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Long Sweltry Poems

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Premium Member Nature's Mimes
I was a celebrated, dramatic mime artist, an art developed in ancient Greece;
I took folks on flights of imagination, like cushy, butterscotch clouds of fleece.

So beloved was this art called re-creation, that it had for...

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Categories: sweltry, beauty, fantasy, fun, imagery, joy, nature, work,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member strange fruit -
in a dream -
Mississippi, the 50's
lone hike on a sweltry spring-tide day
rolling fields of cotton and wheat
cauliflower clouds like lazy old men
creeping across a buttery haze …
as I walk, I tickle the tops of the...

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Categories: sweltry, allusion, hate, metaphor, nature, prejudice, spring, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweltry Summer
One of those humid, hard-to-breathe summers
when flowers bloom across meadows and fields.
Fireflies glow at night to songs of hummers,
cicada; whose loud army never yields

Days at the beach, building castles of sand
Fishing trips to catch and...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sweltry, summer,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things