Long Springy Poems

When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...

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Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Time moves quickly, catching me unaware.  It seems just yesterday I was a child growing up.  Yet in a way, it seems like eons ago. I wonder where all the years went. ...

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Oh, my Dear Little One ...

Sleep, and sleep soundly ...
Dream of the wispy realms,
Where the stars dance and spin,
For the morrow shall bring much change.

Such horror we have left behind ...
Such a long, arduous journey...

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Small And Large, Black And Brown Cats And Dogs
A Concrete Poem


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Written: March 2nd, 2024
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Wingbeats on warm whisper wavelength
wasteland, waves of wasabi writhe
with wilting, whimpering, witless wring...

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Give us our daily bread . . . 
We shall not mind if we 
Have a daily milk,

Neither shall we take offence 
If we have a daily butter  to match. 

Who amongst you will...

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I'll be turning 68 this spring
and still looking for a health-wealthy home.

This feels remarkably like a younger traveler's game,
with less capital-acquisition baggage
and toxic furniture
and uncooperative tools.

Embarrassing
for an ecotherapist
to be so Earth-habitat unrooted.

Not to indulge in...

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I first met her on a holiday at Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve. 
Love strikes me like lightning when I saw her, 
so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. 
It turns me inside out, 
and there...

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Where Doth The Internet Exist?

The pro fun ditty of above
stated poetic side - title aligned
into an unexpected Eureka
(out of a vacuum) find
just when I felt slight (creative/

cerebral constipation) bind
of writer's block about
to take residence, entwined
(no...

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A young boy was told a good night,
a good night to sleep right and tight.
But crawling in the sheets of his bed,
in the corner he found three eyes
glowing red.
A malicious monster crawled into light,
a frantic...

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I've heard the moon whispering to the stars
About your beauty about your olive eyes
One lost its way, 
One fells in you universe,
But another still fading away, 
Here it dies.
They all swore that no one would...

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The rake fans out with long slender fingers.
They’re springy, giving a bounce
as they dig in and jump up.

The handle is wood – I wear gloves
To prevent splinters and blisters.
They will not prevent the blisters.

Stroking,
Each one...

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So I look back for 60 years to my old bay horse star...
Hard mouthed, a galloper just the thing,
 at 5 what speed and power....
My chestnut pony stallion was a pig rooter with the best,...
Got...

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fallen leaves
           whose veins etch the ground
           in shapes
      ...

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Marlowe’s ‘The Passionate Shepherd to his Love’
‘ Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove,’

see about this poem...
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The Maiden’s Answer

I’ll come with thee and pledge my life
if ye...

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Such a beautiful sunny day so we went out for a drive
We walked on a springy pink and purple heather carpet 
then foraged on the hedgerows bursting with bilberries 
whilst butterflies danced and swallows swept...

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Laughing inside I wiped my 
Coffee rimmed lips
With my shirt sleeve
A cat drunk on cream
Finally at peace.
We all know
Days like these

Nothing matters
When nothing makes
Sense anymore
Questions don't always have 
Answers. Sometimes we 
Are faced with answers...

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One day I tasted upon my liar's tounge the sweet sugar of victory, only to
find that my pride had turned it to salt, and for
all that, it was refreshing. I
realized that sugar is everywhere, and
salt...

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To taste your tender essence once again
Springy, warm, lovely vanilla infused
Once more to travel the road to attain
A delightful thin slice of fudge suffused

Memories how they cling to your presence
Maybe create sweet impressions of my...

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Adrift, a-meadow in spring color,
Daisy, daffodil, dandelion, 
A signal flag wrinkles and flaps with motion;
Awash, a-drizzle dazzle of rain. 
A girl floats to the tides current
Happy to hale the freedom of her new skirt
Happy to...

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I came across a Jumpher
A jumphin’ up at me.
It wasn’t very springy
As far as i could see.

It tried to do someothersault,
Impressing like a tree,
But landed with a thumping thud
And hurt his only knee.

‘How come you...

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Sea Of Love

Holidays on gilt kissed shores 
In the season of suns
Is a dream after every wintery travail

With springy feet I had scoured the soft sands
Running a relays with assorted sea-shore temptations -
Corals, kites, sandy...

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