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Sonnets for the Seasons
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Gifts
I grow everything I can bushels of words smoothed into shapes with gilt edges pile up in corners waiting for someone for someone’s hand for an eye, an ear a heart to hold them. Gifts cannot be themselves until someone … Continue reading
Posted in Free verse, Patience, Poetry
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Sleep (love sonnet for my husband)
Silky touch of peaceful spirit falls all feather-soft as fractal-rich dreams call to sweeten darkness, brush away all fears, kaleidoscopic vision of dreams nears. Thus sweet disorders range throughout the night, eliminate confusion from daylight, let clarity command the thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs, Birds and Other Joys, love, Patience, Poetry, Sonnet, Uncategorized
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Time and Love (sonnet)
I choose which image I will focus on: That ragged wisp of cloud, soon burnt and gone Or red-tail hawks in swooping pas de deux– Creating flights of life – from old, the new. My hands grow weak; my back, … Continue reading
Posted in Birds and Other Joys, joy, love, Philosophy, Poetry, Sonnet
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Japanese Iris (haiku)
Japanese Iris: butterflies floating above breeze-blown green sabers
Posted in Gardening, Gardening, Usually Organic, Haiku, joy, Poetry, Summer
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Apology
I pour it all into the ground these days, Ideas, images, and words together; The sonnets, free verse, haiku–all displays Of feeling go elsewhere in warmer weather. First feed the soil–just as I first awake My senses to the world, … Continue reading
Why I Get Frustrated with Him
Skim all the beauties, virtues of all righteous men compressed into one– He’ll say, “I’m only a man trying to do what I can.”
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Song of the Perpetual Gardener
Come Spring-sun, come! Warm these hands! Soiled-stained, the Gardener stands, Reaching high and bending low, Working as the cold winds blow. Petals are a pretty sight– Full-blown flowers in bright light Decorate each hot July, Wrens sing then and bumbles … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Gardening, Usually Organic, joy, love, Patience, Poetry, Songs, Spring
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