April Sound Poems

We're sinking down, down, down
all this insanity is too much to handle
we're nearing the finale of our trip 
and always flooded with anguish
we run into...

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Ah, Wind, we've known each other so long.
While creatures run quickly from your side,
I've tried to find kindness in your song 
but your howls become...

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That's a long way from sighing freely
just one calm brushstroke
wrapped in a sea of tranquility
to suit phantom clustering to occur

         soundless groans...

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Enchanting sounds of early spring
A pleasant rain, when robins sing
Children's laughter out on the street
Friendly hellos from friends we meet
Sunday morning when church bells ring.

Sounds...

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A chirp-chirp-chirping I find delightful
Echoing through my open hearth,
Chimney swifts have returned to nest
In the open flue, their usual berth.

Warmth from the pilot light drifts...

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I smell her perfume wafting on the breeze
I hear her laughter in the aspens’ shimmer
As the wind comes gently through the trees
I smell her perfume...

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I am captivated by the ever-rushing tide
Small, distant tsunamis raping the beach,
Granting the tiny sand crabs a free ride
From way beyond the frothing surf’s reach
Causing...

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Once upon a long time,
The silence blanketed my world
Like snow covering an arctic forest.

The nooks and crannies of my days
Were filled with the wispy webs...

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OH Let it all become known far and wide all over the cities, towns and country sides, "You are braver than you believe Stronger than...

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THE SOUND OF TOWNS


Announcing  my address in Gateshead
Usually started me feeling half dead.
The flames crackled as the Detroit  River  burned to Toledo
While...

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With spring rain the welcome scent of clover
Pink tinges the greening of the meadows,
Babbling brooks rushing alive once again
To valleys no longer lying fallow
Rich loam...

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The rain---sounds like catapults fired on our roof 
drops like palm kernels---splash on the back cover
 of our...

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When the rooster crows

   The farmer's already up

      Kellogg Cornflakes time




       ...

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water spurting
from a gargoyle spout…
I am drawn to
the gurgling of a baby
in his mother’s arms
					
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loudly
       children's laughter echoes 
             on lonely...

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