Sloughs Poems - Poems about Sloughs

... “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I I weep by a stardust shore......

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...The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie Like a humane huntress, she (the anthropomorphized storm) brought a spate of cool Autumn like temperatures and gentle soothing rain here within my ......

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...What a beaut! My mind silently, hopefully aspires, As you made me terribly perspire, I am now having troubles to respire. What a healing! As my heart cried for your uncommon love, I was heale......

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...A snaking mouth sloughs two spines, the rattle of small vertebrae and delicate teeth. A woman learns to ride them, feels the trombone slide of a dragon’s tail. A man lifts tugging fingers, ......

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...Behold the beast, wandering in astral night From dark caverns he emerges by starlight to quaff nectar from his ambrosia chalice. A leering creature with evil eyes of malice. What nefarious thou......

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...Saturday, September 23, 2023 Coincides with first day of fall and Autumnal equinox for said year, where colorful splash kindled like tinder. After I riff flecked about thee August Autumn E......

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...Autumnal equinox 2022 - Thursday, September 22 in Northern Hemisphere 9:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time Empyrean découpage citadel betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival nine oh three post meridia......

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...Center>Blooms bow their heads in their terracotta bomb-shelters. Distant thunderstorms nibble at thin, bare-boned stems. At last rain falls out of a booming air. Yesterday nailed its skin to t......

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...Autumnal equinox 2020 - Tuesday, September 22 (at 9:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time) Empyrean découpage citadel betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival nine thirty one ante meridian chariot of fire e......

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...A hazelnut breeze awakens us To another day in the show no one signed up for From an accidental scream Or selfish architects of love Rained out Silver skies that block the sun Do others cry w......

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...The moonlight fades from flower and rose And death will come to all of those When its silvery sheen sloughs off its light To carry the world into the dead of night. Yet once they stood both young......

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...Should I, mere a rabbit of sand, shiny hair, sport a shock of fur mired in clay, they from gofer mounds, propped on to peer, would sound warning through the sun glades and sleep grotto shades. ......

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...A snaking mouth sloughs two spines; the rattle of vertebrae. A woman learns to ride them, feels the trombone slide of a dragon’s tail. A man lifts on tip-toe not wanting to fumble. They k......

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...To cross him was ill advised; No bigger a man on this earth ever lived. Storyteller, hunter, fisherman and farmer, known to all simply as Parmer. His days were early, his nights late. A poor f......

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...The wind, careless in its airy freedom, Feverishly furrows the prairie grass. With a cry like a lost spirit, it winds And wails through leafless trees and toothless fence To vent its eager force ......

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