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The Wee Folk of Bensham Bog

...I was once told a story, of the wee folk of Bensham Bog; they live in carved mushroom houses that are shaped like bullfrogs and they ensure the survival of creatures there. They travel in petrifie...

Categories: peat moss, animal, children, fantasy, myth,
Form: Haibun

Tar Roof Top

...Away with you to tall golden grasses
to the sound of a creek running over rocks
the babble and gaggle of water sounds
Away with you to open spaces where you can breathe
To big fields that stretch...

Categories: peat moss, freedom, love, nature,
Form: Free verse

Stool Matters--

...STOOL MATTERS--
O' crap, whatz wuzz that~!!
Oh, I stepped in and animal excrement, 
specially that of common domestic
 farm animals left in pasture used as fertilizer
Solid matter dis...

Categories: peat moss, adventure, analogy, anxiety, engagement,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Tree Covers Me-

...The tree follows me;
Its trunk runs from garden to field;
Crossing lands of peat moss and greenery;
Branches embracing me, crown of leaves covers me;
Radiant foliage shadows me;
R...

Categories: peat moss, analogy, environment, humanity, tree,
Form: Free verse

His Irish Rose

...Quills made of clouds 'pon shamrock tides 
scribing gulls crying over Boru's throne
from peat moss eye and crumbling stone
the gales preserve his verse for all time.
To heaven he gifted wee emera...

Categories: peat moss, bird, poets,
Form: Rhyme

The Last Mountain Man

...the eagle watches me 
from high above 
it has finally come to this 
I stand on this ragged lookout 
this jagged rock 
alone 

my friends are gone 
Bruce "Bear Paw" Perry 
Billy Fly and Black...

Categories: peat moss, appreciation, change, sad, senses,
Form: Free verse

Dreaming a Long-Dead Dream

...I write this as a performer
A puppetmaster's sad game
An archetype that I can never shed

The years are growing shorter
With nothing left to fill them
I've reached this mountaintop
But it's to...

Categories: peat moss, abuse, depression,
Form: Lyric

Salt and Pepper

...Laughing loons calling to you
Blood red eyes diving deeper 
Until they surface, bellies full and fat
Salt and pepper feathers dance in the sun
Gliding past sound sleeping cedars on shore
...

Categories: peat moss, 3rd grade, environment, heaven,
Form: Blank verse

Night Time

...It's three sticks come at One:Eleven.
The Whet Owls' sight a-glare.
The forest black to touch the sky
where moonlight's blue to pair.

With crisp cool air between the trees.
Smells floating on ...

Categories: peat moss, beauty, environment, nature, night,
Form: Quatrain

Colored Designs

...Everytime you discover 
a new black hole;
someone crosses the border
and starts crying.

Thread weaved in and out 
of tapestry. You were nailed 
to the wall, which never 
had any doors.

Wh...

Categories: peat moss, art,
Form: ABC

Homage To St Michael

...A Knight from the vast Kingdom
of The King of Holy Throne.
Michael slept within a castle
on beds of peat moss, and of loam.                               
His face was sedimentary,
though laught...

Categories: peat moss, dedication, faith, passion, peace,
Form: Verse

I Remember When

...I have a faint memory  
From a time long ago I was five maybe six
I was walking a dirt path from my grand parent?s bungalow
It was early in the morning and the peat moss was everywhere

I rememb...

Categories: peat moss, childhood, nostalgiagrandmother, me,
Form: Light Verse