Volcano Run part 3 - Escaping the Ashfall
...Part three
Once we were home, the bikes secure
we sealed the clubhouse, best we could
waiting for the ash to stop
but fearing that it never would,
All the TV news was dismal;
all predictin...
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Categories:
loping, fun, journey, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Reptile by Birth
...Into the abyss
I look in to see
Peeking over, to discern
Her looking up at me.
Reptile cold and slithe,
I slither through the dewy blades,
And writhley race across the glade.
A lumping cr...
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Categories:
loping, animal, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Dark Days Are Coming
...Dark Days Are Coming
Dark days are coming
Loping over the far horizon
Distant still, a little,
Yet they approach, all the same.
The familiar disappears
Note by note
As the past piles up be...
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Categories:
loping, angst, anxiety, grief, journey,
Form: Free verse
Symbiosis
...Somewhere in a rugged sunny terrain
a bushy-maned pony kicks up his heels
amid biting flies in a grueling summer heat.
An elegant cattle egret hitches a ride.
Devouring grassland insects, his dai...
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Categories:
loping, animal, relationship,
Form: Free verse
I Breathe Poetry
...(I am with my published four books of poems.)
I breathe poetry wielding a tool, mighty,
mightier than either the sword or rod.
I reign as an Empress in Fancy's domain,
sketching li...
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Categories:
loping, inspiration, poetry, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Witcher County Road
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There's a gonna be a crimson moon tomorrow night...
Me and Delroy, heading down Witcher at half past midnight. Our destination: Witcher Redemption Church of Christ. It's been pouring like crazy ...
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Categories:
loping, child abuse, fear, religion,
Form: Haibun
Sailor’s Sunset
...The sky broke like an egg into full sunset
and the water caught fire.
—Pamela Hansford Johnson
Sailor’s Sunset
Plummeting orb, hoary red sun,
envelopes us - we’ve just begun....
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Categories:
loping, imagery, love, marriage, sensual,
Form: Quatrain
Serious Sibling Subluxation
...Serious sibling subluxation...
rapprochement somewhat salvaged dislocation
Truth be told about following poem
mostly written quite some years ago,
and revisions made to recreate
and revise ...
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Categories:
loping, absence, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Born To the Sun
...Born to the sun
In the blink of an eye
Hair to the wind
Hands to the sky
A vision aglow
At the top of the hill
A jewel on the rise
– A heart beating still
Golden the sparkle
That glows ...
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Categories:
loping, heart, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Cracked Iceberg
...Chubby cream grubby against white ice
Hungry somewhat clumsy polar bear heist
Hopefully loping over to an asylum of seals
Tusked beasts bound to become tasty meals
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Categories:
loping, animal, cute, earth, funny,
Form: Burlesque
Watching Blackbirds
...Watching Blackbirds
Again, I find myself watching the blackbirds
They come as a cloud that sits upon the ground
Each respecting his wingman’s space
As they pass overhead, they sound like a sudd...
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Categories:
loping, nature,
Form: Free verse
Torch Lake - No More Troubles
...I swear the seagull’s cry
Mimics the tantrum
Of a waddling toddler in diapers
Who’s stepped on a thorn on shore
I listen from a distance
Not my trouble
How many perfect sticks have I thrown...
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Categories:
loping, dad, love, peace, remember,
Form: Free verse
Rattlesnake Hill
...RATTLESNAKE HILL
Meshoppen Township, Pennsylvania
Every high summer has a magical day
when the forests and fields are impossibly
green, bathed sun-up to sundown in a
yellow-gold light ma...
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Categories:
loping, love, marriage, nature,
Form: Free verse
Three Fewer
...The tabby slinkily strutted across the yard
fresh kill held loosely in diamond teeth;
a turtle dove, its tiny head bobbing,
to the lazy rhythm of the loping cat.
A flash of pink spangled collar
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Categories:
loping, animal, bird, cat, death,
Form: Free verse
Menelaus
...Eyes, in such a way, that some strange virture, some everlasting release
Was imparted to he. A strange bargain indeed; to resist the gods and to please
Satan in his rebellioin from all that was nat...
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Categories:
loping, angel, anger, aubade, bird,
Form: Ekphrasis
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