Shared Torch Lake
...I rock in this outdoor cheap chair
Its cushion foam like ice cream
Half-eaten by the winter mice in storage
I don’t mind
Don’t need a full seat to see before me
The drop off on Torch Lake
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Categories:
updrafts, earth, father, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
100 per cent CAGE FREE
...Robins seem to enjoy my yard
Awaiting the coolness of dewed mornings
To awaken the wriggling worms
A seasonal offering favored by the feathered ones
Dandelion waiters tend to the color and flav...
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Categories:
updrafts, garden, nature,
Form: Verse
Swarming Highland
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Written: November 06, 2023
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A swarm of herring gulls amassed
Nexus Nautilus nabbed by zealous winds,
whitening the black soil
we ho...
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Categories:
updrafts, analogy, feelings, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Summer Persists
...Our summer fellowships are over! We learned a lot - for instance - how summer’s a lot less fun when you’re hemmed-up, inside working. I mean, we preesh’d the clinical experience, the learning, and es...
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Categories:
updrafts, humor, school, student, summer,
Form: Free verse
Be Kind To Falling Raptors
...Be kind to all my fallen failures.
Even when I’ve burnt my house down?
Even when I’ve broken homes in two?
Even when I am guilty of misbehavior?
I’ve experienced downward spirals mangled
Every...
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Categories:
updrafts, divorce, father, forgiveness, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Sight
...Sometimes I think i should try,
Should spread my wings and fly
Soar through a cloud as a spirit so free
With land below, all the sights I see
Diving towards the earth below
Spread my wings out ...
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Categories:
updrafts, flying,
Form: Rhyme
The Inevitability of Happiness
...Today,
there are no rubber ducks
or mother's marigold skirts
to hide behind
as we once did.
In their place,
lurking dark and hoary,
a bathtub mist
updrafts thick with loose spores,
and mil...
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Categories:
updrafts, care, extended metaphor, fun,
Form: Free verse
Flying
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Sometimes I think i should try,
Should spread my wings and fly
Soar through a cloud as a spirit so free
With land below, all the sights I see
Diving towards the earth below
Spread my wings ...
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Categories:
updrafts, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Some Distant Shore
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Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the rest.
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Categories:
updrafts, flying,
Form: Quatrain
Ah, Drifting Leisurely - Repost
...Ah, drifting leisurely inside the cloud,
Watching hot sun’s rays glance across the nose
of the winged drone, stealthily slipping proud,
I drifted so peacefully through the floes.
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Categories:
updrafts, flying, sky, stress,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Farchadat Alte Kaker Here At Highland Manor Apartments
...I (a youthful sexagenarian)
can no longer quip being
a country boy at heart,
but me as urban cowboy,
I declare would never
so fuhgeddaboudit dear reader
nothing 'cept bucolic existence
labori...
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Categories:
updrafts, adventure, atheist, character, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Longing For My Mountain Home
...Purple mountains, majestic against an azure sky,
Rise to greet the passing rain-filled nimbus clouds
Above the verdant forests along the canyon rim,
Where sparrow hawks and other birds...
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Categories:
updrafts, home, longing, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Drifting Leisurely Inside the Cloud
...Ah, drifting leisurely inside the cloud,
Watching hot sun’s rays glance across the nose
of the winged drone, stealthily slipping proud,
I drifted so peacefully through the floes.
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Categories:
updrafts, fear, feelings, flying, success,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
We Will Write
...We will write
For every thousand ton of ore
There is a nugget,
And so we will write like miners,
Breathing the dust of our darkness,
Filling our veins and lungs
With the choke of our lives.
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Categories:
updrafts, write,
Form: Prose Poetry
Robinson Jeffers
...For Jeffers: On seeing Tor House and Hawk Tower
For the first time
The Tor stones have grown wistful
Through time and absence since
Your verses filled the house with
Creat...
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Categories:
updrafts, humanity,
Form: Ode
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