Xmas Embellishments
...Gifts love-packed
Glass-balls gleam around
Plastic-bells compact
Move to and fro without sound
Amidst wreaths, and nutcrackers
Wool-stuffed Santa Claus
Waves his hands like backpackers
Gives ...
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Categories:
redpolls, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Parade of Feathers
...no bands formed, no marshal led
this was a unique parade for birds instead
all dressed up in their colorful wardrobe
proudly representing their native abode
the great snowy egret so staunch and...
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Categories:
redpolls, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn of Abundance
...In autumn when the woods are shades of red,
wind scatters the reddish leaves overhead.
Falling seeds fain to heaven's moist rain spreads
to swell the earth, and plump latent seedbed.
Wind scatt...
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Categories:
redpolls, autumn, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Nature's Baubles
...Lying beneath cool morning shade
I ponder what is heaven made.
Gazing at the azure sky
while tufted clouds wander by
A silent hawk circles above
probing for a gray m...
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Categories:
redpolls, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme