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The Coming of Spring
When in an evening of sweet quiet dream
I gaze at the stars for beauty it brings
Like a pool full of swimming minnows team
A tree full of returning songirds that sings
My heart beat captures the raindrops that dance
A warm breeze blowing the first smell of spring
Exciting time for pairing and romance
A tree swelling proud with its new growth ring
As much in my eye as my heart grows fond
Past empyreal springs have come and gone
Auspicious another lies still beyond
Celestial horizons casts dreams on
Moments we have are like moments we share
For when everyone knows Spring's in the Air
I gaze at the stars for beauty it brings
Like a pool full of swimming minnows team
A tree full of returning songirds that sings
My heart beat captures the raindrops that dance
A warm breeze blowing the first smell of spring
Exciting time for pairing and romance
A tree swelling proud with its new growth ring
As much in my eye as my heart grows fond
Past empyreal springs have come and gone
Auspicious another lies still beyond
Celestial horizons casts dreams on
Moments we have are like moments we share
For when everyone knows Spring's in the Air
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Posted: Jan 2013
About this poem:
Spring is just around the bend. Look at how all the stars have shifted in the night sky!One Winter Night
How deep resolves an achromatic moon
Shining brightist when all gloaming begets
Will comfort me late past an aft'a noon
Sinking deepest in silent silhouettes
Happy stars watch you pull the tides along
The rolling surf crests high her icy glaze
Come night ne'er blinds a glowing sky so strong
Nor an earth to rest in her brumal days
Winter paints a barren landscape numb
Soundless chilled by shades of snow and moon
Fleeing air heavy down from heights succumb
Spilling deeply into hushed meadows strewn
Burning into night stars shining so bright
The vast hibernal sky 'comes black and white
Shining brightist when all gloaming begets
Will comfort me late past an aft'a noon
Sinking deepest in silent silhouettes
Happy stars watch you pull the tides along
The rolling surf crests high her icy glaze
Come night ne'er blinds a glowing sky so strong
Nor an earth to rest in her brumal days
Winter paints a barren landscape numb
Soundless chilled by shades of snow and moon
Fleeing air heavy down from heights succumb
Spilling deeply into hushed meadows strewn
Burning into night stars shining so bright
The vast hibernal sky 'comes black and white
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Posted: Jan 2013
About this poem:
These cold, colorless New England winter nights sedate such solemn feelings.Angels And Dinosaurs
Swoop down come you all on your golden wings
Beckonning my pleas for your safety brings
Shining green eyes and a lizard tongue sings
With a shrilling voice from the King of Kings
No greater raptor on earth can compare
For only your fossils in earth lie bare
Waiting once again for the truth do dare
For all who knows your mystery beware
Perchance angelic image was all wrong
Art and form never human all along
In our hearts we do fear where you belong
When so much your legend became our song
Once upon a time before we humans
You were Glory, Alleluia, Amen
Beckonning my pleas for your safety brings
Shining green eyes and a lizard tongue sings
With a shrilling voice from the King of Kings
No greater raptor on earth can compare
For only your fossils in earth lie bare
Waiting once again for the truth do dare
For all who knows your mystery beware
Perchance angelic image was all wrong
Art and form never human all along
In our hearts we do fear where you belong
When so much your legend became our song
Once upon a time before we humans
You were Glory, Alleluia, Amen
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Posted: Jan 2013
About this poem:
A fantasy sonnet about dinosaurs being 'true angels' once living on our planet and down through the ages we mortals have arose but are still waiting their return. It's kind of a strange poem even for my standards not to take anything away from Botticelli who so inspires me with his "Birth of Venus", but maybe he got it all wrong?? :))The Moon Will Cry
Lifting the smog beyond the city lights
Far away molecules drift out of sight
Perhaps on a vapor trail from distant flights
Crossing up strange patterns into the night
Seldom seen on western horizons far
Busy travel in the atmosphere so high
Those little trails that smoke under a star
To make one wonder just how high we fly
The train still whistles on the tracks nearby
Travelling on from from city to city
The sounds of sirens always fill the sky
