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My Cabin

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The mountains rise like white haired ancient gods.
The wolves howl their age old forgotten runes.
In the blue sky birds perform their glissades
As they fill the air with their joyful tunes.
The...

Categories: sallies, allegory, destiny, faith, nature,
Form: Rhyme

A Choral Arrangement

...I live in this house next to the crick
that I built up on some stilts
and my hounds sleep up under it
When it gets so hot you wilts
Yeah they sleep all day under the porch
And we hunt coons at n...

Categories: sallies, community,
Form: Rhyme

Planet In Peril

...Our beloved Planet lies in peril...
The Lords of Passion would decree.
The weather's getting warmer
As any fool can plainly see.

But I hate to burst your bubble
As Mother Nature takes her cour...

Categories: sallies, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

As Winter Flees Giving Spring a Begrudging Nod

...As Winter Flees Giving Spring A Begrudging Nod

As winter flees giving Spring a begrudging nod
So the farmer waits to turn over life giving sod
Mother Nature, bows to Heavenly hand of God
Summer...

Categories: sallies, appreciation, art, god, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

For Oscar On His 7th Birthday

...Take joy in all childhood affinities 
  for they are the makings of you my son.
I am a witness to boyish sallies
  and, you child, its face to always gladden.
That in some small measure you b...

Categories: sallies, birthday, son,
Form: Sonnet

Landscape On Lease

...Doors shut; wish to go in; in bushes of fears entangled,
Once opened and gone in, by hands of darkness much strangled;
Open sky calls; calls the wide earth; call mountain, hills and valleys,
Stran...

Categories: sallies, life, world,
Form: Rhyme

Sultry Summer

...Summer sallies in blazing hot
Gentle in approach it is not
Chilly Spring winds soon forgot

Scorching sun off cooling soil steams
Warming all the rivers and streams
Melting core of soft snow dr...

Categories: sallies, bird, day, garden, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Morbid Fascination Mine As Covid-19 Pandemic

...Morbid fascination (mine) as covid-19 pandemic...
foments rampant monopoly on bedlam

Wreaking ball (his stick) havoc (think ostensible
civil war scale not seen since Vietnam),
whereby microorga...

Categories: sallies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Saturday Night, and Nothing To Do

...It was 1949.  
Slow music was playing on the radio.
A young, handsome fast-talking 24 year old named Dick was driving around small town Iowa in a yellow convertible with red interior, feeling prett...

Categories: sallies, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Santa Catalina Island

...Island, I can see you - distant fine pearl.
We drop harbor anchor, music greets us.
Leis are given by a native grown girl.
We walk ocean street not using road's bus.
Hostel makes us welcomed show...

Categories: sallies, travel,
Form: Rhyme

A Fearsome Man Passing By

...A Fearsome Man Passing By
By Roy Merritt

A fearsome man passes by here whenever a storm arrives
A fearsome man with fearsome countenance and fearsome be his eyes
They be a fiery red a red not e...

Categories: sallies, evil, fear, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Patriot's Cause, America's Freedom

...Patriot's Cause, America's Freedom

America; here was found a shore on which to cast
fateful voyage , ship speeding at full mast
patriots true to historic cause
world now gives great applause

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Categories: sallies, america, appreciation, birth, courage,
Form: Rhyme

The Beast

...Dawns light slithers in, and it scratches your soul

The days eviceration about to unfold

Your mind all a jumble, your flesh all a quake

And you wonder inside " How much more can I take"

W...

Categories: sallies, angst, faith, health, hope,
Form: Epic