Songs of Nature COS No 1: ABAB
...A sun encounters a probing of it,
course a bargain at a remote lea.
Jilt Thistles yields to breeze that never quit,
brush forces the stately Yellow Daisies
dressed, and clips wispy tall grass the...
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Categories:
spooled, beautiful, meaningful, motivation, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Latch Key Kid
...A boy sits on house steps (cement arid)
removing the crust from his egg salad sandwich
sparrows snatch the broken morsels he throws at them
laced bonds like a companionship weave
a shield...
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Categories:
spooled, boy, child, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Time's Grip
...Trapped inside a wasteland,
dying inch by inch
Slave inside a rusted heart,
feelings chained then lynched
Later now than yesterday,
earlier than goodbye
Spooled like thread that can’t be ...
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Categories:
spooled, time,
Form: Rhyme
Crescendo
...the orchestra played full volume in the theatre of her mind
thoughts and emotions vied for undisturbed attention but
her misplaced applause failed to settle restless blind screens
decoupages...
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Categories:
spooled, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Time's Grip
...Trapped inside a wasteland,
dying inch by inch
Slave inside a rusted heart,
feelings chained then lynched
Later now than yesterday,
earlier than goodbye
Spooled like thread that can’t be ...
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Categories:
spooled, time,
Form: Rhyme
Crater Lake Gods Country
...God’s country, a volcano who turned herself into a lovely lake
of the prettiest color.
Azure? No. Periwinkle? Not really.
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Categories:
spooled, image, nature, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Times Grip
...Trapped inside a nightmare,
dying inch by inch
Slave inside a rusted heart,
feelings chained then lynched
Later now than yesterday,
earlier than goodbye
Spooled like thread that can...
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Categories:
spooled, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
The Luv'sic' Waste of D Henry Allwein, Part Ii
...II. Paralysis U[sic]
Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in the firelight
Pensively apart;
Linger now with me, thou Beauty,
On the sharp a...
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Categories:
spooled, beauty, blessing, color, joy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Sweet Susan
...(9th grade love affair with a blind cream boy and a sweet voice finger stroke magic girl in the 60's,
unfettered with a keen process of kissing vertical in the Clark hall, hoping to go un-but eve...
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Categories:
spooled, emotions, funny love, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Astral Darkness
...The last hour lies down
in mid-winter’s gully
a frosted string of light
spooled into dark
stitched into fantasy
Flying birds gather the city
in their wings
Ah, to love birds and thei...
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Categories:
spooled, fairy, imagination, inspirational, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Museum
...This is a monument.
It was born from us a town illegitimate; we never married.
A great hall of artifacts, plucked still-gunked from our livers,
Others clean-picked from our birdy bones.
Over ...
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Categories:
spooled, absence, analogy, change, imagery,
Form: Free verse
La Femme Ideale
...I love her limpid, clear blue-eyes
and her long, yellow tresses;
wise, and with grace that never dies
or wavers, she blesses.
Behind those intelligent eyes,
she ponders, thin...
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Categories:
spooled, beauty, fantasy, loneliness, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Haiku-Ukiah
...she is alabaster and brine
she is a faster lairs line
unwind her spooled mind
memory a keepsake in hand conquers a trinket lost
eat mandrake to the root but what the cost
unspoiled her thoughts ...
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Categories:
spooled, absence, emo, encouraging, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Fabrics of Life
...my chantilly heart
spooled by your burlap embrace --
simple blessings twine...
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Categories:
spooled, happiness,
Form: Senryu
When My Gang Ruled
...Gang violence has hit the cities and is often in the news
In hate and anger they are schooled
We had our own gang when I was just a kid
In the days when my gang ruled
We rode together on our bi...
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Categories:
spooled, childhood
Form: Rhyme
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