Song of The Cracker Butterfly No 4: ABAB
...Mountains, and forest, but wetlands, favored,
but what do they know, they're just their pinups.
The whole South to Arizona's, bordered ...
trees and boulders serve their choice of hole-ups.
Crack...
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Categories:
sweet gum, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Lush November Fall
...Dawn
awakes
bright cities
deep moonlit snooze
when autumn pageant’s
covert vanishing trail
exits on the sly behind
a stoic gem plinth while cheerful
denizens asses black grain pepper
clouds...
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Categories:
sweet gum, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Etheree
Taking a Fall Drive
...I took my last fall ride
Down the road
Where we could see egg yolks beaten with milk
Splattered upon the sweet gum, silver birch and hickory
Fall's angular sunlight at just the rig...
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Categories:
sweet gum, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Death of a Sweet Gum
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Death Of A Sweet Gum
Miracle Man
3/14/2022
Leaves cascading as if indiscriminately lost,
casualties of nature and multiple nights frost.
Once a coat of many colors on our Sweet Gum T...
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Categories:
sweet gum, death, tree, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
October Spice
...October Spice
Inspired October creates a recipe
For a sumptuous feast
A bouquet garni of paprika hued orange tupelo,
A fete of fragrant cinnamon shades in russet umber oaks,
Sprinkling tinges ...
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Categories:
sweet gum, october,
Form: Free verse
Impenetrable
...As dark clouds gather in the sky
Down where the river narrows
And Sprewell Bluff's craggy rocks rise
Great blue heron has flown and the sparrow
The river speedily flows on by
Its color no ...
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Categories:
sweet gum, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Childhood Memories
...Childhood Memories!
Playing soccer as a forward and a goalie in early childhood through first grade
meeting a pilot and a stewardess in kindergarten and even wanted to be a pilot for a while beca...
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Categories:
sweet gum, 11th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Narrative
Liquidambar Styraciflua
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Liquidambar Styraciflua
(Sweet Gum Tree, the Sandbur of the Forest)
Written: by Tom Wright
10-25-2016
After each leaf has slowly surrendered its green
They take on the colors of a pa...
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Categories:
sweet gum, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Someone To Love-Part 1
...Book in hand, I strode the path
in awesome Autumn splendor.
The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek,
while the cool breeze gently tickled
goose bumps across my warm skin.
All around me the cre...
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Categories:
sweet gum, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Old Grist Mill
...Surreal nature encapsulates the scene spread out in front of my unbelieving eyes. Years ago this was the center hub of activity in the rural community. Forgotten way of life as people congregate in c...
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Categories:
sweet gum, beauty,
Form: Haibun
Sweet Gum
...sweet gum's base wrapped tight
tree's limbs loaded with round balls....
pond catches offsprings ...
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Categories:
sweet gum, nature,
Form: Haiku
Scarlet
...Sweet gum
Three pronged leaves
Foot like, dancing in breeze
Hung upon the clothesline drips blood
Scarlet ...
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Categories:
sweet gum, life, nature,
Form: Cinquain
Magical Forest
...As I walk through the valley of the Red Maple trees
I take a look and realize that’s it’s a pioneer species
and that’s just a little bit of knowledge from me
You know i shun Bradford Pears, they d...
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Categories:
sweet gum, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Surreal Nature
....
the old grist mill leans
nestled in the rocky bank
red fall leaves surreal
The swift red stained creek that energized the mill's wheel still runs over ancient rocks...
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Categories:
sweet gum, life, nature,
Form: Haibun
Autumn: Sunbeams On Colorful Streams
...A spindling sun stream on bough's cloak spun
Melange of orange, yellow, red on foliage doth billow
Decadent Umbrella wields fluorescent shield o'er barren
fields
Glinted blades colorful shades heigh...
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Categories:
sweet gum, seasons
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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