Short Upriver Poems

Eagles fly

Minds soar

While Eagle flies
soaring off ahead
echoing upriver cries
to where s/he became
back before

Egged on
Eagles fly

Fertile minds soar......

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crane flows over the water
ripples with forks upriver,
a kiss of a daffodil mirage
the flower's fleeting visage.

in the gust of a hurricane,
a pumpkin ornamentation
batters a door of a stranger,
they answer, but no one is there.

it did happen....

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August heat used to send us to the river
to fish
in the scorching heat we would go 
stand under the trees
maybe swim
then move upriver
I'd bait the hooks
the boys were babies
and we'd fish
mud up to our knees
brown from so much summer sun
and starving for dinner....

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It's  rough 
          and tumble,
life's frenetic 
          race,
we stumble 
          and struggle
to outrun 
          a whirlwind,
leaving moments
          as specters
of the past,
          grasping
at shadows
          and chasing 
fading dreams
          upriver
in time's 
          relentless 
stream.
...

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The northern wind catches me and takes me upriver
I repose for a bit next to teensy startled minnows
She returns for me and flicks me up into the sky
I am light and lithe, unhurried, unworried, and we are off.

You are so lucky! A prissy prim violet calls to me as I pass. 
I do not understand floral, so I stick out my chin a bit.
Wind whispers against the leaves as we head through forest of oak. 
I am on the road again, my heart singing, wishing for another eagle....

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