Trit Trot the Rider Is Arriving
...oh wow sir george claremdon on a horse. trit trot.
A ninety nine nonsensical length of a trumpet voicing face facing west and east is a coastal cavity of dimensional spaces. It appears that even i...
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Categories:
shrikes, adventure,
Form: I do not know?
Diurnal Diversity
...The warm spring rain still falls on the cherry trees,
pelting on the sodden and drooping *lavender lilies...
forming a small lake, where playful robins
bathe and fend off the thrusting, thirsty sh...
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Categories:
shrikes, children, funny, happiness, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Adirondacks Ode
...Climb high these mountains
And meet cliffs of history
Snug against the moon
Cold lover's warm kiss
Caress each syllable of song
Love makes joy exist
Adirondacks mist
The milk of mothering...
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Categories:
shrikes, nature, satirejoy,
Form: Haiku
Feeling Alone In the Wild?
...That love of nature
made me eagerly explore
everything that was truly beautiful;
and hiking in those dense woods,
its secret wasn't to be kept...
I had no name for the wild-flowers,
only for th...
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Categories:
shrikes, nature
Form: Narrative
Birds Bathe In the Spring Rain
...They came in by the thousands and landed
on the gleaning grassland...
to take a bath in the spring rain so scented,
and they don't seem, the least, bothered;
by the raindrops falling at a regul...
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Categories:
shrikes, animals, nature, places, rain,
Form: Free verse
The Sorrowful Forest
...The arid forest's grounds
are paved with dry and riddish leaves
that the whimsical wind loves
to take off the shivering sages!
Whoever hears the cries of the ravens
is a soul that sympathiz...
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Categories:
shrikes, mystery, nature, places, seasons,
Form: Free verse
While the Poet Dreams
...The golden leaves fall off
the cherry trees groping
on the steep cliff,
the tall marabous lament...diving
in dark, shallow waters
their racous cry announce
the arrival of winter on the reef.....
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Categories:
shrikes, animals, people, pets, places,
Form: Narrative