Short Rubied Poems

~Ice storm~
Pine boughs laying arms of jade on the ground
powerlines swinging like summer jump ropes
the avenues are littered with dirty diamonds
crystal sun harboring a warming wreath of hope.
Windchimes lie silent and lightly sweetened
a cardinal morphing into blown glass flame
his rubied beakon will mostly go unheeded 
say for the ferals and a shopping cart man....

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Silently she arrived 
on rain bowed streams, in shamrock eyes.
She filled the ponds and fluffed the blossom
stuffed milkweed pods with puffs of cotton.
She nudged chorus frogs from emerald dreams 
gifting rubied songs    to the forever-greens. 
She rouged away the last snow flake 
brushing pastel hues into robin eggs.
Then she humbly drifted far away
into the gilded heart of Etain....

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