A’Sway
...My whirligigs are spinning;
The trees are all a’sway.
The dafs, with blooms beginning,
Bow their heads in mock dismay.
The windsock strips are dancing;
The bushes are a’bounce,
The dogs on le...
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Categories:
whirligigs, spring, today,
Form: Rhyme
Droning On
...Guard dogs try to sleep in a deaf corner.
Smaller barkers do what they do best
from under bed or table.
Large bugs in the sky
keep blinking and teasing.
They jig and jag
and only the dogs
an...
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Categories:
whirligigs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bells
...Bells
Solitary heart, newborn in brooding silence,
Steps on a cluttered path
Through elms and boughs of broken limbs,
In a pungent, evergreen hush
Absent of astral cacophony
That falls like ...
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Categories:
whirligigs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fantastic Words
...A closer look at a fantastic word
And no, I’m not talking in bafflegab
To not repeat this speak is just absurd
To absquatulate like a fracas herd
Throw a foofaraw over a little jab
A closer lo...
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Categories:
whirligigs, fun, words,
Form: Villanelle
Mischief
...My whirligigs are whirling
Since the wind has come to call
And my windsocks’ arms are twirling
Like they’re gearing for a brawl.
The temperature is dropping
Back to wintertime degrees
And th...
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Categories:
whirligigs, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Haiku
...multicolor leaves
showers of seed whirligigs
bird nests now empty...
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Categories:
whirligigs, change, color, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Shift of the Leaves
...shift of the leaves
slowly changing
separating from summer
chilling whirligigs
ready for color
dying to fall
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8/27/2022...
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Categories:
whirligigs, autumn,
Form: Shape
The Magic of the Wind
...My brand-new garden spinner twirls
When breezes start to blow.
It joins my dancing windsock,
Strips a’flying to and fro.
The wind provides the magic
For the whirligigs and trees,
From little...
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Categories:
whirligigs, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Wrack
...The storm brawled with the flying rags
of mad clowns.
Small birds exploded
in spiral sprays of feathers.
Deer slogged against a hoof tugging fright.
Raccoons clung to barn beams.
Trashca...
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Categories:
whirligigs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Place To Ponder
...I am sitting on the cliff overlooking the river
Far below in the crevice of the mountains,
Where the waters meander like a ribbon
And the rafters are tiny figurines fighting
The currents l...
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Categories:
whirligigs, angst, life, loneliness, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Considering Whirligigs
...Considering whirligigs, how they spin,
While I, I sip on my ginger and gin
Awaiting the next miracle my way,
While my hair turns ever so gray
Thinking about small wonders now,
And...
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Categories:
whirligigs, fun, imagination, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Relaxation of Faerie Forest
...For our friend, Caren:
RELAXATION OF FAERIE FOREST
dosido, arm in arm
through the pinefill
of faeries. celebratory shakes,
knowing nothing of masks.
protected from human mistakes.
clinking...
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Categories:
whirligigs, celebration, fantasy, friendship, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Imagination
...Hence, I plunge into imagination to encumber suffering,
Athwart are the horizons wider than my pride,
I, one but three, such a symbolic trope, the Trinity,
A gorgeous exaltation gorged into voraci...
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Categories:
whirligigs, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Summer Cold
...dim and dismal green
disconnected from the sun
waiting on the rain
the leaves dull-humid
still-standing, no breeze blowing
expectant of drench
a relief of burns
the Summer cold to the touc...
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Categories:
whirligigs, rain, weather,
Form: Choka
Haiku 123
...aged
leaflets
gold and crisp
hued
scarlet
whirligigs
wind
briskly
blows and shakes
yard
lettuce
raked and tossed
bones
of oak
left leafless
9/14/2018...
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Categories:
whirligigs, autumn, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku
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