After Snow Melt
...AFTER SNOW MELT
Their burden shed, trees now svelte -
Hidden beauties in luxuriant fir mantles
Stripped, sunning in balm light.
Grass, spruce, stream,
Once blank and touchless,
Crow...
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Categories:
skyful, snow,
Form: Free verse
Snowfire
...Small silver explosions
mob the expectant air like paparazzi’s flashes.
Soon, giant hydrangeas bloom fluorescent,
spread like a bouquet of slow-motion Big Bangs,
and are blotted by nigh...
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Categories:
skyful, beautiful, firework, flower, light,
Form: Free verse
Houdini Sleeps
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"Houdini Sleeps"
Somewhere in the dark night
all her words flew in scattered fright
like a skyful of black ink in white cloud covered plight
all murdered crows,
in sleepless vast...
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Categories:
skyful, dream, imagery, love, magic,
Form: Romanticism
Give Me Africa My First Love
...Africa is my home
I have no other home
For Africa I live for
Give me Africa to live
I will make her my soul.
Asia is not my home
For my blood is not theirs
I have no root there
Their roses ...
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Categories:
skyful, africa, art, august,
Form: Ballad
Winter Is Coming
...WINTER IS COMING
Dried leaf scratches its noisy way
Across my path.
Cat retreats deeper into the doorway
Out of the blistering wind.
Skyful of clouds, smell of snow.
Winter is coming....
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Categories:
skyful, winter,
Form: Prose Poetry
Day of the Bees
...Through her window,she could see nothing in the clear blue sky.
Its deep colour was reflected in the calm waters
Of the estuary which spread out in the distance.
Even the normal busy shipping tra...
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Categories:
skyful, war, people, rain, sound,
Form: Free verse