Short Northerly Poems

northerly blowing 
tumbling red, yellow and orange 
signals summer’s end...

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a spindly cedar
blown by the northerly wind...
winter's sun rise ...

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northerly March wind
rocks truck, whips American flag....
dandelions bloom  ...

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quivers in winter's 
chilling northerly brisk breeze...
bamboo cane hedgerow  ...

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northerly breeze bends
wild cherry tree's loaded limbs....
fat robins fill sky   ...

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northerly brisk wind
whips young plants at feed~seed store...
hope runs rampant  ...

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northerly breeze lay
heavy frost glistens in sunlight....
death  


Probably Haiku and Senryu mixed...

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A bitterly cold day entered.
Front gathered hard -- imagine jagged knives.
Looks more northerly, opined pundits,
Quite raw -- snow tires useful.
Very wondrous; xerophytes yearning zocalo....

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Spring foiled again by cold air
North westerly breeze unfair
Will the plants survive today?
Red ripe tomatoes soon come our way?  

Contest: LIND30 Rhyme
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke
Date: 04/09/2022...

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Silent One cool art
International poet
Lasting very tall
Elegant writes and poems
Northerly very bright star

Original kind
Nimble night so shining star
Enjoyable man


Acrostic Tanka & Senryu, in Andrea Dietrich terminology.
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stepping outside into the bright sun
the sound
hear it! geese headed 
north
while the star magnolia has 
only 
begun to open its swollen buds
and
more daffodils' blossoms appear
alas!
could not see any geese in a 
V
headed north
only the sighing of pines stirred
by northerly breezes
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Leaf Mold
Thoughts for 10-27-2016

Soon I’ll be viewing naked trees,
Leaves will lie inactive on the ground.
Moved only by a northerly breeze,
Often betrayed by a rustling sound;

Intermittently, as in years past, 
They’ll pause to relax awhile. 
That’s when I’ll blow, rake, and mulch,
Into my gardens compost pile;
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Lonely trees on lonely roadsides
In dusty paddocks scarce water to abide
A hot dry northerly blows from the red centre
Gives no relief from the summer’s measure

Kangaroos lie in the gum tree’s shade
Idling the long hours in a lazy escapade
An emu flock gathers slowly walking across the road
An ancient land in a tough abode.

©  Paul Warren Poetry...

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Early childhood footsteps found
On cliffs at sunset time,
Near rolling waves that spray and pound
At the end of foaming gold.

Resting in a rocky chair
While flights are heading Northerly,
I smell the ocean in the air
And watch the surging sea.

The wind it blows into my face
While gulls their courses take,
Calming as the stars appear 
And people wishes make....

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Don't ask lovely Star Magnolia
Nor blueberries' bell blooms
Japanese Magnolia won't tell
Lest quickly seasons assume

Who browned the awesome pink blossoms
Or turned camelia squishy
Was it the brown nervous squirrel
With his dancing tail swishy

It must have been Bobcats at night
Who climbed in blooming trees  
Then painted tips with brown markers
Not the northerly breeze


Maybe unfinished???...

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Northerly _ Breeze
Hollow_ Bamboo
Sings_ Sways
Dances_ Rocks
Zephyr_ Plays
Winter_ Tunes 

           Put these together;
                           And a bamboo wind chime hums . 

Form is called a Kenning..
This is my first. 
It is suppose to be two words per line. The words are suppose to be descriptive about what one is speaking. It is a riddle. It can be a metaphor for something as well....

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Twilight shadows sigh    

A breathless hush lingers in
whispered moments sent a’ flutter
upon warm horizons glowing
and a sapphire sky’s mist

afloat on northerly breezes,
delicate dandelion ripples
caress you softly
as twilight shadows sigh

and moonlight shimmers
illuminate the meandering path
where the two of us dream
of the forever we will share

Good night Soupers
Have a great weekend...

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As the northerly chill does blow
And Ginko's yellow leaves lay
Like oil paint orke upon the ground
I  wait for that moment of truth
That comes from above
Will my heart be glad that He spoke?
Or will it be ashamed _wearing sack cloth robe?

The red burgundy leaves of the Japanese Maple
Weep like blood longing for His arrival
As the gold of Japanese Magnolia turns to brown
Will it be on a day like today
When he calls come home my child?...

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Two are needed one will not do
Words can do up due to your hue
Only one can’t make a senryu

Shadows of your long eyelashes
Twinkling motives in those sea eyes
Asking me for fountain-splashes
Northerly wind from the old skies
Zen-like moment shines in stanzas 
After we put down our brown pen
Sometimes stars come down to join us 
________________________________________
July 22, 2016
Two Stanzas – Two Only contest
Sponsor : Broken Wings...

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Cover me with the haze of
Fragmented years,
Let me sleep through this autumn
Where rains greedily devour 
Dying leaves,
And streams flow into the rotten silence. 
 
Clothe me with the moss
Which grew in the wrinkles of the forehead,
Make me senseless for the cruel fingers of the northerly wind,
And the silver which dwells  
On Venus Hill,
 
Just leave my eyes naked
To count in them rings of the birch tree,
Which cut down
Our unmeasurable distance....

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Forms used: Haiku, Diamonte, and Limerick



buds bloom then wither
before fall welcomes winter ~
seasonal changes

spring
lush and green
flowers bud then bloom
summer heat cools in autumn
leaves tumble aground
long before winter's
snow

earth always seems to be reborn in spring
summer is the time when cicada sing
autumn leaves, burnished gold
northerly winds blow cold
snowflakes are crystal gifts winter will bring

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