Spring's First Heartbeat
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"Spring's first heartbeat honors Winter's last breath."
~ Angie Westland Crosby
When Winter finally rests her weary head on a pillow
Spring smiles and war...
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Categories:
westland, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
The Aviators' Alphabet
...A is for Airspeed who graduated from Oxford
B is for Bristol with their whispering giants
C is for Convair and Canadair also
B recalls Boulton-Paul who built many Defiants.
D for De Havil...
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Categories:
westland, conflict, flying, history, howl,
Form: Abecedarian
Charmed At First Sight
...It was in Westland that I met this barmaid,
She looked fragile,and complexed with manifestations of excellence,
That very night I sat exactly after four seperated bevies nailing myself to eminenc...
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Categories:
westland, angel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Molly's New Dress
...MOLLY’S NEW DRESS
She was the fairest of girls on
the hills called Westland
Young as she was, in her rags, she glowed
like Alice in Wonderland.
Humble her family was
yet she was always with a smil...
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Categories:
westland, child, family, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
900 Miles
...Bird around the bay of white and swoops aloft the air
Descends upon the deck and lays a top a chair
Dear bird me thinks I leave my land to forage and to bare
And now my suit has got your fruits on sh...
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Categories:
westland, mothermother, work, mother, work,
Form: Kyrielle