Nymps
...Forest Nymphs
He had read about nymphs, inland mermaids
swimming in tarns and forest lakes far from
The restless oceans, the tarn nymphs were
less aggressive and bore no grudges
He found his ...
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Categories:
tarns, age, appreciation, august, best
Form: ABC
Lake District High
...In my New York suburb, I’m mildly fond
Of Helvellyn Road, and Gracemere pond
But the original Helvellyn called...
Ravenglass too, even the name enthralled.
Of Lake poets, I eagerly read
And I ...
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Categories:
tarns, beauty, mountains, nature,
Form: Lyric
Nature's Lilypond Walks
...We wander for form, but at a snail's pace
We grasp pure air and feel the hills fully
We find joy walking to our desired place
By gazing, we might parse where fine sprouts face
We wa...
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Categories:
tarns, analogy, appreciation, beauty, environment,
Form: Villanelle
Fireflies Or Fairies
...O to be in England
in the early days of spring
when the golden daffodils
steal the heart and make it sing.
Roaming the Lake District
far away from urban noise,
by cascading water...
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Categories:
tarns, nature, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Fireflies Or Fairies
...O to be in England
in the early days of spring
when the golden daffodils
steal the heart and make it sing.
Roaming the Lake District
far away from urban noise,
by cascading water...
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Categories:
tarns, imagination, longing, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
What We Feel
......is what we see
Emotions are the weather of the mind
We live between peaks and troughs
The former breeds hubris with downfall built in
The latter deals with death,darkness and despair
Our mood...
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Categories:
tarns, dark, fear, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Let Us Away Then
...We seek out the high places,
For mountains soothe the soul.
They fill a heart with joy,
They make a spirit whole.
So let us away then,
Let us scale some dizzy heights.
Let us wonder at the m...
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Categories:
tarns, adventure, mountains, together,
Form: Rhyme
Deep In the Mountain Tarns
...Deep In The Mountain Tarns
Deep in the mountains,
Beyond a lost road,
Mystical spirits
Have their wild abode.
Lonely abysses
Of primeval dread,
Forests were freely
the shy fairies tr...
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Categories:
tarns, creation, deep, environment, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Rich Is the Blood
...RICH IS THE BLOOD!
A witch has capabilities to get me if I am curse.
God knows she can scare a stone in his or her godly works.
However, the road I travel leaves he...
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Categories:
tarns, creation, dark, environment, faith,
Form: Free verse
Gulls and Other Birds
...Gulls and Other Birds.
As we left harbour seagulls and their mewling followed
us for a few hours, then they slowly disappeared and we
were in a world of floating iron with cargo in the ship´s
h...
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Categories:
tarns, candy, humor,
Form: Blank verse
Kaleidoscope of Life
...Kaleidoscope of Life.
And behind the forest sings that nothing is the way you think
and try as you might make love to one you do not love gives
a feeling of lost time, of a useless pursuit of fi...
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Categories:
tarns, fantasy, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Mother Nature
...Nature Strives to be beautiful
Morphing myriad, earthly hues
from macrocosmic frippery.
Her perfumed zephyrean breaths
Intoxicate the atmosphere
Stirring those that breathe to wildness
That o...
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Categories:
tarns, nature,
Form: Verse
Thank You Mt Kenya
...For milliards of tough years
You have stood in our midst
Unperturbed, indomitable
And you have enticed the rain
And it has showered our fields
Our ridges and verdant plains
And filled not only our ri...
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Categories:
tarns, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Requiescat of Solitude.
...Sweet summer winds, hear me
Ne’er endure this bewailing daybreak
For where whether not daylight rises
Now silenced eternal under prettified blossoms
Sleeps that sweet beauty that defined me.
Und...
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Categories:
tarns, death, life, loss, philosophy
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow Is Too Late
...Tomorrow will be too late to pen the imminent
Hold onto the moment and sketch the future
Backdrops must be moved for change
Leads and understudies pass by or fade
Wrest the quill from the bot...
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Categories:
tarns, introspection, life, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
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