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Shagged in the back of a shotgun shack
at night by moonlight
peeping past curtains of burlap sack
such a sore sight
surrounded by fields of green
willing as she'd been
tho' torn
she ...
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Categories:
steading, boy, father, girl, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Longest Night
...* Paid my heed my friends for the frost giants begin their march southwards,
* and their hounds of winter ,shall Slather and bay awaiting direction from their masters
* as then ,
* th...
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Categories:
steading, allegory, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Weather Colloquy
...Weather Colloquy
I have seen the storm-
cometh with angry tones
steady in its wrath
dropping massive hail stones
I have seen the sky-
wet earth to its core
steady with its rain
pelting ...
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Categories:
steading, spring, storm, summer, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...Eyes gliding in the
fog,
Turning and merging
Flowing from and to
a steading
stream
Their hazy yellow
glare
'Midst swirling
specks
'Neath lamps spaced
like stones
across a void....
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Categories:
steading, travel,
Form: Free verse
Path of a Burn
...A Dribble a Trickle a Dram a Splash
Flowing Down a Brae Past the Steading
Rushing Over Rocks Creating Crag and Tails
Waves Wash and Bleather on the Bank
Water Shimmers and Shines in the Sun...
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Categories:
steading, nature,
Form: Light Verse
Shhh.
...shhh,
dont wake her slumber.
her tired body,
bones that twist on a couch.
to you it looks uncomfortable.
to me,
i know this is what she needs.
to close her eyes,
draped with wool blankets,
t...
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Categories:
steading, life, people, sympathy, ,
Form: Free verse