Nature Tetractys Poems

 Moth
 seeks light
 as night falls
 Finds glowing bulb
 Flying in circles round its new found orb
 Then going into a fateful spiral
 A...

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dance
and song
all day long
still for moments
then roaming blooms and fuchsia midnight rooms
restless rapt wind rousing all to tango
in orange mists
of dawn or
scarlet
dusk...

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grief
within
cultivates
necrotic seeds
beneath harrowing wastelands battling faith 
whispering whimsical tunes of mourning
midst healing rays
of natures 
shining
hope 
soar
above
star-studded 
illusions of
deceiving minds adorned in gilded lies
veiled in halcyon...

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trees
sunlight
filtering
hope arises
through its door I journey to redemption

sunrise harbingers rejuvenation
I seek this course
I sojourn
pathway
hope


November 12, 2023.
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            A
            cold...

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Birds
Singing
Soothing souls,
Serenading
Trembling moments erase the darkest gloom,
Stardust shadows echo through the silence,
Glistening truth,
Playing soft,
Warbling
Songs


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Frost's
scruples
left behind
for the after
veil— where the sun unsheathes a morning sword

as the natural winter on grass gleams—
its evidence
of the gift
to still
melt....

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Blow
for now
your heat on
rippling leaves;
unjaded, they don't drop... the pressure snarls 

in veins on leafy cheek's different masks
(too many airs)
color shy—
fallen
raked...

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A 
cricket 
in the grass 
glistening green
silver lit, sings a song to welcome sleep 
Adrift anon in a dream gallery 
but continues 
to lick the...

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blooms
bouncy
baby’s breath
busy bee balm
ritzy rose, glitzy gloxinia
zany zinnia, dear ditzy daisy
swanky saffron
flouncy phlox
bonnie
buds...

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bye
so long
October
time to leave you
time to fill the air with a newer song
time to sing of harvests and thanksgiving
time to welcome
November
hello
hi

(Double Tetractys with Antonym Diamante...

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Art
given
to express
experiences-
seldom ever to imitate nature.

NOTE:The challenge with Ray Stebbing's tetractys form is -that each line is required 'to stand on its own ' & the poem itself  is...

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stroll
linger
stretch your legs
feel the sun’s warmth
soak in all that has been prepared for you

sit
be still
tune your ears
shut all else out
hear the glorious music of the...

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greens
landforms
humans treat
mother nature
yet, you maintain serving humanity.
every second you draw a great landscape
You feed and care.
selflessness.
byword.
trust.


Written: January 07, 2022...

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Trees
burning,
carpet of 
embers on ground;
mesmerized I rake the leaves, put them in
a basket. Even in death there is glee.
Detachment of
tree inspires
me, brings
joy.

31.08.2021
For Eve Rooper Tetractys...

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