Orchard Smudging
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Orchard Smudging
Written: by Miracle Man
3/28/2024
When, heavy frost was forecast,
for all the area and reaches.
Orchards would burn smudge pots,
trying to save their peaches.
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Categories:
northwesterly, fruit, weather,
Form: Quatrain
Wyre
...Going home
across the Shard bridge
spanning a rattle-snaked river
that bites into the Irish sea
cold-bloodedly pumping
into Fleetwood's gaping fish-mouth.
Here birthmarks
are branded wit...
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Categories:
northwesterly, nature,
Form: Free verse
Gogyohka Fan Brushed
...Cerulean above
Fan brushed with fossil, ash, silver and cloud
Zephyr's northwesterly cold
Hemlock seeds and broom sage tassels fly
November surprises ...
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Categories:
northwesterly, november,
Form: Other
Ginkgo's Fall Leaves
...I
Thought there
Were golden
Leaves upon the
Ground beneath my gold
Ginkgo, alas~~ only
Yellow frost bitten grass lies
Left wet from yesterday's winter
Rain, as the almost bare li...
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Categories:
northwesterly, analogy,
Form: Etheree
No Ordinary Angels
...Somber gray clouds float
Northwesterly with speed
Limbs dance, shiver, rest
Her birth like this winter day
Poverty, dysfunction reigned
No ordinary
Angels just human...
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Categories:
northwesterly, child, family,
Form: Tanka
The Poverty of Self Loathing
...The poverty of self- loathing
The of the cloak of poetry I once wore
does not protect me against my insecurity
the fear of being destitute.
Nowhere to hide when the northwesterly blows
and ha...
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Categories:
northwesterly, confidence, corruption, creation, cute,
Form: Blank verse
Smiling In the Dawn
...Smiling In The Dawn
Haiku - Tanka
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tis natures rhythm
heart beating in seasons
climate change cofounds
robins singing out of tune
winter sun confusing all
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Categories:
northwesterly, nature,
Form: Haiku
Icy
...Icy northwesterly winds whip
Like a buggy whip cracks,
Hurrying the horses along
Dragging winter on its back.
Green leaves battered to the brown earth
Instant early death befalls.
Tender ...
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Categories:
northwesterly, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Glass
...Roosters crow at the break of day
Inviting the sun to come up
And reveal a partly cloudy sky
While the poet shivers as she stays
Out on the porch to view up high
The odd slow movement of clo...
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Categories:
northwesterly, nature, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Stripped Naked
...stripped naked shivering
raped by northwesterly wind
stiff bare limbs vibrate
leaves once ablaze rest 'pon roots
nourishment for spring's rebirth ...
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Categories:
northwesterly, earth, nature,
Form: Tanka