Short Speckling Poems

speckling dark green pines
gifting the dark diamonds white
moonlit snowflakes lay
soft fabric for children's play
and knitted clouds on the roofs


26~12~2014
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Contest Name: A Quintain Christmas ...

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Allowing great alembics access over hill and glade and brush and dale of mind and swimming softly through the river running up fantastic meadows speckling valleys round the bay ensconced by lighting strikes and thunder booms across the Roman sky above the Irish ground and all throughout the savage peasant towns of lies of great and small import but all the time of luscious past and pregnant present and the future’s wide embrace of mighty life....

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Autumn in the leaves
Speckling change 
with crisping dew
when a season done
with green
(as earth's sky
paling blue)
putting to rest
the old
making way
for God's new;

I finger the age-spots...

other blemishes
nature's obvious rots--

preparing for 
again our spring
touching the ring
I still wear 
for cherish--
such vows
were never made
to perish

I rewrite, with death
we do not part

for no temporary 
a true heart.......

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she lingers,
     forever embedded in my memory,
          the most beautiful girl I’ve yet to behold.
the epitome of all things lovely:
     sunlight filters through the window,
          speckling her freckled face with golden sun,
in her flaming hair, 
     shimmering sunbeams,
          ethereal as that of an angel.
perfect and soft as a gently rolling stream,
     her voice caresses the air,
          with melodies comparable to nothing on earth....

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