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Tarn Poems - Poems about Tarn


Tarn
A mountain tarn, a deep-water eye, high and blackly gleaming. A scramble down slippery scree to look within, then a tingling apprehension of being too close to an unbalanced footing, one that is a lip between tilting ground and an entrance to nowhere. I can't say what I expect to see, not the bottom of a mountain, a dazzling sky-window, or the depth of my soul perhaps. What I see...

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Categories: tarn, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blackbeck Tarn
you are above so you descend to the water on stiff legs scrabbling down the scree the tarn looks like mercury spilled into the umbilicus of the mountain when approached you see the mirroring clarity where a captured sky peers inward from the sloping shale you throw a pebble into the water the splash is small but its echoing ghost sinks much deeper there is no comfort here only the straining guide...

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Categories: tarn, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Tarn
A mountain tarn, a mirror blackly gleaming. I slide down some shale to peer in. As I stare there's a tingling apprehension of being too close to an edge where sky, land, and reason drop away. I can't quite say what I expected to see, not the bottom of a mountain, a man's visage maybe, perhaps some deep mystery? What I saw buried its reflection into the back...

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Categories: tarn, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Inert Tarn
An inert tarn In the pond of pleasant memories, a duckling paddled like an unwanted thought of a spring wedding in Brussel. Flat stones skipped on the pond in the night, quacked refused to spit out half-chewed toothpicks forgotten. Expel the duck and send it abroad to the Saragossa Sea to a shadowy barren island in the stream where the monster...

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Categories: tarn, confidence, corruption, earth day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ilkley Tarn
biting cold nipping on footpath across the mere a window to life © Harry J Horsman 2017...

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Categories: tarn, nature,
Form: Haiku




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