Leaf
...
Viceroy butterfly, remarkable
dead ringer for the Monarch
eggs overwinter, a rolled-up leaf
displaying their mother's motif
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
overwinter, 11th grade, butterfly,
Form: Verse
If Only I Could
...If only I could shake off long rigorous winter;
and embrace secret hidden in the cool of spring.
Enlivened by nature; the twitter sound of the Scarlet Tanager,
its red-orange and black feathers,...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
overwinter, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Tales From the Hollow
...In a windswept vale the tree had spread its branches
Its shale like trunk defined by weather had many wounds
One in particular had hollowed inside this stanchion
Braced against pervading skies and...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
overwinter, destiny, earth, fate, home,
Form: Rhyme
Cameron Diaz
...Herpetologist meets actress (Cameron Diaz).
If he's funny he's me.
South America or Africa (on location).
In a diamond mind.
The protagonists (lovers), the diamonds, the miners and the minders.
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
overwinter, america, beauty, funny, happiness,
Form: Verse
If
...Let not olden days aspire
All about the you and me
In wild, wild winter of desire
Longing and longing to be
In each other’s warmth
Love is in the air, they say
Oh, with it the minded min...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
overwinter, lost lovelonging,
Form: Lyric