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Streets of Solitude

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                                           Streets of Solitude

                                    Along the streets of solitude
                                     I stroll alone but not lo...

Categories: milkweeds, feelings, loneliness, nature, solitude,
Form: Quatrain

Meal Fit For a King

...Out in the field is a bed of chicory,
down along the ditch, wild hydrangeas grow.
Dandelions in the yard are quite tasty,
so is the duckweed by the side of the road.

Wild lettuce, lamb’s quarte...

Categories: milkweeds, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Free the Dandelion

...Why
The dandelion
Do we hold with poisonous contempt?
The word weed grown to our lips
From what past snare?

Ah, those words that pop up from nowhere
To keep the front yard order
Clean flat a...

Categories: milkweeds, appreciation, change, earth, flower,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Forlorn Hope

...Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple mornings
Echoing exuberance of seasons’...

Categories: milkweeds, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse

A Summer's Eve

...One of the joys of summer are lightning bugs.Do you remember, as a child, chasing them on a balmy evening? They are so elusive. When you see one in front of you and go to catch it, it would be gone; ...

Categories: milkweeds, eve, feelings, summer,
Form: Free verse

Milk Blood

...I was not carrying milkweeds like a maiden when you met me.
The thunderous blood-red holler my ear yet not been acquainted with.

You rode your moods like a vaquero. In and out of ranges near swir...

Categories: milkweeds, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Serving Her Majesty

...monarch lays her eggs 
                     the milkweeds her nursery
                         and I her nursemaid 




MagiCicada 17


*Doubly blessed, another female Monarch visiting my m...

Categories: milkweeds, appreciation, baby, butterfly,
Form: Haiku

Missing Monarch

...I'm waiting for you

                                        butterfly

                              milkweeds are in bloom




MagiCicada 13


Nb minutes after I penned this I received ...

Categories: milkweeds, butterfly, flower,
Form: Haiku

A Midsummer Day

...A Midsummer Day

Locusts are buzzing high up in the trees
Birdsong is floating along on the breeze
Butterflies flitting between the Milkweeds
Chipmunks are chirping while munching on...

Categories: milkweeds, summer,
Form: Rhyme

Marking Time

...daylight hours 
Ozzie and Ben at the picnic table
milkweeds dance across the board
chess match underway all day, every day

many stories shared, some repeated; neither cared  
till knig...

Categories: milkweeds, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Priceless Beauty

...Secluded, far away from congested places
Lying In a field of green that graces
Picturesque valleys and rolling hills
Over laden miles of dainty daffodils
Thriving amidst a throng of flowers in na...

Categories: milkweeds, happiness, life, peace
Form: Free verse

In My Summer Meadow

...In my summer meadow

Lavender colored milkweeds, growing between dark  purple butterfly peas, are 
perfuming the warm air. 
The color combination is especially pleasing to me; I love purple.
Per...

Categories: milkweeds, nature, seasonssweet, summer, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry

Disappointment

...Traveling across a countryfied road.
Large hollows furbished of  loose
pebbles and twisted roots ascend
from a prominent blue spruce.

Rotting posts, a barbed wired
fence, and pair of Mustangs
...

Categories: milkweeds, family
Form: Verse