Category: Poetry

This Poem is a Thunderstorm, a Desert Wash and Wildflowers

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

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This poem is a thunderstorm raging across the scrubby desertlightning striking mammoth saguaros, leaving behind a spectral skeleton to rot in the coming hot summer sunThis poem is the sound of cold plops of rain hitting dry earth. This poem is a flooding wash,… Continue Reading “This Poem is a Thunderstorm, a Desert Wash and Wildflowers”

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Plume Grass

Posted on February 23, 2019 by

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While you decline to cry, high on the mountainside a single stalk of plumegrass wilts. © Ō no Yasumaro (circa 711), (Tr. Michael R. Burch) drying in the golden sunbreeze spreading delicate wisps Carpe Diem Tan Renga

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Full Snow Moon

Posted on February 22, 2019 by

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full snow moon stirs the ladybug on cold bare branches © Hamish scarlet splash on black fingerslonging for the warmth of spring a new day brings joybudding branches floweringfresh season beckons ladybugs feast on aphidsprotecting new growth Author’s Note: From the Carpe Diem challenge,… Continue Reading “Full Snow Moon”

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A Glimmer, A Shine

Posted on February 21, 2019 by

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Greytodayblue skies fadegive way to woeas soft raindrops fallupon my face, eagerto wash away my dismayI say a prayer, ask for peaceto rid my soul of despair and griefand through stormy clouds a glimmer, a shinea beam of hope, peeking through dreary skiesthe spirited… Continue Reading “A Glimmer, A Shine”

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Purple Rain

Posted on February 20, 2019 by

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water reflection– a flying squirrel across the wisteria’s mantle © Takarai Kikaku (Tr. unknown)velvet petals kiss the ponda downpour of purple rain Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge

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Many Lives

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

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Once, in a past life reading, a psychic told me in one of my previous lives I was a black man living on a southern plantation shortly after the Civil War. In this life, I was in my twenties, recently ‘freed’ and hungry for… Continue Reading “Many Lives”

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In a Spring Garden

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

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Gentle breeze and sweet sunshine in a spring garden where vivid green tendrils vine and climb murmuring to wild roses blossoming spirits Come, feel the quiet solitude of verdant trees for harmony is here in ancient forest boughs while wandering the yielding mossy path… Continue Reading “In a Spring Garden”

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