My Hairy Wild Petunia
..."My Hairy Wild Petunia"
Likened
To lichen
Sphagnum
Mostly moss
Made moist
Dew do me
Kiss my
Lab ia
Good
Bi...
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Categories:
sphagnum, nature,
Form: Free verse
Terrarium
...In a violent contumacious act
the rankled child smashed the terrarium;
the green shards of glass making an abstract
scheme on the tiles of the solarium.
Amid the sphagnum and the fertile dirt
si...
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Categories:
sphagnum, anger, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mire of the Northern Rain Forest
...Spring buds
Bursting
Like popcorn stuck on sticks
Raising my perspective to
Gallivant
In knee-high tickle grass
Nested
In the strew of stony rocks
Festooned
With sphagnum and lichen
Frothed...
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Categories:
sphagnum, flower, insect, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Red Moss of Glen Affric
...The phantoms of Glen Affric call
from deep within the histosol,
where time and matter’s slow decay
of misty glen and ancient fray,
conceal Mackenzie ghosts in wait
with weapons drawn to gree...
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Categories:
sphagnum, history, war,
Form: Rhyme
Moss Crossed Feathered Flights
...Scraped off the south-side of Old Tumble Falls
rigid rocks roll helpless down to an empty floor
no more holding roost high amidst cliffs kept
close final rays of her dying sun feathered
below ...
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Categories:
sphagnum, fate, imagery, song,
Form: Free verse
Rains Are Coming
...Sleep me, conceive me like sphagnum;
propel me to essence of death.
Seeing has put me behind the truth,
objectively.
Like centipede, fear crawls in deep blind cave
throwing the feelers.
The gen...
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Categories:
sphagnum, life, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: ABC
Being a Mosser
...I was a mosser
For many of years
Hard manual labor
Not what it appears
Sphagnum moss a life
For underprivileged some
A way to make a living
Not who you want to become
Working grueling hou...
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Categories:
sphagnum, introspection, life, work, education,
Form: I do not know?
Epitaph To a Happy Mosquito
...T'was a warm summer's day, when I took to the trail,
to cruise that old black spruce, way down in the swale.
A gallon of bug dope was strapped on my hip,
which I figured would last me for most o...
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Categories:
sphagnum, cowboy-western, funny, nature, me,
Form: Ballad