Belated Words

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Tag: poetry

  • Gossamer Chain

    Clinking gossamer of phantom links

    Weak as will, strong as adoration,

    Binds us One from our separate shores,

     

    At times, dangling to currents tumult,

    Jerking, teasing a tangled bereavement.

    But, at times, tensing to beams of bliss.

  • Plastic Flowers

    Gaia reveals the truth, at times,

    Not subtly, but rocking….tumbling

    What we deem rock and tumble proof.

    That flora in that window box,

    So bright and white and red; erect

    Despite this freeze? Distance deceives

    Our naive hearts and eyes effortlessly.

    Scent would have squealed; revealed the fib.

    Too high the price a sniff demands?

    We “hem and haw” and she larks.

    Our claims of dominion, our crow,

    As meaningless as plastic blooms.

  • Haiku: poetic license

    poetic license….

    flung to lime pond scum…“There frog!” 

    Nonrefundable! 

  • Haiku: Thief

     Honeybees…. zing…zing

    Divining pure sustenance

    I take it from them!

  • Haiku: dream

     

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    Winters harsh dream gone…

    yet…seeping residue…angst

    path on cracked blue ice.

  • haiku

    “What does the lake feel?”

    Emerald depth

    cold    weighed down    resisting

    dreaded ascension

  • haiku: walking Fuzz

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     dead leaves rasp the street

    smashed turtle at our feet—blood

    caution—slow approach

     

    respectful soft sniff 

    looking up to me—confused?

    unable to speak

  • Haiku: our street

     

    blinded windows locked

    fireflies taunting us…blink…glow 

    mystic in plump dusk 

     

  • Haiku

    shells fall as spring rain…

    the widows child dies…and yet

    hearts are leaping pups

  • Weather

    “What is this weather in my soul?

    This nameless weather:

    Squirrel’s flag-tail pulsating

    A silent, nil day.

    Exceptional drought……

    memory’s ceaseless loop roils;

    turkey vultures soar.