Leaf
...Leaf
It wasn’t the time to leave,
but stem chewed and gale combined and the leaf fell.
Hairstreak, full green not yet ready,
not curled by summer’s end, crisped by West Coast salt, mottled by f...
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Categories:
prandial, environment, loss, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Peace and Disquiet
...a quiet afternoon
mind unspooling a tranquil languor
post prandial serenity lapping at sunny shores
easing my way into the garden
to dead-head roses
to prune the over eager
feeling well
i...
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Categories:
prandial, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Restaurant Reapings 3
...Aware of my attention to her as well as my proximate presence, she went on in a steadily refined rhythm, neither upset nor uplifted, holding my slick sight at reducible ductility and scotching its sn...
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Categories:
prandial, inspirational, writing,
Form: Haibun
Broken Peace
...it is a quiet afternoon
the mind unspooling
into lethargy
post prandial serenity lapping
at peaceful shores
now easing my way
into the garden
dead-head roses
prune the over eager
feelin...
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Categories:
prandial, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must be the real rea...
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Categories:
prandial, art, humor, irony, women,
Form: Epigram
Sloe Gin
...Feb-ru-ary –
Snow-white blossom,
Winter hedgerow shining.
Now September –
Hedgerow harvest:
Sloe-black, slow, black,
Black fruit with purple bloom.
Sloe gin, slow, gin,
Let the alchemy be...
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Categories:
prandial, drink, fruit, september,
Form: Free verse
Bedtime On Tramp - Part Two
...He helped himself up to the wind's foremost blow
On a hillock where the moon searched his impecunious pockets,
Waking a flood in his eyes like swelled teats.
He opened wide to receive the Lady, this ...
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Categories:
prandial, life, time, cat, time,
Form: Narrative
Indulgence
...A granite bust statuette of Nefertiti
Bought at Abu Simbel on our Egyptian cruise
Serves us as a solid paperweight
On windy mornings reading the 'Weekly News'.
A cigar on the terrace is my onl...
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Categories:
prandial, inspirational
Form: Iambic Pentameter