Gifts of the Winter Witch
...A venetian red yearling’s head
Pops up
From behind a fallen log
Licks rouge from its lips
And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark
Ears tweaking
To the snow-crunch creak
Of my dog and me appr...
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Categories:
necklaced, angel, animal, earth, january,
Form: Free verse
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
necklaced, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
TANKA show tell COLLECTION
...without-
the waning sun
warms my face
shalom cloaks
the wells within
with a tremor of light-
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye
on ...
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Categories:
necklaced, poetry,
Form: Didactic
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 ca...
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Categories:
necklaced, beauty, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Misty Morn
...fog at dawn
necklaced cobwebs
allure
shapes
shadows
light bright tones
soften and shade
dreams...
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Categories:
necklaced, autumn, morning,
Form: Imagism
Trees Hiku X 2
...winter fog at dawn-
cobwebs shivver
necklaced to the hedge
against the sky
stark tree silhouettes -
arbor assemblage unveiled...
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Categories:
necklaced, poetry, tree, winter,
Form: Haiku
Tanka the Form P
...hanging from the trees
winter fog welcomes the dawn
and obscures the light--
cobwebs shimmer
necklaced to the hedge
NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amp...
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Categories:
necklaced, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Tanka the Form I
...fog at dawn
necklaced cobwebs
allure
entranced
passers-by
NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amplification (TELL)...
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Categories:
necklaced, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Cinqku Mar 21
...a thick
mist blankets
the winter dawn-
necklaced jewels bedeck
the hedge
NOTE:A cinqku is an 'English language 'version of a tanka with 17 syllables 2;3;4;6;2
no title and last two(or thr...
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Categories:
necklaced, poetry, word play,
Form: Cinqku
Tanka Feb 4
...hanging from the trees
winter fog welcomes the dawn
and obscures the light--
cobwebs shimmer
necklaced to the hedge
NOTE:Essentially a tanka in English is a 3 line hiku(SHOW)& a 2 line couplet...
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Categories:
necklaced, poetry, word play,
Form: Tanka
Marchsillypus
...O Marchsillypus!
Sour apples, roaring dandelions
lambykins and daffodils
furglowering seeds
blown through sweetling fingers
and tweedy cantankerous fiends
with the fierceness of lions
toss the...
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Categories:
necklaced, humor, march, silly,
Form: Light Verse
The Holly and the Hawthorn
...A familiar scene to all who walk this lovely
Spot, as into view close by the river path
Comes something which is not
The usual day-to-day. All who pass her pause,
Then stop to gaze on Hagut...
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Categories:
necklaced, blessing, christian, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Grumpy Old Man
...Love comes in all
shapes and sizes – Thank God!
Myself having evolved in some
rather, undesirable directions...
But what is the same anymore?
Environmentalists say, not the sky!
Not the sea...
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Categories:
necklaced, analogy, corruption, introspection, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Charmouth Cliffs
...Green carpet fields, laid seamed and edged
with berry hedge
and windswept tufted trees hemline the valley stream that cuts through to the sea.
Coarse bracken covers the higher cliff,
with f...
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Categories:
necklaced, appreciation, beauty, christian, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Choice Cinqku For You
...a thick
mist blankets
the winter dawn-
necklaced jewels bedeck
the hedge...
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Categories:
necklaced, imagery,
Form: Cinqku
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