Tidepools
...Born into the soothe of tidepools
hardly a ripple hardly a care
infinity in the shallow so near
but there are no treasures here
only the seduction of security.
on the horizon you see shinning ...
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Categories:
thrashers, life,
Form: Rhyme
Cold Comforts
...Beyond the wave-sacked pebbles
lie the pockmarked dunes,
sea-wind swept heaps,
burrowed by the claws of scaly thrashers.
Here they huddle, the working class,
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing ...
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Categories:
thrashers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Multilingual Birds of a Feather
...
The Mockingbird sings out his misleading best,
in hopes to attract a dupe with a nest,
where the squatter believes mate’s eggs should belong;
so mimics and jabbers ...
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Categories:
thrashers, allusion, betrayal, bullying, irony,
Form: Rhyme
That Life Is Fleeting
...A walk through the meadow
is now out of the question,
for I need no signs of death
and shadow to remind me
that life is fleeting.
A walk through the meadow
would not elevate my mo...
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Categories:
thrashers, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
Of Allegorical Echoers
...(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)
We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the sh...
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Categories:
thrashers, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose
Observations In the Meadow
...Time for a walk in the meadow to clear my head
I got up rather early and jumped out of bed,
A quick cup of coffee and a small piece of toast
I must get on my way before the sun will ro...
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Categories:
thrashers, animal, appreciation, bird, nature,
Form: Couplet
Pebble Beach Day Out
...Beyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.
Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stain...
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Categories:
thrashers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pork You Pine
...needles and nettles
thistles and thrushes
thrashers and hashish
each has a has as each
a brother and sister
a mister and missus
a this and a that is
their there and
they're there
and no
wh...
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Categories:
thrashers, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Cold Comforts
...Beyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.
Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stain...
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Categories:
thrashers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Its Spring the Songbirds Do Sing--
...IT’S SPRING THE SONGBIRDS DO SING--
Oh, perching birds Passeriformes on branches sit Passeriformes;
Singing unto me a songs mimetic merrily in vocaliz...
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Categories:
thrashers, analogy, appreciation, bird, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Soul Ponders
...The Old Soul Ponders
The Old Soul Ponders
Old soul, ripped its tent and retired
into another long daylight fog
Pay the wages, old age is soundly mired
in the barks of a lazy dog
Serpent lik...
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Categories:
thrashers, age, art, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Just For Fun
...Birds flurry...
Frenzy feed...
Gold Finches...
Nuthatchers...
Red Cardinals...
Male Blue Jay...
House Finches...
Some Sparrows...
Nairy Crow...
Brown Thrashers...
Mockingbirds...
Come to stay....
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Categories:
thrashers, nature,
Form: Free verse
Orbiting Monet
...Her heart was a watercolor foyer.
Drifting about eddies-beneath fatal falls.
Wishing away the violets,
morning roses and midnight glories.
Fading mist-stained beating.
Her l...
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Categories:
thrashers, death, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Abc Animal Twist
...ABC Animal Twist
Adored and diverse, life thrives on earth; each day nature sees new births.
Big and small, abundantly in seas and trees; great beauty breathes.
Chameleons, cats, corn snakes, an...
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Categories:
thrashers, animals, naturegod, nature, animal,
Form: ABC