A Tossing and Turning Night
...In a tossing and turning night, to wake up I forgot
Never slipping from a series of perpetual dream
A strange situation over and again, escape I could not
In the fabric of this woolgather, I could...
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Categories:
woolgather, dream, night,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
If I Could Dream Those Eyes
...If I could dream those eyes, bright stars! I’d be a Man, again!
(By which, I mean, awake to every need)
If I could sheathe the sword in stone, I’d learn to couch the pen,
And write words that sug...
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Categories:
woolgather, appreciation, care, lonely, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Chestnut Blight
...As each fatigued day culls my nature
Mine mind does Judas thee
And tinker pon the waves of hope
Muted Banshee
My blighted roots once writhed hitherto
Severed from earths comely breast
Mother natures...
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Categories:
woolgather, hope, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Sizes Matter
..."sizes matter" chirped the hatter before
popping the size 8 and 1/4 on his head
and jumping theatrically into his bed
hat and clothes all snuggled into dreams
"things aren't always what they seem"
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Categories:
woolgather, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
What Should I Write Next?
...Sulphurous moments, shadowed
beneath natures natural defences
Tenderly swaying, the coconut palm
leaves transmute devising my fan blades
Refrigerant elegance appreciated greatly
chilled iride...
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Categories:
woolgather, imagination
Form: Free verse