Seasons Ottava Rima Poems

Love for him has lessened with the passing time.
Agonizing moments shift to fleeting hours.
Inner wounds and surface sores are doing fine.
Grieve not for days gone...

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Blustery breezes rustle the changing leaves,
as nature braces for Winter's arrival.
And a shower of color falls from the trees,
an homage to Spring; Autumn's closest rival.
Scurrying...

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Arbor of Wisteria and Clematis

Memory of appealing Wisterias
Uncovering the grand butterfly bush;
near the lilacs and lonely gardenias;
as the light essence of spring bring a rush.
little...

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Life’s cyclic existence from death to rebirth
best understood this season of burgeoning.
Flora, as Phoenix, rises from the sodden earth
in graceful flourish of death unburdening
itself with...

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The flirting and buzzing of the Bumblebees,
From Frangipani to Scarlet Monarda.
Nature flourished with new and Kelly green trees,
Me enjoying a bowl of fresh Mostarda.
Everywhere new,...

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With dawn's light shining incredibly bright,
I woke to the trickle of melting snow.
Suggesting spring had arrived overnight,
dripping icicles set my heart aglow.
And though winter is...

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The time of growth and change is done and past.
From thaw to frost activity prevailed, 
And change came often, often coming fast, 
Till finalizing Fall...

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Mists caress the curves of slumbering earth
Concealing the beauty hidden below
Whose fruitful womb rests after giving birth
To an abundance of life in hedgerow,
Woods, and mountains...

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The lions are not called upon to dance,
                 ...

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To tiptoe through the aqua of his eyes
and feel unmoving waters in his gaze.
I watch his lashes lilting with my sighs,

and know their umber fills...

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Dust and sand move speedily up the sky,
As clouds darkened and threatened with great sound
Legs run,wind blows and swallows set to fly,
Tree branches bend and...

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As Mother Nature strolls across her lands,
Remembering the pusywillows there. 
Bedecked with ferns and roses in her hands.
She visits them while deeply breathing air.
Their unique...

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My God above whose wisdom surely shows 
When Mother Nature paints her glory grand.
While gilding grass beside the river grows,
The autumn trees with golden leaves,...

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Autumns design takes candor beyond man.
Showing reality we all try to hide.
Sharing nakedness broad in noble plan,
Though recycling natures secure pride,
Bolder, at the end of...

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The sunlight shimmers in the meadow fair,
As blades of grass embrace a newborn fawn.
Proud blue jays’ shrieking permeates the air.
And tree frogs thither serenade the...

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