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Graveyard of Bloom
Graveyard of bloom, cenotaph to life - all is still. Last season’s prospects come here to mark the place where the brave have fallen, and the heroes wither. Crude crosses, these - a lid to keep the...
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Field of Dreams
Field of dreams, leaves of gold, fallen fronds with palette bold. Scattered petals blessing earth, Death today, tomorrow birth.Filed under: Autumn, Beauty, Dreams, Freedom, Nature, Poetry Tagged:...
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Song of Next Year’s Moon
Hear the hum? Energy in ray-song form, calm before the new year’s storm, shimmer-shine to keep hope warm, calendarish tune. Feel the drum? Beating to a march you choose, notes which capture inner muse,...
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Morning Breaks
Morning breaks - breaks night’s grip, crushing darkness. Breaks nightmare worlds and midnight prowls. Breaks evening’s despair and twilight’s angst. The break of day brings such beauty, such hope,...
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Of Birth and Death
Window to another world where Narnia is freed at last, where what the winter wind has hurled can settle into Ice Age past. Death to one sounds living knell, swan song’s notes to bury snow; Spring...
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Hold Your Breath
Hold your breath, you mortals dressed in borrowed skin; this flesh is none the wiser for all its pomp and frenzy, nor more permanent for all its sheer transparency. Tread lightly on this hallowed...
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Rapunzel
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, I want to climb up that glorious stair And sail to the stars on your sunbeams of light; Tell me you’ll let down your tresses tonight. . Rapunzel, Rapunzel,...
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The Tailor
Scurrying, hurrying, frantic to-do-worrying, blind-eyed, soul-dried, blinkers block the view. Slowing, knowing, intake of the blowing, raising, gazing, comprehending blue. Standing, landing,...
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The Sower
These blades, Guillotine to slice flesh From bone, shred all semblance of comfort. This rack, Gears ground like teeth on edge, Stretch faith beyond breaking. Suffering gouges,...
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Ode to Spring
Tentative stretches Life stirs in winter’s graveyard Corpses are reborn Filed under: Freedom, Growth, Haiku, Healing, Hope, Nature, Poetry, Seasons, Springtime Tagged: grave, growth, haiku, hope,...
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Postlude
Silent sleeps the fallen snow, Guardian of life below; Hope in temporary tomb, Destination: brand-new bloom.Filed under: Encouragement, Hope, Nature, Poetry Tagged: bloom, destiny, dreams, healing,...
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Epilogue
Out of the fire, something to eat, Out of the chaos, something sweet; As sure as the sunrise from darkness is torn, After the heartache, Hope is reborn. **** My husband and I stumbled across a...
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I, Rapunzel, clutched the tighter to my golden mane; You, the wooer, prince and fighter, struggled to unchain All those strands that held me captive to the distant past; Strangled hopes and maladaptive...
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