ITTY BITTY SONG
Snip snip red hair
A pretty pretty long
Snip snip auburn light
While I sing this
Itty bitty song
Reveals a pale moon
So round o round
It reflects the pool
O round howdy hum
I hardly hear a sound
Thistles and cordial bristles
Grow out and downward
Flow in red sea waves
With an itch and a scratch
From side to sideward
Kim Rodrigues ©2017
Categories:
sideward, hair,
Form: Verse
Before the mid night,
Under the elms beside my cottage
I stood still wet by the gentle falling rain, watching it drenching the nature reserves.
Where the gentle breeze from the cold touching my eyes lovely, closing in the mild feeling of the open heaven.
Then i dreamt, in my dead i dreamt
In my dream i saw, a waiver bird
Laying egg on a sycamore tree. I moved nearer to wish her well
Tis was a frightened call i heard ,in a feminine voice i heard
I knew she call my name , in a language i knew not
She spokes into my head.
I woke up in a cold sweat
My staggering self saw nothing but a dancing flame blowing away my cold
While it rain still yet the flame dancing without a trace of its heat.
Frightens! i move sideward for exit, then i heard a song : a soft and sounding song of a songbird
Singing a preach of a sermon of divination
Telling nations the need to repent
Ringing loud unto every ears that hear.
Categories:
sideward, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
It’s Autumn weather, geese fly by,;
Autumn rust,red,gold,so gay
Drystone walls edging fields,
Apples gathered,holly berries
Flash so brightly
Look like flowers
Sun shines sideways,shadows long
Of trees appear.I dwell among
Woods of gentle beeches sing
Swaying with the sideward wind.
See their roots, all intertwined.
Feel their geometry in the mind.
Look up now into the sky,
See the V formation high.
Geese fly home at end of day.
My heart is moved by patterned dance
In this peace and great silence
My mind widens like the sky
And in this moment I would die,
So I would stay with this still vision
Of geese set out on autumn mission.
Snails in rain pools slither near
My feet upon the terrace here
And look,upon their whorled backs
All the sense of life is packed.
And yet so easily Life’s destroyed,
When blind foot steps into the void
Categories:
sideward, allegory, beauty, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
it only takes a sideward
glance
to see you wave; my
peripathetic mind
takes in that sight of you.
pain is but a stroke of luck
and the decency of the hour
id just a sideward glance that reminds
me of my nature
today i awoke with the consuming
knowledge that i would
abhor every passing minute
you, so far up there, and i,
alone...
it makes me wonder, such a
distressing thought,
if by any chance you think of me too.
Categories:
sideward, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Kentucky Girl
Passing meadows lush with grass
Rail fences painted white
Stretching off toward distant hills
I observed an remarkable sight
She was a Kentucky girl
Bred from champion stock
Proud and beautiful to see
From head down to fetlock
Her body was magnificent
Sixteen hands in size
A shiny, rippling chestnut coat
White blaze between her eyes
I could see she was a yearling
She had not yet been shod
A girl still basking in her youth
Pawing at the sod.
It seems she liked to flirt with me
By ignoring my advance
Then moving down the rails a bit
Giving me a sideward glance
She would not let me get too close
Though she had no fear of me
Perhaps she thought I’d harness her
She just wanted to be free
Much time has passed since I saw her
And admired her gentle face
But I know I was just born to watch
While she was born to race
Placed 4th in Carol Browns A Horse Story
Categories:
sideward, animalsme,
Form: Rhyme
This was to be their first, grand journey.
Who would dare believe?
Sarah Maple, and Ol’ Bear
Her special, robot teddy!
Both, strapped inside Securely;
Await a lifetime ride;
Her heart is jumping, as
Her nine-ish, choc’ late eyes grow wide.
Fear mixes with Excitement;
Humility with pride;
When she realizes she’s
Histories first starfolk child.
Soon, they would be riding,
Fiery, rolling, thunder, cloud
above the humid dawn. Destination:
International Space Station.
Then, tucking one loose lock of
Coal-black hair behind her ear;
Glances sideward to Ol’ Bear…and gulps.
He gives one soothing wink to Sar. She smiles.
Then, hanging on
For all they’re worth,
They soon are floating
High, above the earth.
Categories:
sideward, adventure, space, visionary,
Form: Narrative
Old Traveler steps out mighty proud
As we watch him paw and prance.
His rider, sitting poker straight,
Casts not a sideward glance.
In uniform immaculate
And saber at his side,
Old Bobby Lee looks every inch
Virginia's joy and pride.
We seasoned soldiers along the way
Send up our bravest cheers,
Although our hearts are sagging
And our eyes are dimmed with tears.
We followed him to hell and gone,
Through battles, lose and win.
And even now, without a word,
We'd follow him again.
For four long years we bled and died,
And cursed, and killed, and burned,
But now we've reached the bitter end,
Humiliation learned.
Our rifles, shocked like autumn corn,
Await the boys in blue.
We sons of Dixie gave our all;
There's nothing left to do.
Now Lee, he rides to meet with Grant,
On this black, April day;
To offer up his shining sword
And sign the South away.
Categories:
sideward, history, people, social, autumn,
Form: I do not know?