Short Hillocks Poems

Let’s dress up in green! It’s a cinch!
You don’t have to cover each inch.
We’ll dance on green hillocks
among all the shamrocks!
Come on or I’m going to pinch!

3-7-21...

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I
Teeth sparkle, need care
Green hillocks under speckled sky
Profile picture dazzles

II
Weekend morn, but at dawn
I see brighter reds, rising hues
She sleeps: shalom rest...

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meandering
hills and hillocks
the autumn orb
casts its golden glow
across paved paths
the ones less traveled
circumnavigating
childhood memories
borrowed backroads
in the sinews of my heart



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on August 19, 2020...

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"Help me find the little bouncy pearl", granny urged
"rolled right through my enclosing palm
jumping the rolls and hillocks of the blankets
into the darkness under this bed!"
I scoured each nook and shadow to recover
the little bouncy pearl—the cod-liver oil pill!

Written on 06/05/2016 for Nette's contest "The Best of 6"
Visual #3...

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The tines of the rake
comb through a dispersing blow.

Some heaps hold, 
ocher clumps form random hillocks,
most slip through the iron teeth
dancing drunkenly away.

I was called out into the rushing air.
Physical work with the dead and dying
is indeed a calling.

Meanwhile the dead keep falling; 
my arms shake a cerecloth
into the vivid swirls of an afterlife....

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Layer by furry layer, 
The deer carcass 
Dissolves into the infinite
Returns to the radiance
It came from.
 
Dazzled by the Sun, I drive
Taking in the sunny salted freeway
Brilliant mile by brilliant mile,
Air pristine by icy hillocks,
Engine singing on all fours
And my license plate’s my name.

Who has the better 
Perspective on the radiance:
Me, 
or 
The deer?
 
Milind Padki...

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How rhythmic is the silence
Of them that await their doom?
How melodic is their woe?

While hearts blossom
And remember with gratitude
The resplendent surge
Of their first conception

While convicts of our longing
Fish with the golden roe
The majesty of our history-
Committing acts of desecration

A stern righteous voice
Clad in beauty and ecstasy
Comes leaping upon hillocks:
Promising eternity beyond our dreams!...

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The tines of the rake
comb through a dispersing tumble.
Ocher clumps form random hillocks,
most slip through the iron teeth
dancing drunkenly away.

I was called into the rushing air.
Physical work with the dead and dying
is a ‘calling’ isn’t it?

The newly deceased keep falling.
Maple leaf bones crackle underfoot.
I scoop their remains,
brush an autumnal cerecloth,
shake the dead into swirls of afterlife....

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Desert Carnival
Yoga Phenomenal
Camel Fair
Valor Prayer
Harvest Festivals
Sea Surfing Technicals…
?
Winter starts
With ice, fine arts
Sunshine days blaze
With atmospheric haze...
?
Rainbow-colors poured
On earth-sky canvas as an accord
All five elements glitter.
As though no counterfeiter
Hillocks in immodest green
Present an ecologically rich scene
?
Thrill fills the zeitgeist
In the earth-weather tryst
?
Xing
Xanadu
...

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A trip to Wales 

I was driving among hillocks; the landscape was green
it was spring and sheep-dipped in coal dust, grazed 
with their offspring
Parked near a pub in a hamlet, it had a name
I could not get my tongue around it and enter
into a dark interior.
The few customers ignored me yet eyed me 
perhaps they thought I was English looking to buy a cottage.
I drank powder coffee in a sea of Welshness
my foreignness disturbed me
 and the locals.
I left....

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Howe great are your lofty peaks, amongst hillocks traced

Free from foes and frauds , ink my ridges with love and freehand

Ones tail whips round between valleys deep, creating a landscape, a mighty sweep

Lancers move forward and runty stays close, for those wagers upon us will judge us the most

Ego and IDs freeze at first glance , six nations armies forlorn and entranced

Exit the summit, bring down the gate for thine has the power to command check mate....

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