Long Puffballs Poems

you know him if you live in a warm climate---
he doesn’t stick out because in a warm climate,
many choose to don shorts & sandals,
sometimes they even go shirtless 
when the heat calls for the stripping...

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Chester CatMaster, a nature wizard,
cast a few spells upon some lazy lizards;
chanting “Meow-chi-nik-de-nook-do-kangi”,
he turned them into various fungi.

There were Buttons and ake,
Puffballs, Polypores and maitake;
Hedgehog, Earpiks and Penny Buns,
Old Chester was having so much fun.

Chester...

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I lose myself by the placid pond
brimming with yellow and iridescent fowl!
Are they held together by filial bond
in that enchanting man-made bowl?

Amorous duo in a trance profound
drift complacently in love's slow ebb
One of them turning...

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A countryside walk gives me such delight
yellow dandelions grow in the field
Soon they will transform, changing to pure white
soft puffballs, where minute seeds are concealed -
to a gentle breeze all these seeds will yield 

Tiny...

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They stand tall with their yellow coat,
Before they send their saintly seeds afloat…
Spiritual soldiers in silence softly set sail,
Through fields of dreams with a tenuous trail.

Dancing and drifting until the wind has gone,
Bringers of wishes...

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another today

I will fill my hours
chock full of silliness.
paint my face
clown red with big 
peering eyes that 
see all that is serious
making me delirious.

I walk into the 
forest as far as I am able,
my lunch...

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Patches of silv'ry dew on young green grass
Catch me smiling back as I do pass;
Catch me, too, do leafy tweets I hear---
Little tings of May that treat my ear.

Day has come up perfect, winds are...

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Deep in the meadow, down
Under thick trees,
Slumbering Summertime
Lies at ease.

Limbs of the shadows there
Stretch in the sun,
Languidly striving with
Sunrays spun.

Softer than silentness
Flowerbells ring;
Louder than puffballs
Not one thing.

Robin nor sparrow now
Chitter or peep;
Fast in the bushes...

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