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The Perils of Weathervanes
... Weathervanes were once practical indicators of matters meteorological – wind speed and direction, notably – found on house and barn roofs mostly. Nowadays of course they’ve rarely seen rep......
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Maurice Rigoler
Categories:
whirligig,
humor,
Form:
Light Verse
The Scenic View
...falling rain, droplet by droplet pane pain pane sipping on leaves fall falling failing to see leaves livestock lumbering, conceited between the pages their veins throbbing as a moppet scri......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
whirligig,
autumn, child, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Prickles the Gust
...“How-do-you-do?” the seminal leaves of Autumn wave. “When would you like to fly away?” prickles the gust. Maternal-oak holds on tight as one birdy takes flight. The gust will have none of this b......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
whirligig,
autumn, tree, wind,
Form:
Personification
Silver Wassail of Chimes
... bird’s beak in stirring melody arouse silver wassail of chimes breathlessly bound to bough to bow at angst of wind reverence of two feet bird’s claws clinging to the true branc......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
whirligig,
autumn, bird, child, god,
Form:
Verse
I Miss My Youth
...I miss my youth – the way I’d run or swirl beneath warm summer’s sun. Oh, dahlia daydreams of romance, sweet kisses and that first slow dance. My real life barely had begun! Adventures I was s......
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Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
whirligig,
youth,
Form:
Rondeau
Castles In The Air
... Quote: Do you ever wonder why we build castles in the air? Perhaps, it's to soften the blow of a harsh world that never seems to slide nor adjust to our individual expectations. Ever......
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Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
whirligig,
appreciation, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Two Straight Madelines
...curlicues perhaps the Catholic nun wouldn’t let me engage in penmanship shape “shape up, sit straight!!” yet the ancients would whirligig with their featherings fill up the ......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
whirligig,
religion, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Day At the Fair
...Sniffs of cotton candy glide Glistening like hairy sugar bombs Through barns of dozy prized cows Stinky squeaky piggies squeal off-key While whirligig Ferris Wheels grind and spin In the hum of ......
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Lonna Blodgett
Categories:
whirligig,
celebration, feelings, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Sand
...SAND airborne dust devil stinging whirligig rips my hair, eyes, and skin I’m well-scoured and abraded “Cleansing sand storm, if I survive.” NB: Clarity Pyramid, ......
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Linda Alice Fowler
Categories:
whirligig,
storm, wind,
Form:
Verse
Miss Carousel
...Dear miss carousel Dear lady on wheels When next you declare another ride Permit me lay by your side For I have no lover To spin my body around No loving Father Nor cherished mo......
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Pam Pam
Categories:
whirligig,
depression, longing, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
Journeys
...We plan, organize, gather and pack, we fly - what liberty is this - to fly like a weapon on the edge of heaven. Having no power to do it ourselves we trust security, the silver whirligig, and......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
whirligig,
humor, night, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy October
... October trees, they sway in the wind A tangerine tango that taunts the tinges October leaves, they swirl in the breeze A vermilion whirligig that vaunts the whispers October hue......
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Joanna Daniel
Categories:
whirligig,
autumn, october,
Form:
Free verse
Give a Fig
...To aid the celebration’s overindulgence of snow and damp, sugar and fat, serve a cornucopia of felicitous fiber and its vitamin rush— whirligig of walnuts and crisp cranberries, Honeycris......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
whirligig,
celebration, fruit, health, holiday,
Form:
Alliteration
I Am Not a Zelig
...I Am Not a Zelig By Sy Roth If not now, when? The Zelig resides Quiet, undefined In my dark corners. Like a chameleon, it rests on the warming rock Inert, cold-blooded creature Sunning i......
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Sy Roth
Categories:
whirligig,
angst,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Not a Zelig
...I Am Not a Zelig By Sy Roth If not now, when? The Zelig resides Quiet, undefined In my dark corners. Like a chameleon it rests on the warming rock Inert, cold-blooded creature Sunning it......
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Sy Roth
Categories:
whirligig,
allegory, color, culture,
Form:
Free verse
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