River Deep Mountains High
...RIVER deep MOUNTAINS high
A babbling burn
in feathered ferns
into rivers unseen
a stream
of
freshwater
clean
silts against
sloping banks
& current
slows into eddys
of
rivers
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Categories:
silts, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Zoetic Long-Legged Birds
...*Image of Flying Cranes by Pixabay.
Zoetic Long-Legged Birds
A crane flew down and stood still on its stilts,
their necks straighten in flights,
a heron too would stand i...
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Categories:
silts, bird, character, image,
Form: Rhyme
Running Free
...Winter melts
&seeps
deep below
permeates
cathedrals with snow
in spate
nature's blood
in flood
in moorland
gorse
new springs
become
...
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Categories:
silts, river, seasons, spring,
Form: Verse
Land of the Seven Suns
...' The gods' spake to all who had 'wide' ears...
but all they heard was Apollo's muse....'
How leavened my soul to search,
wooly and wild to the waxxen wind,
how swift my wi...
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Categories:
silts, heaven, hope, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Classicism
Inspired Thinking
...Inspired Thinking
Inspired, I’m thinking
I haven’t an inkling
From where it comes
And where it’s going.
Crawling from a rock
Laid down atop
Fossilized dream silts
Beneath the rivers of
M...
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Categories:
silts, dream, imagination, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Seven Slivers of Spring
...hedgerows greenup-
nature's pastiche
awakens from winter sleep.
Quiet greets the Spring morn,
a shaft of light diffuses night
snow melts slowly-
a trickle,unseen,runs free
begins a new s...
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Categories:
silts, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism
River Deep
...inspired by Ricks contest theme
Winter melts and seeps deep below,
permeates cathedrals with snow,then
in spate,nature's blood in flood .
A babbling burn in feathered ferns
to riverine unseen,...
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Categories:
silts, nature,
Form: Free verse
Stranded
...A raging river tenaciously floods
Tannins and silts combine to dark blood
A hut, just fifty metres, occupying their sight
Two men, cold and wearied, stuck for the night
An adventure all plan...
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Categories:
silts, adventure, earth, nature, success,
Form: Narrative
The Manchester Ship Canal - Part One
...Glancing down from breathless heights,
Amidst climey sighs,
The looming colossus awakens from slumber
And stretches across Thelwalls linear skies.
The hot engines hissing steam -
Recalled from f...
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Categories:
silts, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Mist Song
...The waves lick the pier-deck beams,
a boat has passed upon the lake
to shuffle the song upon the wind,
ebbing whooshes.....
The smoky waters still to tease
slow with ancien...
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Categories:
silts, beauty, music, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Land of the Seven Suns
...How leavened my soul to search,
wooly and wild to the waxxen wind,
how swift my wings though my fancy yearns,
catching sights amorous upon its brim;
The cradled seeds of creation
...
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Categories:
silts, creation, hope, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Ode a La Keats
...O burgeoning soul of sweet things
mellowed to summer's surge,
with autumn's dim appraisal
loitered to a final song of ditties,
the oozes of eve ferment
my fewest keen-felt pu...
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Categories:
silts, tribute,
Form: Ode
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
...Between a sky of pale blue, streaked with white,
and a glassy sea of royal blue,
there lies a land of lavender rock,
where wind blown grasses grow in briny
patches around weather beaten hous...
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Categories:
silts, placessky,
Form: Prose Poetry
River of Time
...The day flows by just like a slow moving river
washing over all in it’s path
carrying away the cares of those in need
of this moment in time.
Moving down and away forever
as far as you can s...
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Categories:
silts, lifeday, day, river,
Form: Prose Poetry
Running Free
...Winter melts and seeps deep below,permeates cathedrals with snow,in spate
nature's blood in flood .In moorland gorse new springs become a tumbling
source.A babbling burn in feathered ferns to riv...
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Categories:
silts, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
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