Yarrow
...The yarrow is a show stealer,
a charming wildflower and garden plant
that blooms perennially
around June to August.
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Categories:
waysides, appreciation, beauty, flower,
Form: Imagism
Ballad of Broken Friendships
...I've burnt so many bridges
with an empty box of matches.
Friendships fall to waysides,
and I watch it while it happens.
Distant conversations;
Eyes no longer fastened
on the times when all we k...
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Categories:
waysides, depression, friendship, metaphor, sorry,
Form: Sonnet
Seasonal Colour
...SUMMERTIMES MAGIC.
Summertimes magic makes a fine holiday,
Where lands of enchantment, invite us to stay.
The lure of the wild, or, in peaceful solace,
These wonderful places we...
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Categories:
waysides, magic, summer, time,
Form: Couplet
Clutching At Ice Straws
...Clutching at straws
That break
Metaphorically
The camels back
The waysides chaplen says
Bring back heroin
We can't control
Ice addicts...
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Categories:
waysides, addiction, angst,
Form: Free verse
For the Beautiful Mystic Rose
...In many ways, you are immense,
Prevailing in your purpose,
Radiating all shades of Love’s perseverance
As mysteries unfurl
You are restful,
Peaceful, and undulating with a deep desire to teac...
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Categories:
waysides, beauty, dedication, deep, for
Form: Ode
One Man Went To Mow, Went To Mow a Meadow
...Walking across dry green fields grass knee high so rich so very dark,
I lifted my scythe high and it swept over the meadow with sharp ease,
Cutting the perennial clover as it filled the air with a sw...
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Categories:
waysides, nature, yellow,
Form: Prose Poetry
One Man Went To Mow Went To Mow a Meadow
...Walking across dry green fields grass knee high so rich so very dark,
I lifted my scythe high and it swept over the meadow with sharp ease,
Cutting the perennial clover as it filled the air with a sw...
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Categories:
waysides, nature, yellow,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Day and a Night In June
...Rolling pastures of green meadows rise to greet the horizon meeting a deep blue sky,
Beautiful old Perennial Clovers fill the glades and valleys with sweetness and beauty,
Yellow Goat’s Beard, Dog ...
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Categories:
waysides, anniversary, nature, beauty, light,
Form: Prose Poetry
Heartbeats Never Timed
...There's fog over the valley,
the river's running high,
Thunder's rolling from the east
through a darkening sky.
The ev'ning comes in hazy
for one moment of time,
Moving through t...
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Categories:
waysides, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Desert Ride
...a broken bottled oasis flashes in the distance.
bent waves of light whether the skies
burnt skin.
Some kind of desert revival whose chapeled
steps are cindered bones Flashes and fad...
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Categories:
waysides,
Form: I do not know?