A calm moonlit lake revealed to his...

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Written: January 12, 2024
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Their buzzing goes unabated
the cool air scent of lavender
in...

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Shadows of the Valley
creatures of the dark pitted dome
scantily clad dryads' hissing drones they rally
without souls—pod like, they roam
throughout forests assiduously marled
awoken from the darkest depth
twigs and branches splayed and snarled
shadows of the valley doyennes...

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All I've seen is a black star in the night sky,
We fell asleep after our cross-country awry.
In my dream, I saw weak, cynical starlight,
Subtle as a map packed toward the plight. 

City by the Bay...

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Her broken voice
Gathered the strength
To sing again, but tonight the
Rough winds restrict her effort.
Nor she could fly away to a faraway
Land, for her wings are severed too.
Bruised and defeated she lies perched
In the low branch...

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Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful arrays of dryads
azure and amethyst gossamer haze,
sleek, silken strikes gist...

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I walked in the woods today
Wandered through the land of the dryads,
Till I stopped by an elderly tree-
With two names in a heart on her cheek.
Two names carved side by side,
One boy and one girl
A...

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I have a task for you,
If you except there will no Turing back,
You must cut my heart my out,
Please hasten time is not on our side, pain is only in the mind, 
Once my heart...

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                        Leaves of Lilith, fall like butterflies 
    ...

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Into the woods, into the Dryad's lair,
here enters a maiden so fair! 
Her cheeks rosy - deep blue are her eyes -
looking excited, for what? Yonder it lies. 

Merry chatter of birds, in her ears...

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Kaleidoscope of Life. 
And behind the forest sings that nothing is the way you think 
and try as you might make love to one you do not love gives
a feeling of lost time, of a...

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Fairy kings, dryads
 in the labyrinths of nightfall
fill children’s heads with dread.
They walk hushed, their pockets full of bread

Bewitched these children bring
elusive, unthinkable thoughts,
of wings that flitter in aqua tints,
perch a silver instant on nodding...

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Soft yellow-gray light of early morning,
Butter and wool
The two bedroom windows
Still beaded and streaked with rain.

The world calm again, routine with traffic,
After its night of convulsions,
When storm drains closed at the throat,
And trees shook in...

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Glass illusions forestry of butterflies in flight 
swiveling and turning wing, aiming for sun 
hovering over lulling waters of purple hues  
Breathing like flowers, frilling up the air 
inside a cornucopia world of rich...

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Written: April 4th, 2024
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Behold, arrays of dreamy dryads, 
With lacy halos of azure and amethyst dyads
Their ethereal...

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Oh, 
The Midnight's Princess is awake!
She who brings light:
Shining upon the greenery of the forest
Penetrating through its coat of darkness
That overshadows joy... and let's fear linger 
She who brings joy to all her people,
Sitting upon...

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