Short Southward Poems

flying southward bound
gods v honking overhead
winter cold persues...

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Southward bound flying
Snowflakes stretch in hyper-drive
Anakin and Luke...

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southward wing on wing
geese chase the fading sun -
children fly with them...

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maple trees blaze red
geese soar southward overhead . . .
October’s rising...

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Saw where the Sun Sat,
Will start on it's move Southward,
I'll check as days pass....

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As sunburned skies kiss August goodbye, on molten wings southwards they fly...

09/09/20...

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Glowing ember in the East
With poking rays
That lose themselves
In mist beyond the hills....

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southward bound flying
in shape of a boomerang ~
will return in spring 

written November 26, 2022...

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storm clouds threaten rain
breeze moves them swiftly southward
drought unabated

written June 18, 2021...

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It goes from Fern Rock
to Pattison Avenue
The Broad Street Subway
That's where Philadelphians
travel southward to the games.
...

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WINTER WARNING 

early morn honking
city folk, surprised, look up
wild flock southward bound

through the morning fog
street lights cast an eerie glow
distant formation...

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Spooling southward on shattered wing-
I ache to fold from life’s cruel sting! 
(I’d rather die, than say goodbye)
Because I can’t repent this suffering

(A reinvention of 'No Assembly Required')...

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flocks of geese flying
remind of the life cycle
survival of the fittest
arrowheads pointing
southward in a migration
birds wiser than we, you see.

written October 11, 2021...

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Bare Weeping Willows
Graceful exposed limbs drip tears
Lake filled to its brim

Eerily fog coats isle's trees
Who sigh for birds southward flown 

Sponsor: Nathan_______~~D
Contest: Tanka(season)...

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Speckled starlings sing with delight
over flying ants in nuptial flight

I watch a swift swoop and pass
above an old meadow ,lush with grass

My fingers reach to touch that sky
where swallows circle,then southward fly...

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summer
butterflies
saunter along
fluttering southward
on tropical breeze to
Costa Rican sun
inviting them
to escape
winter

edited June 26, 2021
for "Ninette" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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Autumn once again is here.
The air is crisp and cold.
Leaves from trees fall aimlessly,
their colors bright and bold.

Canadian Geese are southward bound.
Trees will soon be bare and shorn.
The harvest moon is beaming bright.
Looks like Summer died and Autumn's born!...

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The picture of an iceberg gives me a chill
A glacier slowly drifting southward a shiver
Why is it, for me, the cold is more than an ill,
And thoughts of winter make my lips quiver.

written December 1, 2021
"Bite Size Poem No. 37" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Line Gautheir...

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like the winter bird
often longing to be heard
I await the sounds
~
I await the sounds
of the deep swallows calling
robins and duck fly
~
on their way southward
winter winds comes it's now cold
now flow where it's warm


12/29/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019...

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Savannah, pretty city of the South
Where I spent half a day of my life
Eating your delicious bread 
Mixing the smoke of my pipe 
With your warm air
Riding in carts pulled by big ambulatory horses
Pissing in your sewage
And wending even more 
Southward
You left behind 
A shining point 
On the turning trajectory 
Of my life...

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The weatherman is predicting rainbows
As this early autumn storm passes by
A few more weeks to enjoy the warmth
Before southward the geese start to fly...

I savor his words this fall evening
As I watch the pink clouds in the sky
The world could use a bit of soft color
Knowing soon the last faded rose will die....

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Summer slips slowly, sullenly southward
Together the terns try taking their turns
Under unusually ubiquitous umber umbrellas
Versatile velocity verified via villagers
While winter welcomed withering weather.

HONORABLE MENTION
written October 7, 2021
"Alliteration and Assonance" Contest
All Poetry - October 11, 2021...

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AUTUMN SCENE

Something framed within tells an autumn scene
Though grass be still green
Flowers yet bloom in lively color
A lonely bush flaps the protective white house siding
Southward leans
And o’er the rooftops
Clouds blown dizzy in confusion
Race against the Moon
Billow such far away grays
That something contained within
Tells of autumn days...

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Today, on 2/2/22
The snow is melting fast.
The river’s rushing southward
As some police boats hurry past.

My bench is dry; I’m sitting
In a little patch of sun,
A respite I’ll enjoy until
The cold’s once more begun.

A date with all those 2’s occurs
Just once, but some will see
A matching one with 3’s, but oh,
How ancient I will be!...

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The squawk of the geese high above
Southward bound to another love

Now misty and chilly comes the breeze
My lost seasons of time are teased

Twisting the first autumn leaves about 
Entangles my thoughts into doubt 

Watching the children grow and leave
Are cordial captions for all achieved

I'm the changing season progresses
Into dimensional time transgresses...

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