Billys Walk to School
...Billy no longer needed his hood for the rain
She had stopped ten minutes ago
But his yellow slicker felt comfortable around his face
He trudged through the overly tall grasses toward school
It ...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, march,
Form: Free verse
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the s...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
End Game
...I figured it out
A long time ago.
Call it a hunch;
Bulls-eye! With an arrow.
Faith and wisdom will
Sort it all out.
Pieces of a puzzle
Strewn all about.
Good and evil,
No neutral ground....
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Categories:
out like a lamb, bible, deep, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Out Like a Lamb This Spring
...All of March, within what seems to have been light winds,
(and out like a lamb this Spring)
I enjoyed arugala salads with dried cranberries and a
sprinkling of sunflower seeds, and tomatoes...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, angst, appreciation, feelings, food,
Form: Rhyme
Greenswards Fecundity Will Soon Bloom Away
...Quite mild winter weather bourne this way
within environs of Perkiomen Valley
since latter months of 2021,
but also since me
January 13th, 2022 birthday,
I predict minimal snowfall
for remaind...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, adventure, beautiful, birth, color,
Form: Rhyme
March In
...March In
“In like a lion out like a lamb.” Old March idiom
Capricious and fickle
March - wind piper of mischief
Wakes rainbows with sun and storm
Sends kites on rollicking adventures.
Ma...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, joy, march,
Form: Verse
The End of March
...March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb;
At least that's what they say.
Here in Alberta it's blowing a storm.
Mother Nature's having a Hey Day.
March came in rather quietly,
Here in The...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, march, seasons,
Form: Quatrain
Out Like a Lamb
...March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
— English proverb
Any sign of Spring makes me sigh
— Kim Rodrigues
OUT LIKE A LAMB
pink petals ...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Greenswards Fecundity Blooms Away
...Greenswards Fecundity Blooms Away ™
Within a fortnight, as tempestuous slam
dunk March madness closes curtain call
“in like a lion, out like a lamb,”
twill hove tested survivability,
asper fl...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, appreciation, celebration, daffodils, garden,
Form: Pastoral
Springtime
...The beast of winter
crept off after Spring's first week.
Sun now strokes my cheek.
I can almost hear a bleat.
March will go out like a lamb.
An oldie revised for
Rick P...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, spring,
Form: Tanka
Preston Graham - Bio
...I was born in the dusk of March.
There was a blizzard, I’m told.
But I don’t remember it that way.
So much for “out like a lamb,”
and at an ounce over ten pounds,
my mother likely shares the sen...
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Categories:
out like a lamb,
Form: Free verse
Spring, Oh So Close
...Sunny today
but Oh what a chill
The wind inhales and exhales
the trees bend on the hill
Winnie the Poohs Blustery Day
just cannot compete
In like a lion and out like a lamb
I am so tired...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, fun, green, march, nature,
Form: Rhyme
March 2012
...“In like a lamb and out like a lion” OR “In like a lion and out like a lamb”
Leaving a snow white trail across my yard
and giving a mighty roar,
the lion had arrived.
The beast of winter
cr...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, nature,
Form: Tanka
March Madness
...This morning the winds were eighty miles an hour.
The rain lashed down, Nature showing her power.
Now, an hour later, the sun shines so bright
Casting down her warm rays, a beautiful sight.
Our...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, life, nature, seasons
Form: Rhyme
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
...Inside the fierce beast, beats the heart of a king
No challengers come forth to contest his throne
Leisurely days spent dreaming of his pride
Ingesting meat taken down by his females
Knowing hi...
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Categories:
out like a lamb, allegory, animals, imagination, life,
Form: Acrostic
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