Autumn Wall Poems

narrow gray slanting
between the two poles
a crumbling wall
showing impressionist technique
muddy water flows into the wall
where migratory birds rest
swamp
grass without a name
exchanging words of love
swaying in...

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Inspired By My Beloved Poet- Robert Frost.

Stone walls become protectors of the land;
each stone is placed to balance and hold tight
through time, surviving long past...

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The wall around my heart
Slowly began to crumble
Like the Berlin Wall 
Of my ancestry.
I kept my steady pace
Upon the rusty leaf strewn dike
Letting the scents...

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spend your day expressed by grace ordered from a Payton place
cheer each moment from the edge of the setting sun a very well done
climb each...

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To speak to me is madness
I teach silence: hush your tongue
Quieten down now joys and sadness
Temper stifle, thought make dumb

Spring breezes with the sounds of...

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(A Salute to Robert Frost)

A fence of hand-hewn rock spans miles
of wind-swept road through fields of grain.
Uneven edge of rock, worn smooth
by storm’s hard breath...

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The Wall

Feral roses in all hues
atop a broken stone wall
clinging vines of color
the way that I recall.

Summer days at twelve years old
held in times embrace
climb...

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I lay here, half awake
seeing shadows of trees
leaves swaying
In the faint Autumn breeze
making patterns on my bedroom wall
now still
now moving as cars rush by
their headlights...

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