Shriveling Poems - Poems about Shriveling

Dandelion Dreams

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the dandelion weeps
as a summer sun melts away
each dewdrop, 
reflecting the morning
winds resolving to accompany
the hesitant chirps,
songs of hope, of grace
feelings whispering
to...

Season Change

...The house is colder now
  as autumn sheds its leaves
  the push-pull  falls wildly beneath the plows
  along the edges of the gutters and eaves.
perhaps because the house is emptied
  of all the...

Right

...We smile the most, but
they are the happiest.
And we look the best, but
they are the prettiest.
And we talk the most, but
they are the only ones having a conversation.

All is a lie, 
what ap...

What the Mind's Eye Sees

...Letters congeal, to words.
Words anneal to sentences,
which tell a story,
painted as images,
imagined in the mind's eye,
trying to emulate what
the eye sees briefly,
on the see-saw.

A glint...

Macabiloquent Mastery

...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...

Title 3, Earth

..."Those who contemplate the beauty of the
earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." Rachel Carson

Even a  dead leaf caught up in bare branches
can seem beautiful to...

Artificial Intelligence

...So, Artificial Intelligence can now write poetry
(I think I may dislike this)
We have similar thoughts
Its words are lovelier
Rhyme or free verse
hundreds of synonyms.

It can also paint beaut...

Post Halloween

...A unicorn's horn,
tattered and torn,
a half eaten Hershey's,
2 crushed candy corn.
The tiniest bat wing,
mummy's white sling,
skeleton's femur,
spider web string.
Witch’s silk hat,
yawn from...

Felt Like Six Hundred Twenty One

...dandelions were stretched out along the roadside spent
wild lavender thistles were shriveling into brown stalks
we had no air in our car, it felt like we were in a sauna
the first few seconds were...

Trust In Those Who Know

...Too many know
what they don't know
certain of it – 
have faith in others
knowing even less
but think they know
more – 
a bunch don't care to know
not wishing to do any
of the heavy lifting
...

Mountain Meaning V - Autumn Storm

...In the twilight autumn storm
Trampoline trees still green in the wind
Roared like oceans crashing a beach

Hail bouncing on their vinyl backs

Leaves shriveling in electric flames
Whipped from...

The Dishes

...She rose from the table moving slowly to the sink. This was not her favorite time, too much time to think.  Her body moved from memory now, the right bit of dish detergent, she must refill that bottl...

Serenade of Fall

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Shades of leaves wavering from mauve to ember
colour my lavender spirits in days of November.
When lustrous autumn blankets silently reap,
my glorious desires in ecstasy drench me ...

Delirium

...*Image of Stakeout On Dope Street Withdrawl by Warner.

Delirium

I stepped in
yesterdays cold
that babbled through
a rosed mist,
its clammy waters
rallied the shal...

Sickening

...7/9/20
"Sickening"

This is sickening
And quickening
Not at all, what I was envisioning
Nobody listening
Most chickening
Fidgeting
And limiting
Themselves to the point of being crippling
T...

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