Winter Sonata
...Oh, my wondrous winter rose!
I live to see you bloom in all your charming chilling grace.
Awaiting your pearly presence to embellish my arctic stance stilled in mystic motion,
where my frosted sac...
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Categories:
monophony, devotion, imagery, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Ekphrasis On Water Lilies
...waterlilies promenading
in a lonesome pond
are glimmering jewels
of green onyx and emerald
exuding empyrean elegance
of your perennial aura
oh, the purplish water
that holds her tiny roots
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Categories:
monophony, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Eastern Tent Caterpillars
...Mid-spring, skinny, black, blind
eastern tent caterpillars -
Malacosoma americanum -
falling from the cherry tree
leaning, human, over our deck.
Irksome. Mash and kick
them with my feet, cont...
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Categories:
monophony, body, light, morning, nature,
Form: Verse