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Copper Burnished Autumn
“Do you know what the earth meditates upon in autumn?”- Pablo Neruda When autumn’s burnished light drifts across the garden, copper shadows stagger onto the littered pathI ponder what leaves are feeling as they scatter at my feetDo they know their life is over… Continue Reading “Copper Burnished Autumn”
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Thoughts at a French Cafe
He thinks of her when late evening shadows fall across his haggard wrinkled face as he aches to remember every detail, wanting once more to intimately tracewith his smooth fingers the luscious shape of her hips even when she aged, were pure joy to… Continue Reading “Thoughts at a French Cafe”
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Black Petunia
Velvetblack petuniastriking a regal posemajestic shade in the gardenBlossomscaptured in bewitching moonlightaubergine in sunlightmysteriousflowers Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #152 #Poets Choice
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#Tanka: Morning Glory
morning glory! the well bucket-entangled, I ask for water © Chiyo-Ni raindrops on purple petalsglistening orbs reflect light ©2019 Linda Lee Lyberg Today, we have been given the challenge to transform a haiku by Chiyo-Ni into a tanka. Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1775 Morning… Continue Reading “#Tanka: Morning Glory”
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Fugue
A swiftly failing memory cast in hues of black and sepia an 8 MM movie flickering shadows on a blank screen caught between imagination and reality, life becomes a deep dark dream. And in this fugue mental statewhen a mind is fading, waningthoughts move… Continue Reading “Fugue”
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Cornucopia Colored Day
And I pray comforting autumn’s light will keep the smoke grey winter away brilliant colors dance as swallows take flighton this brisk cool cornucopia colored day. But I know too soon winter will come callingleaving frost on pumpkins, as snow begins falling. dVerse Poets… Continue Reading “Cornucopia Colored Day”
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Dona Nobis Pacem
‘There came a time of pestilence and ruin, when greed ruled the land.’ – Linda Lee Lyberg And the innocents of the earth rose up, and cried out with a powerful roar, There must be peace, there must be green, there must be oceans… Continue Reading “Dona Nobis Pacem”
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