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Whisper of Autumn
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” Indian Summer]” ― John Howard Bryant Cool whisperof autumn in dawn’smorning breezedespite the brazen sun’s warmth on my facerefreshing relief Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #194 Synonyms only Hint & Bold
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Silver Threads
Silver threads woven through my hair where once I defied my true agean etching of lines on a weathered face leaving a map of where I’ve been. For a pandemic raging and a cancer in my breast have done their damage and left me-naked, for this disease… Continue Reading “Silver Threads”
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Cacophony of Song
I sat on the garden bencheavesdropping on lovebird’s chatterMarveling at their cacophony of songdancing on the airI pondered what their sounds meantand then at once, understood their lamentfor underneath the mesquite treelay a tiny lifeless feathered spirit dVerse Poets Pub: Quadrille– What’s That Rustling… Continue Reading “Cacophony of Song”
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Bird’s Eye View
From where I sit the world’s crazy no where to turn, future hazy So I’ll rest high in my tree because here at least I’m free I’ll watch golden grasslands sway delight in gazelles at play From where I sit the world’s crazy No… Continue Reading “Bird’s Eye View”
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The Feather’s Gift
She gathers feathers and broken blue eggs, discarded treasures from the birds A shadow box of wispy memories are proof that life endures. Author’s Note: Reposting this from last September. It’s been a long week of radiation treatments. I am grateful to have the… Continue Reading “The Feather’s Gift”
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Morning Moon
Morning moon waning after nightpearly beams of lightvanishing in brilliant sun raysas dark becomes dayin the evenings a wayward breezeshadows dance with leavesas birds take roost in swaying treesyearning arises once againa cool caress upon my skinpearly beams of light, as dark becomes day,… Continue Reading “Morning Moon”
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Lost
“One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.” ― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever In the darkness I have my dreamsof a time when body and soulcame together to make a wholeThese days nothing is as… Continue Reading “Lost”
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