Tag Archives: Poetry

Welcome New Year

Outside the birds huddle into their winter shelters and ice begins to form on the surface of my pond. Inside all is warm and aglow. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!  

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Repurposed Poems ~ Hope Wish Belief Want

Hope forever flutters like a baby bird featherless – naked will it fly on fledgling wings or fall, a soft sack of tiny broken bones – bereft. Wish is hope suspended a floating feather drifting ever closer then sailing away … Continue reading

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on being

my hands pull out the dead shrub I pour water into a hole in the earth plant a life form birds twitter above clouds swirl the universe opens in a heartbeat stories around night fires over centuries and generations seek … Continue reading

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Harbingers

chickadees feast woodpeckers cling hummingbirds spar lapping long draughts ever more slowly koi course last light profiles pear tinged poplars against steely blue sky maple leaves big as dinner plates lie scattered wet shreds of storm clouds tangle in branches

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Batshit Tidbits

In a company of widgeons, huddled under a cloud of bats, a parliament of owls and a wisdom of wombats remark upon a loveliness of ladybirds. A convocation of eagles approach a tower of giraffes who are watching a memory … Continue reading

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