Outlook
...when I last looked
snow sprawled in
like an embrace from a foreign world
outdoor walk suspended
by squabbles of sleeted wet
unappealing chords
of ice pellets that stand hair on edge
to coat a ...
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Categories:
sleeted, environment, february, march, snow,
Form: Free verse
Snowstorm
...grim starkness of snow
sturdy in its sleeted falling
willing a bleached landscape
a lushness
that chokes the rough field terrain
strides of power
as the fevered wind
spirals In an unexpecte...
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Categories:
sleeted, environment, january, snow, winter,
Form: Imagism
Becoming
...When the leaves fall,
I feel their green call to me
unto death.
Whispering that what was fresh
is no more.
I hear their silence, see their veins
weave through their becoming -
from brit...
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Categories:
sleeted, death, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Year Dwindling Down
...Apple cheeked autumn eyes bashful skies, as
Yellow frocked summer says her goodbyes to fragrant
Earth's seeded spring, to wild bouquets
Arranged by careless care, for the
Roses and daffodils to...
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Categories:
sleeted, flower, nature, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
The Morning
...The morning broke pragmatically
As the warmth kissed the dew goodbye.
And the thunder clouds who haunted nigh
Had fled and left an open sky.
Where an aged thrasher voiced a song of love
That rai...
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Categories:
sleeted, freedom, happiness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Pipe and Shovel
...In the outskirts of a dirt-laden country road
it snowed, hailed, sleeted, and again...it snowed.
Day and night, Mr. Snowman guarded the cozy homestead,
as the Jones', inside, slurped soup with hom...
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Categories:
sleeted, change, cool, fantasy, home,
Form: Rhyme
A Dream's Deadend
...I’m dancing on the boardline.
Forgotten distances leaving dust behind.
A sudden movement turned over the weel
a lifetime’s search remains dark and incomplete.
Joined lights shining over the sea...
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Categories:
sleeted, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Tutor
...The cutting edge of Fall
Shears the leaves from trees,
Exposing them as ramrod tall
Soldiers soon to freeze.
These warriors of wood
Battle with the gale
Defiantly they’re braced, and should
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Categories:
sleeted, nature
Form: Verse
Christmas Symbols
...November casts its leaves and days away.
The calendar’s last, best, page remains…
December. And our losses and our gains
Are summed across a sky of frigid grey
(Forgiving sins from some far Augu...
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Categories:
sleeted, holiday
Form: Sonnet
Christmas Symbols
...November casts its leaves and days away.
The calendar’s last, best, page remains…
December. And our losses and our gains
Are summed across a sky of frigid grey
(Forgiving sins from some far Augu...
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Categories:
sleeted, holiday
Form: Sonnet
Tutor
...The cutting edge of Fall
Shears the leaves from trees,
Exposing them as ramrod tall
Soldiers soon to freeze.
These warriors of wood
Battle with the gale
Defiantly they’re braced, and should
...
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Categories:
sleeted, nature
Form: Verse
Tutor
...The cutting edge of Fall
Shears the leaves from trees,
Exposing them as ramrod tall
Soldiers soon to freeze.
These warriors of wood
Battle with the gale
Defiantly they’re braced, and should
...
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Categories:
sleeted, allegory
Form: Verse