Snow Wisdom Poems

ODE TO ELEPHANT


Elephant Elephant 
enveloping essence of Earth !
             I hear an elevated...

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blackbirds …

innumerable …
clouds and washes of them
I grin to myself -
symbolism …
you taught me that
and more … (and less)
you taught me the difference between
love and...

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They project at night in the wee hours looking
to see what they can harvest
Be still so that you can grow to know peace or else
the...

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She's

a

diamond

sun of snow,

envied by venus, 

lifting her peacock eyelashes 

to stargaze beyond pinkish petals of mild moonrise, 

enclosing rusts of rosy jealousy in ancient ruins...

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  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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snowy owl's feathers, 
soft and white as winter snow, 
silent sentinel…...

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Autumn grieves for summer,
Whispering her anguish to the morning,
Sighing sorrow, a heart torn, 
Sorrow born from the dying leaves,
Rustling in the winds who sing…

Melancholy, darkness...

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Seasons come and go -- 
How ends the fillings?

Recycled we know:

rain back to the sky,
leaves to soil,
sandy runoff, particle
debris, for oysters to make
pearly luxuries --...

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Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Once upon a night so bleak,
frozen silent laid the creek --
air of death, pushed, swore
and swore...as if were fists
pounded the frail, wood door;

shutters noised, bolting...

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Spies above our eyes
Poe lies, no cat so lowly
foolish -- a reader of minds no 
blinds. Snow arriving unlike his
paws, no cat to see from...

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Here I am,


In the first fling of youth-

In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?

This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black;...

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The seeds you planted shall grow.
I saw the ones you did sow,
I think that's what you should know.
You don't cocks order to crow,
The twilight to...

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"If her ill dying be not on her own head, then on whose?"
-- a rhetorical question

*   *   *

The fall appears upon...

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Ageing retainer
losing hearing
and codependent consciousness
in this silent sacred season
snoring snowy wonder

A winterish hibernating memory,
Dreams of globally peaceful slumber
resolving GoldenRules 
engaging compassionately personal 
political powering plunder
and...

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