Short Cheerier Poems

April's buds
  awaken

  propped up
  on a tree branch

a lighter, cheerier green...

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Could never live in an isolated area
No people around what could be eerier
Hustle and bustle
Without a muzzle
Is what I need to feel much cheerier...

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March- that month that marches in-
     forceful sometimes in her spin,
pushing Winter out to bring
     return of warmer, cheerier Spring!


March 6, 2022

~2nd Place~
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Contest: March In
Judged: 03/13/2022...

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Listen to poem:

Our little stream flows
but a trickle most days
but rises, runs, today --
all busy energy.
Its perky
change of pace
does not match 
my current cast of face.
Still, this steady
slow drizzle
has its damp uses --
laving dusty leaves
to clean and shiny green.
I am not thankful
for gray skies --
they bring no joy
as bright sunshine might...
only sober, quiet periods
for reflection
unaffected by the colors
of cheerier weather....

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Death of a Brother
Written: by Tom Wright
March 2015

His sun slipped below the horizon,
Leaving naught but an achromatic sky,

As thoughts submerged in time before, 
Once abeyant, now dance;

The voice of one since passed,
Drums my ears like Sage Hens at sunset;

While I press to remember cheerier times,
Of days replete with laughter,
My thoughts continue, draped in regret.

Attention being ever focused,
On where we were, not where he is.
...

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