Fractious feline
sensuously stretching,
languorously lying,
soporifically slumbering
(monocularly monitoring).
Meandering mouse!
Tail twitching...
tautly tensing...
Predatory pounce!
Salubriously surfeit!
February 6, 2020
I am spring
Winter is my precursor
And summer my predecessor
Just when you think
Winter is insurmountable
I sprout, spring forth with gusto
Ravaging your cranium with rose,
Dazzling your eyes
With lilies, silver and red maples
I saturate your log holes
With early morning and late afternoon songs
From pine, hooded warbler and vesper sparrow
I evoke fresh rain from the sky,
Misty mornings and warm weather
I release plants from winter's brutal hold,
Vacate deep snow, ice sheets and gray skies
I bequeath your environment with
Beautiful butterflies, lady bugs
And just as your smiles are getting wider,
I dissipate salubriously
Leaving you with harsh realities of summer
I am spring
Flakes as silent satin
Sail down salubriously
Dissipating into stupefaction
Hitherto ramming clay
They were the forlorn harbingers
Before a cataclysm of sposh
Burst through the firmament
Like a derailed locomotive
Besmirching any implement in ambit
The innocuous sniff of sposh
Vilifying my cranium
As with a burst of gore
Revivifying to the hub
After an interlude of rhythmic diminution and distend
A rapturous ardor of splendor
Garnering me into a frosty sphere
Of flakes and satin
Methinks it snows.
Within opulent oblivions of misconceptions
We lay the dormant dreams of redirections
Factitiously falling into the antagonizing abyss
Relinquishing the love we misguidedly miss
In search of illusions of celestial spheres
Vacant voices voided within emptying ears
Still, I’m falling through jaded judicial jells
Where baleful beasts show us hidden hells
In corrosive corners of our inner dark
We spot a pinhole of a sedulous spark
Thus we salubriously stand thundering tall
For we shall not fatuously faultlessly fall.
May.16.2017
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Deep rooted longings in the heart,
Emphatic and obdurate in temper,
Salubriously nurture the imperial thoughts,
Intripid expressions are bound to stay,
Realistic approach will shape them true,
Endless efforts await in optimism,
Solace to desires abode is inevitable !!
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