Songs of Nature COS No 12: AABB
...Occasions a sign as moonglade o'er lake.
Hears lay the sleeper in brevities wake,
retold roses red and violets blue,
yet best in scarlet as would maroon too
and lavender is said truer than blue
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Categories:
parches, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Weathered
...Diminished by age, a weathered existence limps
Crutching dimmed vision and impaired limbs,
Much wiser that before, it speaks wisdom words
Entertaining grandkids in stories that enlighten,
Wishi...
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Categories:
parches, age, old,
Form: Free verse
Hysterical Blindness
...Sure as spring-ebullient cedes to summer’s escapades
In vagaries of time a budding flower parches and fades
And the sweet sound of hatchlings abandons its nest
And autumn’s gilded leaves perish in...
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Categories:
parches, anxiety, confusion, depression, stress,
Form: Verse
Time Passages
..."Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978
Time Passages
I drift midst some pleasant sensation~~from a morning mist,
th...
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Categories:
parches, time,
Form: Sijo
Our God Flies
...Our God who lives, flows in the waters,
tumbles in rivers, and drifts in snows,
flashes as silver from shoals of fish,
darts in darkness round rugged rocks,
blooms afresh as showers bring flowers...
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Categories:
parches, christian, creation, environment, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Star of the Roundup
...A cowboy’s life’s not easy,
as he rides across the range.
His bed roll on the saddle;
his spurs, they bang and clang.
A campfire is his cook stove;
the stars above, his map.
A sta...
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Categories:
parches, character, cool, horse, imagery,
Form: Sestina
Polluted Heart
...POLLUTED HEART
Thirsty soil parches in scorching summer
Sucks liquid crystal drops of sparkling rain
Stores in deep aquifer pure groundwater
Brought to surface, pure it...
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Categories:
parches, analogy, heart, love, pollution,
Form: Dizain
Life In Its Meaning
...Never the less,
But more and more done, unless
Something in itself to timidly parches
Living without life is an empty rub
Is a dry brush to grab
the lovely wet bub....
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Categories:
parches, life,
Form: I do not know?
The Hiccups of the Valleys
...The thousands of words pain of imagination which improvised the parch of life to itchy sky, the foods is mudslides to the sadden caskets of corpses lying unattended, in the morning where they monitor...
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Categories:
parches, dark, emotions, tribute,
Form: Didactic
Scorching
...Anger like noon blazing
Parches all the earth below
Leaving it barren
And follow in the dark night
Nothing here shall ever grow...
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Categories:
parches, allegory
Form: Tanka