Sing Spring
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Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees.
Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds.
Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to search on ...
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Categories:
scampering, butterfly, imagery, rainbow, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Conquered, Part I
...She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains,
had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained,
fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw,
scramblin...
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Categories:
scampering, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
When Summer Rain Came
...“Unexpected wind and rain may come into our lives. But there’s hope that the downpour will wash away our soul’s dusty stains” ~ By Poet
On a sunny day, as pedestrians moved along pavem...
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Categories:
scampering, nature, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
Lost Paradise
...Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden, then they started eating meat
Away from plentiful fruits and vegetables, they started a fleshly retreat
Unwittingly sliding down Jacob''s ladder
Man f...
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Categories:
scampering, bible, fruit, garden, health,
Form: Free verse
The Lone Tree
...The Lone Tree
The autumn day had been muffled up
in thick scarf and rainproof jacket
until darkness, countryside darkness,
clambered gradually over the horizon;
silence, stillness obediently a...
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Categories:
scampering, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery
...Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery...
lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace,
where dark shadows eclipse edge of night
indistinguishable from the twilight zone.
Within the Int...
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Categories:
scampering, analogy, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
SCAREDY CAT
...Scaredy cat
Scaredy cat scaredy cat
She runs away inside,
Halloween is drawing near
And she only wants to hide.
To be a proper witches cat
She really must aspire,
But she curls up just li...
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Categories:
scampering, cute, halloween, mystery, myth,
Form: Rhyme
signs of autumn
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scampering squirrels
forage for little acorns
swallows all fly south
wizened leaves falling
pirouetting down to earth
log burner blazes
carpet of dead leaves
beautifies th...
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Categories:
scampering, autumn, nature,
Form: Haiku
CHILDHOOD
...The campering, tampering, scampering
and running of little legs and feet
toddlers jumping off the porch
and in handheld holding Snickers™ bars
eating chocolate treats
stomach ca...
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Categories:
scampering, 1st grade, appreciation, candy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
SUMMER PLACE-
...Fresh cut grass smells of watermelon
Colors spotted winged butterfly rainbow
Beautiful colorful wings
Evanescence all the times that remain
Crisp and clean fresh is the morning do...
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Categories:
scampering, allusion, analogy, childhood, children,
Form: Dramatic Verse
SIMPLE SPIDER STORY
...SIMPLE SPIDER STORY
Palsy poison spider
bickering, binding, biting
sparring, stinging, scampering
creeping in crevices cocooned
coded crooked cock-eyed
Here, there, everywhere
Scorpion...
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Categories:
scampering, 12th grade, analogy, color,
Form: Alliteration
Truth and Light
...When the light comes on, roaches will scatter
Scampering for the nearest crack, crevice or hole
When gossip comes to a deaf ear, there's an abrupt stop to all chatter
Expeditiously in comes the ju...
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Categories:
scampering, dark, integrity, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Rainbow Bridge Church
...Book One: Ancestors of the Ark
Ch.1: Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill
In a quiet little village far away from here, lives a Minister ...
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Categories:
scampering, animal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
The Picture
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All day the world has waited
for me to come and rest here,
to welcome me into a picture
it has composed with people
walking their dogs along
the water's edge and the wide,
seaweed strewn be...
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Categories:
scampering, beach, sunset, world,
Form: Free verse
The Hungry Stones III
...In scarce a week the place began to weave
A weird fascination upon me,
Nigh hard to bear, harder still to believe,
I felt as if a dragon from a sea
Was slowly digesting me in tight noose,
A...
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Categories:
scampering, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
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