Like the night winds fill our hearts with pity
No reason exists for the moon will cry
Except for the fact that our earth will die
Far away molecules drift out of sight
Perhaps on a vapor trail from distant flights
Crossing up strange patterns into the night
Seldom seen on western horizons far
Busy travel in the atmosphere so high
Those little trails that smoke under a star
To make one wonder just how high we fly
The train still whistles on the tracks nearby
Travelling on from from city to city
The sounds of sirens always fill the sky
Like the night winds fill our hearts with pity
No reason exists for the moon will cry
Except for the fact that our earth will die
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Posted: Jan 2013
About this poem:
An expose on pollution. I hope it shames all those whom disregard our fragile planet into some action.A Winter's Thaw
Melt water swashes over jagged ice
Warm southern breeze lift high my piney boughs
From sleepy dens do gentle days entice
Awakened forest dweller cause to rouse
Wash warmer my face in your golden rays
Make my step bounce a little brighter yet
With nature walks the youth of early days
And all her promises of spring be met
For a winter's thaw in my heart be kept
Close by this meadow's memories be born
Running down where the flood waters be swept
Washing me clean over rocks well be worn
Dances a warm winter's glowin' sunbeam
Does make my world a little less extreme
Warm southern breeze lift high my piney boughs
From sleepy dens do gentle days entice
Awakened forest dweller cause to rouse
Wash warmer my face in your golden rays
Make my step bounce a little brighter yet
With nature walks the youth of early days
And all her promises of spring be met
For a winter's thaw in my heart be kept
Close by this meadow's memories be born
Running down where the flood waters be swept
Washing me clean over rocks well be worn
Dances a warm winter's glowin' sunbeam
Does make my world a little less extreme
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Posted: Jan 2013
About this poem:
A reflective poem sharing some introspective thoughts and feelings about winter life when after many frozen days comes a little January thaw which 'more' than serves to refresh a winter-weary soul. :)))A Winters' Sunrise
In a frozen world that will never last
Those cupric blues and ferric yellow glass
An expanse of ice that is just too vast
A beautitful mosaic in nature's grasp
Such a savage wind will the sculptor show
Besides crack'd cedar fence posts in-a-row
Nature's deft display on fields of snow
As early sunrise casting shadows grow
Upside a tricklin' brook with ice so thin
No more purer water has ever been
Many fresh tracks leading back where from when
Back and forth from some softwood forest den
All around, 'who' knows most the secrets hid
Resting, a sage old owl whispers 'who' did
Those cupric blues and ferric yellow glass
An expanse of ice that is just too vast
A beautitful mosaic in nature's grasp
Such a savage wind will the sculptor show
Besides crack'd cedar fence posts in-a-row
Nature's deft display on fields of snow
As early sunrise casting shadows grow
Upside a tricklin' brook with ice so thin
No more purer water has ever been
Many fresh tracks leading back where from when
Back and forth from some softwood forest den
All around, 'who' knows most the secrets hid
Resting, a sage old owl whispers 'who' did
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Posted: Jan 2013
About this poem:
Out one early mid-winter morning I strolled across the scenes above, for truly silent becomes the night when a new day and a new year is being born. I'm making references when ice forms is has colors, usually blues and yellows, and the reason is that forms contains divalent atoms of copper(blue) and iron(yellow); thus considering the source of ground springs that will form ice cover over stones which I'm calling glass is actually ice. And the owl, oh well, he was just there watching everything and telling me what was going on. :)Icicles
Dripping icicles grow outside windows
Trapped behind these ice spears creates my cage
Sun refusing to rise makes eiry shadows
Oh short these days and long these nights we age
Quiet the sound of falling snow is mute
Spared but a slight breeze whistle in the twig
Ol' Jack Frost plucking on his off tune lute
Delighted when his captives hear his gig
A starving bird huddles on chimney peak
With fluffy feathers struggles to stay warm
A berry dangles in its tiny beak
Softly thaws in labored breath changin' form
These coldest darkest days of midwinter
'waiting for these pendent spears to splinter
Trapped behind these ice spears creates my cage
Sun refusing to rise makes eiry shadows
