Do You Hear Them
...Do you hear them in the dark sky; voices.
Can you see them? They're in the moist cold wind.
Strong feverish passionate rant noises.
It's pined and forced behind, on a whirlwind.
Autumn leaves...
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Categories:
wheaten, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Apologies To August
...Yes, I have called you callous
Garish and imperious
An inconvenient glare
Cracking apart the shadows of my sleep
The insistent inconsistency
Of the besieging and retreating heat
In your smoke s...
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Categories:
wheaten, forgiveness, summer, sun,
Form: Free verse
Voices
..."The voices howl in the dark frightens even the brave."
Quote by poet
Voices, do you hear them in the pitch dark.
They drum from pressure within moist cold wind.
It's exfoliating an...
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Categories:
wheaten, wind,
Form: Enclosed 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:
wheaten, care, extended metaphor, fun,
Form: Free verse
Paddy
...Paddy
His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co...
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Categories:
wheaten, dog,
Form: Prose
The Emerald Isle
...I'm going to fly,
and see Ireland,
The Emerald Isle,
My ticket's in hand.
Visit in a pub,
drink pints awhile.
Joke with the Locals,
carouse, laugh and smile.
Eat real Irish stew,
brown w...
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Categories:
wheaten, adventure, friendship, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
Angel In a Whirlwind
...Angels - 12/28/21 This is a true story experienced by the poet.
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Angel in a Whirlwind
Storm of the decade descends upon the day
Torrents of howlin...
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Categories:
wheaten, angel, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Ted -Beloved Gift
...Ted -Beloved Gift
We have walked so many roads together
Through sunny afternoons on dusty pathways with the breeze;
Traveled many miles through your fourteen years
To grassy fields of dogs sh...
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Categories:
wheaten, animal, dog, memory,
Form: Free verse
Voices In the Wind
...Do you hear them in the dark sky; voices?
Can you see them? They're in the moist cold wind.
It's pined and forced behind, on a whirlwind,
Strong feverish passionate rant noises.
Autumn leave...
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Categories:
wheaten, imagery, love, wind,
Form: Sonnet
The Sunhive
...Glorious golden, wheaten, woven.
The Sunhive hangs, safe and secure, in the cradling arms of the old tree.
Full of syrupy sweetness, strength and wisdom of its small, mantled gold and black, dwel...
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Categories:
wheaten, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Wheat Field
...There where the sun is on the field
I walk aside its wheaten yield,
pathway strewn with golden ceding
of some growth beholden, deeding
violent gales to cast to earth
too ...
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Categories:
wheaten, allusion, analogy, seasons, sun,
Form: Rhyme
A Fishy Tale
...Said a Cod to a wise old Eel,
I would like to know how you feel?
Though people snack on dips,
Lots more eat fish and chips.
They say it has great meal appeal!
Said the Eel to the wise old Cod,...
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Categories:
wheaten, allusion, fantasy, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
The County
...Summer’s golden blade does thrust
its effervescent golden musk,
and into wheaten fields’ did trust,
a volley of ethereal rust,
caught by tempered, evening gust
Cart and horse they trot out ...
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Categories:
wheaten, england, imagery,
Form: Quintain (English)
Lea of Grains
...In the fields of gold,
A wheaten radiance gleams;
Dancing with the wind....
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Categories:
wheaten, nature
Form: Haiku