Autumn
...Autumn
….. is mortally wounded!
It stumbles, tumbles
across the silken, rouged sky
quivering over rusted hedges
shivering through shouldered trees,
splattering, smattering
everything in bl...
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Categories:
smattering, autumn, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Blizzard Wizard
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To the skies...cries of have we sinned..the seasons spinned...winter grinned as before it’s really beginned...spring’s been sneakily binned..
That bitter wind does cheekily blow...delivers tingl...
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Categories:
smattering, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape
...Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape...
tell tale sign where
winter storm Demi left her mark.
Beautiful and bountiful visual scene
(seldom seen around
tri-state geographic area
fo...
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Categories:
smattering, adventure, allusion, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Primal Properties
...(19th century Tibetan Wangden rug)
Primal Properties
I look around at all the art I have collected
An assortment of inherited, home made and bought,
Ranging from African to Asian to Pe...
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Categories:
smattering, appreciation, art, creation, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mattering
...What does it mean to matter?
How do you get to matter more,
when your mattering takes
a battering at its core.
Do we want to matter in the moment,
or is it what we leave behind
that really ma...
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Categories:
smattering, pride, psychological, self,
Form: Free verse
Glower of the Heap and Holler
...Stepped out on the deck as rain begins, Wind.
This is NOT a Summer storm with rainbow peaks.
Sans rescindment, the tip of the iceberg is here.
Leaves tickled by playful drops, flirtation of pettin...
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Categories:
smattering, weather,
Form: Free verse
Dump Trump The demagogue Hitler reincarnate!
...Dump Trump - The demagogue Hitler reincarnate!
Countdown to Armageddon
precariously, lugubriously, hellaciously,
and deleteriously hinges
potential apocalypse now outcome,
mere smattering w...
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Categories:
smattering, america, anger, autumn, evil,
Form: Free verse
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
...The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder
As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incr...
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Categories:
smattering, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Magic
...“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”
—Sara Coleridge
Winter Magic
Something wholly bright
outside my window. What a sight!
Crisp, fallen, new.
Oh! ...
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Categories:
smattering, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived
...Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived
Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth...
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Categories:
smattering, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Passing Underneath a Railway Bridge
...She seemed oblivious to the smattering of lightly falling rain;
He holding her hand...and as much as his very life should
Depend upon this. ...
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Categories:
smattering, love,
Form: Rhyme
Love Letters Beneath the Moonlight - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
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My love for you
is beyond prophecy or endowment
and lay before you a love letter from the heart
beneath the moonlight's glow
where our eyes find a silent understanding
that embraces each passi...
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Categories:
smattering, beauty, desire, destiny, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Love Letters Beneath the Moonlight a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
...My love for you
is beyond prophecy or endowment
and lay before you a love letter from the heart
beneath the moonlight's glow
where our eyes find a silent understanding
that embraces each passion...
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Categories:
smattering, beautiful, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pantoum On Writing Poetry
...Your own unique voice. You’re your own boss.
Sprinkle of humble and profound words.
Speaking in tongues that often crisscross.
Ink takes flight as experiential and seasonal birds.
Sprinkle of h...
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Categories:
smattering, poetry, writing,
Form: Pantoum
Whar Art Thou Dame of My Dream
...Whar art thou dame of my dream?
Eagerness readily overtakes me prior
to succumbing to nightly slumber.
Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed
adrift abed invariably occurs counting b...
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Categories:
smattering, absence, addiction, allusion, angel,
Form: Rhyme
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