A Simple Pleasure
...A Simple Pleasure
A simple pleasure in simple lines
Frosty mornings, that wear fuzzy slippers,
Bundled against the dawning amber chill
To watch the early robins through misted windows
With ...
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Categories:
snow blind, happiness, joy, peace,
Form: Free verse
Coming Home For Christmas
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Twas the night before Christmas before I got home,
it took a train, bus, and taxi in falling snow;
and how that bus on the road did sway and roam,
while the wild snow and wind did h...
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Categories:
snow blind, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Solstice Hopes
...I’m not sure if it’s the shortened days
That douse the fire with malaise
Doubts that color vain displays
Red cheeks that the cold wind flays.
And yet I strive to soldier on
Battle with each br...
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Categories:
snow blind, december, seasons,
Form: Verse
Abysmally Slow Learner
...I don't know about you
but the seeming me abused and cursed
had all my birth fingers burnt off
at the first knuckle before the first lullaby
from too many here hold my beer
blithely eager watch ...
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Categories:
snow blind, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Of Nations I a Fearing Nation
...Casting stones into rivers,
broken deep in the core.
The tide of something coming.
Rusted in hue lost in the soul.
The tv burns in its silent snow
as it drifts in quite lands
of vacant ey...
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Categories:
snow blind, addiction, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Snow Blind-
...By the grave I saw blacken snow flakes
Lightning flashed as I witness
Drawn down from blacken purple skies
Burst of brilliants, winter blast snow blind
Upon a midnight electrics static...
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Categories:
snow blind, analogy, cool, funny love,
Form: Free verse
Moonlight and White
...MOONLIGHT AND WHITE
WRITTEN BY JEFF R HILTON
2019
MOONLIGHT AND WHITE
FAR AND WIDE
ITS FREEZING OUTSIDE
STOKE THE FIRE, HUNKER DOWN
DARK EYES DREAM
OF SWEETEST SUN FARAWAY
SAND INST...
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Categories:
snow blind, seasons, winter,
Form: Free verse
Black Powder
...I’m broke ‘n’ don’t think I like it too much.
Last night’s cab ride. No one turns the wheel now.
I stare through cathedrals whose glass I can’t touch.
I want to go home but I can’t see how.
Snow...
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Categories:
snow blind, death,
Form: Sonnet
Snow Blind
...Structure comes
from the classroom
Imagery comes
from experience
And it’s hard
to structure
What you can’t
—see
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...
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Categories:
snow blind, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Blizzards
...Ever watchful,
the third man
and we knew
there was one
that
always followed on
behind
snow blind,
but able to see
the future paths
laid out for me....
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Categories:
snow blind, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Mama's Golden Pond Cried
...Mama's Golden Pond Cried
Mama loved to chew
off the Golden Pond
bone
chew the fat
of their autumn leaves,
dressed in splendor,
a scenic lake and cabin,
her pseudo stage,
of her new fou...
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Categories:
snow blind, absence, betrayal, boat, mother,
Form: Lyric
The Day After Christmas
...Twas the day after Christmas
Throughout the North Pole,
Not a creature was working
Not one Ho! Ho! Ho!
The elves were at home
They had the day off
Santa was gone
To Hawaii, to play golf
A li...
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Categories:
snow blind, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Unsucceeding
...After the
elective execution,
you reach at the
end of nowhere.
A wayward
cloud stands alone
under the plump moon.
It is absolutely?
white, like the
wings of a swan.
Beneath the...
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Categories:
snow blind, art,
Form: ABC
The Performance
...Movies at midnight and musical drifts
I am snow blind and mesmerized in it all.
Sheer delight in the stardust moment,
Transient though it is.
It banishes everything in wonder....
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Categories:
snow blind, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Climber
...Climber
by Odin Roark
Reality readied its chance
Ascent of an alpine face
Traversing ice and cold
Challenging steel axe and rope
Such was the pulsating vibration
Facing another...
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Categories:
snow blind, life,
Form: Free verse
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