Tag: nature
group name: wordpainting
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July 20, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
The robin's alarm and the crow's rude cackle are all to be sensed...
The world still sleeps, except for the birds of pre-dawn...
So complete is the darkness here, no laws exist, . . . more
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July 07, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
See the sly boy's face...
Between the thicket of two pines...
Look up, see the sunshafts...
Busting through branches, through leaves and tangle...
Of maple fronting . . . more
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July 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
He's quite certain that his parched throat, his squint means no disrespect to the sun.
Morning breaks and with comes the bravery of songbirds seeking food
It humbles him ... . . . more
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March 19, 2007 09:20 PM EDT --
cold snowrain dances out my window,
pushes crocus further toward the mantle;
I await the hush,
when sunlight streams,
world stops,
holds its breathe a moment in eternity,
while the purple pupa
pushes . . . more
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May 07, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Acts of nature answer to no one...
the law of nature doesn't require law ful deeds,
just phenomenal ones.
An act of God is their defence,
and who are we . . . more
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July 03, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
The United States is the land I love.
Vast, majestic, in turns rugged and gentle--this . . . more
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December 10, 2006 06:18 AM EST --
Wind gliding tiger
Prismatic paper thin leaves
Wings of a monarch
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May 02, 2008 12:18 AM EDT --
I've been working hard on this one. I hope you like it. It has a happy ending, and a sad one at the same time.
A Rescue
Massive in its sleek and lumpy form,
the right whale, barnacled . . . more
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October 08, 2006 12:15 AM EDT --
Another winter is fast approaching, fall not quite here, yet the signs of seasons ending are all around. The other day I watched with certain sadness as the pool man battened down the hatches and . . . more
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July 27, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
Growing up in New Jersey, my most beloved vacations would take place at the Jersey Shore--yes, I said "The Jersey Shore" and not a tropical getaway or posh hotspot. Trekking to Lavalette, NJ, . . . more
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September 04, 2006 05:39 PM EDT --
we all sigh when a tree dies
and when leaves dissolve to dust
we all cry when our time flies
but the circling cycles must
continue writing on the lines of time
and we, our poems keep scratching
. . . more
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January 20, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
I woke up this morning in the dark with a poem in my mind. It went something like this:
What prods cats,
to . . . more
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March 28, 2007 01:19 AM EDT --
A lonely sentinel
of mortar and stone
a purpose long since served,
stands surrounded
by the rustle of windblown leaves,
forever dead,
across supple blades
of newborn grasses...
both kissed . . . more
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May 26, 2007 05:25 PM EDT --
Above Darkening skies
Soaring high, soaring free
Iridescent sun
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June 29, 2007 06:35 PM EDT --
Gosling, come. Gosling, come nestle under my wing.
Mother, will you protect me?
Gosling, I will. I will shelter you from storms and from those who would eat you or hunt you..
Mother, will you show . . . more
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November 24, 2006 09:00 AM EST --
Sigh of mesquite air
Clouds exhale cushions of ice
Santa Fe winter
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September 06, 2006 09:03 AM EDT --
Someday Love
Substance of a summer ending with dreams drifting
Rain falling on the canvas of a song on the stereo
Words to touch a heart with care
Ducks floating along lake surface
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May 09, 2007 02:39 AM EDT --
The following little narrative is in response to those who requested a final report on my previously posted article, "Up For Crabs!"
I.
A week or two or three ago I wrote how my wife . . . more
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August 29, 2006 07:22 PM EDT --
I look out
under a heavy, concrete sky.
What do you make of that?
A day when the clouds are made of concrete.
So I heaved
with my chisel and hammered
chipping away at the
range of mountains . . . more
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November 30, 2007 10:47 AM EST --
Autumn falls away
On the path to yesterday
December descends
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