Oh short these days and long these nights we age
Quiet the sound of falling snow is mute
Spared but a slight breeze whistle in the twig
Ol' Jack Frost plucking on his off tune lute
Delighted when his captives hear his gig
A starving bird huddles on chimney peak
With fluffy feathers struggles to stay warm
A berry dangles in its tiny beak
Softly thaws in labored breath changin' form
These coldest darkest days of midwinter
'waiting for these pendent spears to splinter
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
Reminiscing through frosty windows and dangling icicles such that sometimes I am feeling rather blue to be confined inside my house on many such stormy winter days.Clefts In The Rock
Snow falls softly over quiet meadow
A soliloquy of stillness pervades
My floating thoughts are only an echo
Humanity hesitates and evades
A chilling cold becomes a welcomed hush
Old smile still frozen on its sightless face
Beautiful eyes once filled with tears so lush
Death welcomes all in its muted embrace
Sadly life abandons our greatest Host
A rusted barbed wire strand become our crown
Mankind becoming cold, deaf as a post
Maybe a branch a knife will whittle down
Come gather together my scattered flock
Time to stop hiding 'tween clefts in the rock
A soliloquy of stillness pervades
My floating thoughts are only an echo
Humanity hesitates and evades
A chilling cold becomes a welcomed hush
Old smile still frozen on its sightless face
Beautiful eyes once filled with tears so lush
Death welcomes all in its muted embrace
Sadly life abandons our greatest Host
A rusted barbed wire strand become our crown
Mankind becoming cold, deaf as a post
Maybe a branch a knife will whittle down
Come gather together my scattered flock
Time to stop hiding 'tween clefts in the rock
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
A deliberate use of metaphor to protest against the emptiness of violent death......and the complete lack of faith, hope, charity, and love sometimes found in my fellow man in this sometimes desolate world as one would imagine if one could gaze across a barren winter battlefield.Dreams of Sparkly Things
Glittering silver scales of a brook dace
Slivers 'neath ice of fast cold mountain streams
Moving magic shown on crystal ball's face
Shrouded in her eyes an ol' gypsy gleams
Cast adrift in the night the heavens' bring
Tiny clusters of far'way sparkly things
Voices of angels serenading sing
Floating notes reflected off golden wings
Gazing snowswept fields in moonbeams' glimmer
Tiny icicles sway from pine branch boughs
Flocking night birds silver saucers' shimmer
Up and over the drifting swirling snows
Giant unblinking golden eyes still search
When seen high upon a dead tree I perch
Slivers 'neath ice of fast cold mountain streams
Moving magic shown on crystal ball's face
Shrouded in her eyes an ol' gypsy gleams
Cast adrift in the night the heavens' bring
Tiny clusters of far'way sparkly things
Voices of angels serenading sing
Floating notes reflected off golden wings
Gazing snowswept fields in moonbeams' glimmer
Tiny icicles sway from pine branch boughs
Flocking night birds silver saucers' shimmer
Up and over the drifting swirling snows
Giant unblinking golden eyes still search
When seen high upon a dead tree I perch
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
Just imagining completely looking through the eyes of a great snowy owl in this one....Mystery Of Faith
The wind blew wild across the angels' wings
When all salvation is a timely thing
Hear the trumpets sounding triumphant rings
Knowing the new found Prince of Peace will bring
Across the winter seas of ice and cold
A Christmas tale be told again and known
Since today is not unlike the days of old
When spreading faith is like a seed that's blown
Only then across the cold fields of life
Within our hearts are warmed by such desire
Be known for more then just a life in strife
Wearing ecclesiastical attire
For when all you shall seek in faith conceals
Parting in clouds of mystery reveals
When all salvation is a timely thing
Hear the trumpets sounding triumphant rings
Knowing the new found Prince of Peace will bring
Across the winter seas of ice and cold
A Christmas tale be told again and known
Since today is not unlike the days of old
When spreading faith is like a seed that's blown
Only then across the cold fields of life
Within our hearts are warmed by such desire
Be known for more then just a life in strife
Wearing ecclesiastical attire
For when all you shall seek in faith conceals
Parting in clouds of mystery reveals
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Posted: Dec 2012
About this poem:
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