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Four Seasons
FOUR SEASONS Snowflakes, starry winter-flowers falling from the far-off sky. Tumbling lightly, shining brightly, dancing downward, piling high on the town’s tall garden fences, roofs of houses; all around blanketing the whole wide city. Icicles, those glittering crystals, sun-drenched, gleaming, … Continue reading
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The Bee
THE BEE A lake that mirrors faithfully and gives back my reflection reflects my thoughts. Oh water, essence of my being, so still at times, I dare not breathe. I feel like sending you my soul, I think, and right … Continue reading
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The Park Bench
THE PARK BENCH Photo courtesy Wayne Thiel Up here, the sky is menacing, a cloudbank, dense and dark when from that bank a light streams forth. In me it finds its mark, falls on fall-painted leaves, so soft, and softens, … Continue reading
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The Sky and I
THE SKY AND I American flag hoisted high by the curb noisily rattling the glaring sun two days to Columbus Day. One autumn leaf, absent-minded, joining the ground by my feet. Car motors, traffic-ribboned, drowning out leaf sound, bird-song. How … Continue reading
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The Window Pane and I
The Window Pane and I Seven days of winter rain. Seems I am the window pane. Rain-drenched branches weigh the tree, and my knee is full of pain. Inner gloom and outer gloom squeeze my heart. “Time out, make room,” … Continue reading
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On a Moment’s Loan
ON A MOMENT’S LOAN Dew fresh, the world is all brand-new, air-rippled, trembling, crystal-blue. Beneath the pine, stand upright, straight, brown cones that fell and tumbled down. Yet now it seems as if they’d grown in rows of circles ’round … Continue reading
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Green Greetings
GREEN GREETINGS There’s a chubby green face in the old gnarled tree. It sits tippy-top on a twig. It’s got eyes, nose and mouth and … fancy that: it’s even got a wig. Then the wind comes and takes it, … Continue reading
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Strictly for the Birds
Strictly For The Birds While reading I can hear you sing insisting so to put away my book and pay attention to your thrills, your songs, your company. You sit there, then you fly amongst the treetops and amongst green … Continue reading
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Bluebells
Bluebells Bluebells, how they dance and swing on the meadow where they bring heav’n to earth! I hear them ring faintly first, then, as they cling globe to globe they seem to sing cherished melodies of old. Oh, the joy … Continue reading
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