Short Georgian Poems

Georgian Country

this is a woman land
round and curved
all breast, hip and thigh
a Rubens reclining nude
strong, full figured and fertile....

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Cucumbers, celery and stem-vine tomatoes
were hobnobbing with my Russett potatoes.
Pears and plums and one Georgian peach
winked at the Wisk and Snuggled the bleach.
Pretzels and popcorn and the Tostitos chips
ogled in awe as Meyer's bacon strips stripped!
Mr. Clean and Mrs. Dash espied a risqued art - 
when double-clipped coupons tainted the cart!...

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On the Georgian Bay 
A town Tobermony
Visitors venture
To tour on the bay

Always a line up
For this special site
On this distinctive
      boat
The tour is different

All the sites to see
Are on the bottom
Of the Georgian Bay
Because of shipwreck

Of the past years ago
Are seen on the glass
     bottom boat
The history of the past...

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Home

the place where my roots
hold to the very centre of the earth
yet wander beyond 
the edges of the universe


made of tree and rock
pounding georgian surf.
shared with loon and goose and wolf,
seasoned through seasons turning,
cradled, I flourish find words, 
held fast here in time and space.


I have eaten from the earth,
my tears and joys fallen into its soil.
our substances intertwined
we know sisterhood....

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Restoring far-off times, 
With stilted, Georgian rhymes,
He tried repealing Fate
Two centuries too late.

And when he saw the worth 
Of poems dead at birth,
He turned his pen to write
Strange fantasies at night.

Then when the morning came,
He signed his unknown name.
To one more priceless page
Forgotten by his Age.

Forgotten, all except
For friends who paid their debt
By publishing him till
His fame no Fate can kill....

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Shattered glass

The glass all shiny
Stands almost invisible
Filling a gap to form a window
In the old Georgian house
Letting you see the wonder beyond
The shiny pane of glass.
Until one day
It begins to fall apart
Looking dull and broken
As slowly it crumbles
Piece by piece
The glass shattering cascading down
Resembling a ferocious waterfall,
As you roll away
Being washed by waves of glass
Tumbling down, swept away
Like shattered glass...

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