Ode to Autumn
...Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with appl...
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Categories:
sallows, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Winged Warrior Upon the Willows Course Part 2
...I ran towards the great giant, his limbs strong and green The two bottom-most limbs, where I would do my aerial trapeze! I'd grab the bottom on...
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Categories:
sallows, allegory, childhood, freedom, growing
Form: Free verse
Berwick - On - Tweed Market
...BERWICK – ON – TWEED MARKET
Cold, even in summer
Vast bastide hides the place.
Tweed widens and shallows:
Its sallows harbor salmon.
In the ancient market place
Sneaky ancient markete...
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Categories:
sallows, places
Form: Free verse
Glimpse of Heaven
...GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN
She once said, “Heaven is in my eyes,”
And to me it was a mystery what she meant
Until one dreary city day spent
As heavy rain poured from the skies
And then the sh...
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Categories:
sallows, world,
Form: Quatrain