Short Sleekly Poems

waiting for enraptured flight
the bird now spreads its wings
soaring high above the clouds
now quickly out of reach

above the fields of corn and bean
across meadows of sweet clover
just a speck to the bare eye
sun shines sleekly on her feathers...

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KILLER

Saturnine sleeper of the night,
Soaring slowly, out of sight,
Sleekly shadowing the gloom,
Silent harbinger of doom,
Innocent assassin, surreptitious, sly,
Stainless scandal slipping by,
Scything swiftly through the dark,
Hark the herald warning: Shark....

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You think I expected you
To know my ways
To comprehend and construe
And like my style.

I never did
Have such expectations

Oh incomprehensible ways 
Sleekly complicated

Who can predict the ways
Of a young lad with maidens?
My life is a young lad
And also maidens.

And I will not suffer you
To comprehend....

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The lake is surrounded by burnt orange grass that bends.The sparse light rain drops
make perfect circles on the glassy dark water 

that widen until they sleekly disappear. 
The lake mirrors the late Fall afternoon: 
dried-apricot clouds from which peek 

a chilled though soft blue. 
A worn trodden campsite 
is next to a shiny varnished house 

with windows that portray 
the wet sand colors of the docks, 
and the sun-light shifting the sky, 

as an oil painting of an aging day....

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