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Rill Poems - Poems about Rill


Premium Member The Dream of a Rill
The Dream of a Rill Up in the highlands a leafy green dell where day dreamers dream in the quiet still blissfully dreaming beneath nature’s spell. Where clusters of daisies cover the hill and soft sighing zephyrs sway the blue bell slow dancing in time by a bubbling rill The rill herself is a wandering stream And she, like the dreamers,...

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Categories: rill, nature,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Building a Rill
I filled a small trench that yielded fresh water. Built as a serpentine and with a sharp corner. A small waterfall sang a melodious sound, A lulled sleepiness induced when it hit the ground. On each side of the rill, fair, watery plants grew, A great choice of Algae. Ferns, a lobelia blue. Fitful arrowheads and water lilies adorn. Cardinals and others...

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Categories: rill, flower, water,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Ghosts In the Rill
The level of the stinky dirty water Of the creek running near my house Not falling this year. In this dry season, Water not falling from the taps, the rivers became lean. Its course somewhere encroached upon Protests have not heard, non willing to stop Earth filled and fenced . And in the dirty rill Its water level rather rising I saw them...

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Categories: rill, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Name Is Caryl -Kah Rill
My father’s sister was a Caryl, so I was the one, To inherit the Welch version of Carol said, KAH rill. I thought the name was unique; it gave me a thrill, To know I was special enough to be second to none. First grade was hard for me to grasp the spelling, Constantly wrote Carly, dyslexia was a doozy. Mother...

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Categories: rill, joy, me,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Welsh Rill
old saw scissored shades of Betsycoed taste of yester youth's sweet tones splashing sound of forest water kissing shining sacred stones Dreams of swirling druids dancing in the faery water's rill flash reflective thoughts of flight The dragon tears yet spill The druid hymn of waiting for greed to die of want a constant scream of tortured winds belie the curse of can't What matters ought to those...

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Categories: rill, life, nature, on writing
Form: Iambic Pentameter




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