Summer Sound Poems

A song fades into the dark night
Song of wonder in mourning light
Breath of grace weeping silent tears
God’s love can still the flow of fears

Melodies, rich...

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   alley cats screeching

      summer breezes waft the sounds
         
...

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It is like the rain on a summer day 
Each drop restoring, keeping heat at bay 

If not for this I'd burn in hot sun...

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A leaf dried to brown maraca, rustles.
Moon-beam driven breeze, curls in ears, whispers.
Subtle call of summer's passing, puzzles.
As green summer grass fades to grey, whiskers.

You...

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(a poem in Senryus)

They say that you should
never follow whisky with
beer - but my new rhyme

is - never follow
several martinis with
two more martinis

Ladies, please take...

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Scratched music of hillbilly washboards
From the scraping wings of the Katydids
Aloft in the Oaks
Reborn each night just beyond dusk
After the cicadas finish their warmup act

The...

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It was a hot day, I was on my way back from Spar, carrying a bag of groceries. I walked past the lilac bushes in...

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Sounds, bathed in memories,
Glistening, shimmering, sparkly sounds
On rivers of gentle, feeling left out
By August sun, blazing tangerine, bursting 
Buttery wonder through the reflections,
Stirrings of grace,...

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Cool, dark blue waters
Ringed by green, pointed pines
A white-clouded sky above 
And all of it fills my eyes

Free-floating ...
Held in summer's arms 
Held by the...

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A Symphony Of Sound Still Around

Three ladybugs on a succulent pose.  
Two tired tulips in my windowsill doze.
New dark dahlias will soon surprise.
Begonias in...

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Summer Minstrels and Songsters

Crickets
Summer songsters
Music of the night
Back porch lullabies, serenade
Singers

Newborn
Cicadas buzz
Yawn and stretch in warm sun
Bright eyes see magnolia trees
Minstrels

Summer
Fireflies twinkle
Magic song of stars
Like...

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White
sand beach,
alive with 
laughter, children's
squeals, grown-up shouts, the
swoosh, swoosh of waves against
the shore, a distant rumble
of thunder - symphonic sounds of
summer on a sweltering July
day...

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a balmy evening
sweating out rivers of heat ~
sun glares in silence

too hot to handle
sounds of summer pierce the sky ~
cicada chorus

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Spring takes its leave.
Now, humid, hot sultry eves
Lighting bugs in flight
Lighting up the night
Crickets loudly chirping.
From the bird bath, mosquitoes slurping.
Frogs calling for a mate.
Limited...

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One of a kind
ocean music
pounding Goombay rhythms
against the rocks
and rake and scrape rhythms
in the prevailing winds
and the waves mashing the roach
with their feet on the...

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