Short Wetland Poems

wonderful wetland
bewitching blue damselflies 
photographer's eye...

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i bring home
the soul of wetland - 
muddy shoes

-- Souvenirs of Silence, Soman Gouda...

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under overcast sky
dead timber becomes nourished
render to wetland

Copyright © 2010  By Caryl S. Muzzey...

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wonderful wetland
bewitching blue damselflies 
luminous ballet




Pixabay image Hermunkoek...

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Will you read
the snow on the grass knitting
the big eyebrows

of moon at night
which will never know hidden
hands of a wetland ?

The tears implant
green circles on cheek.
Spring was coming back....

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like the silhouette
of  solitary
wetland reeds
I immerse my sadness
in a red sunset...

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AN EPITAPH

Here lies my curious cousin Robin Rand
He went to explore the weeds in wetland
Slipping trousers he clutched in hand 
Legs he couldn’t hold, sank in quicksand.

September 13, 2018...

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wetland water whirls
an ibis searches for crabs ~
foraging ballet

white feathers emerge
standing tall on bright pink stilts ~
bill crab prize displayed

grunts and cooing sounds
echo the wet marsh at dusk ~
ibis courting chant...

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High
above
rich wetland
a lone kestrel .

Patient death beating,
fixed in  measureless blue.

Elegant white swans swim through
rare grasses greeting migrating
geese sliding in with the setting sun.

Darkness falls, who will sing the requiem?...

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.
.
We walk passed the
wetland wash
in the sanctuary of birds
onto the beach.
.
We see the osprey mother
in her nest of branches
on top of famous
Target Rock;
.
and out in the sound,
the head of a black monster 
flickers back and forth 
below the moving surface....

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drought in the Amazon,
 the first time they say,
 wlth soul-life of millions of trees gone away,
 not there to pray for their watery keep, 
drought in the wetland,
not making oxygen to keep,
is this really ok, no bloody way,
a price way too steep...

re: Russell Sivey  "Natures Harmony"

Don Johnson...

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Grey vapour sated clouds extend their chain 
Of rainy bursts and torrents at a glance
The hoarse throat whine from canyons weren’t in vain
As green shoot tillers bow to circumstance 
Rush petals weave a chain of svelte romance
On river banks where oak beam timbres fall 
Coy sika deer among his peers may crawl
Beyond that wetland canvass oiled  at birth
An embryonic chain encodes its wall
With nascent human trails to cosmic mirth...

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as swallows land and swifts take flight
inside late noon’s last shards of light
the chill winds that descend on day
cause dense green swathes of reeds to sway
across the flooded vista’s ground
in harmony with nature’s sound
of shrills that echo through the air
from birds and insects everywhere
while stars with room to breathe and shine
light up a land divorced from time
to show the beauty and true worth
of life in balance here on earth....

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Fear usually gripped my nerves 
I dreaded broken bottles my heart perchance be served
To a wetland I could lose you
Little I thought of the deadwood 
Ready I to send to the urn any jostler
Alas the heart I guarded against the living,
had a suitor waiting at the great gulf course in the sky
I couldn't compete with his riz 
He snatched you with ease. 
All I have now are memories 
I am pained by your silence, Amy
Tell me you hate it where you are,please...

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As a boat  that loses  its course
    sans your love there is no route ,
    I am nobody, I am to be idle ...

    Without your angelic strength,
    I'm only a cold winter soul
    as someone who only knows hell
    and travel darkest wetland ...

    You are my finest illusion,
     you are the blood of my heart
     you are the lifeblood of my life ....

     Without you I am only agony,
      I'm  a sad way without joy
      with no arrival, no departure......

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