The forest is parted by a line of asphalt. Speeding cars send leaves fluttering. Everything that crosses that road is imperiled by someone's need to get nowhere quickly.
Forest Road [Free Verse]
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Category Archives: poem
Wetlands [Haiku]
the liquid world
merges with the earth,
and both are one.
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Slant Fall [Haiku]
Autumn breeze and then a lag and then leaves fall slantwise.
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Lazy Lake [Haiku]
boats glide across the lake, barely faster than the sun drops.
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Rain Shelter [Haiku]
Scream [Free Verse]
brain numb. voice dumb. a wicked harmonic builds in the core - tuned to volcanically vibrant skies. flash fires of feeling riffle through the body. the tone dials into a whine that bursts into a scream.
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The Garden [Haiku]
the well-groomed garden holds nature at bay, only through constant effort.
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Limerick of Richard Dadd
An English painter named Richard Dadd went completely stark raving madd. He stayed in asylums - Broadmoor to Bedlam. For stabbing to death his dear old dadd.
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Under the Falls [Haiku]
cold water pounds on back & shoulders: some nerves numb; some fire wildly.
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Dark River [Lyric Poem]
flow on, Dark River; slip through the night. midnight's thick clouds block the moonlight. your voice drowned out by insect chirr. a Huck Finn raft drifts by at a blur: the rafters unseen; their secret stays hush... but for those red eyes in the underbrush.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 