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Miramichi Afternoon

...Miramichi Afternoon
The sloping shoulders of the river
tumble down rock on rock toward 
the wind-riffled, slow flowing water.
Alder and grass creep down the slope
but will be ripped out once aga...

Categories: riffled, day, earth, fishing, nature,
Form: Free verse

Sorrows Lure

...
The Aspen quaked in mild calm.
A stream nearby sent riffled song.
This trail less trod now almost gone.
‘Twas barren once now grown quite long.

Around a bend and down a steep
therein the bru...

Categories: riffled, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

A Coin In The Fountain

...Twirling
Head over heels
Sun glinting
On its edges
Dreams afloat
On riffled air
The splash
A cool see-saw descent
Of hope’s
Last penny
...

Categories: riffled, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

become as we

...Sitting alone she whispered:

“I wish I had Poetry”

A passing butterfly
           Offered her wings
A setting sun
          Its “orange-ness”
The passing breeze
          Its scented story...

Categories: riffled, poets,
Form: Free verse

An Incomplete Love Story

...An Incomplete Love Story

Too fast the pages riffled
through dreary decades
innocence confronted
loves lusty laughter
growing faint
in darkened corridors.

Forever’s love
hesitant in a hazy...

Categories: riffled, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Raven

...Raven

He riffled through his thoughts erecting a wall;
black eyes from unplumbed depth of shifting sea.
Gray as gray, as the raven mocks and pin
with a withering look a prostrate paw...

Categories: riffled, raven,
Form: Free verse

Shaken Not Stirred

...anticipation
cradled in the arms
           of hope
lies in wait
      in the aisles
of the innocent mind;
so frail
steadily eroded
        by experience,
riffled by
    the wind of reality...

Categories: riffled, hope,
Form: Verse

Signs of Spring

...I woke to the tinkling of melting snow
dipping from my roof to the ground below.

A Robin chirping in a nearby tree,
sounded like it was serenading me.

The rising sun was wearing a war...

Categories: riffled, beauty, imagery, imagination, seasons,
Form: Couplet

Big Storm A'Comin'

...Big Storm A’Comin’


“Big storm a’comin’”
that’s what the old man said.

A heavy quiet crept over the valley
as if embracing a frightened child.

No lullabies riffled through the muffled tre...

Categories: riffled, children, nature, weather,
Form: Free verse

Carry-On

...I hate to check my luggage
When I’m about to fly.
I much prefer to carry-on
And here are reasons why - 

My suitcase can’t get very lost
If it’s within my reach
And no one’s hands have riffled...

Categories: riffled, flying,
Form: Rhyme

Hold Back the Sun

...The curtains riffled by a breeze, intrudes upon the solitude
 ....Please, let us warn them, if we must, to restrain the hour once again, 
     for we intrust to weave this time to be our ...

Categories: riffled, love, morning, passion,
Form: Free verse

Luke

...LUKE
                                                                        Frank Halliwell

It seems a year or two at most that Luke has been around,
But nine have passed since first I spied him at...

Categories: riffled, pets,
Form: Rhyme

Dover Lights

...Near Dover Arkansas can be viewed on most any night 
A puzzle documented as, ‘The Dover city lights‘ 

Folks from many miles around, some even out of town
Eyes fill with wonderment when the light...

Categories: riffled, mysterynight, lost, lost, night,
Form: Couplet