Tag: nature
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Sailing
#NaPoWriMo Day Five Today’s prompt was to write a villanelle. It’s a poetic style that is completely new to me and involves repeating two lines in specific places in the poem. As you can see I am late with this one as I had to think on it for the entire day. I hope I…
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Swing
#NaPoWriMo Day Two Today’s prompt was to write a poem which transforms the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. I have loosely followed this prompt and combined it with #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, which is also today, creating a poem from the perpective of a child with autism. I hope I have done some small justice to what…
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Tiny Hope
From my window I watch cars as they pass a line of box-like houses. A bus stop opposite shelters a gaggle of commuters, the fine April rain making them hunch like vultures as they wait. Next door a dog barks. Farther afield I hear children scream in carefree delight. Spring is trying to awaken, buds…
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No More Winter
There will be no more winter, We’ll live forever in the spring, There will be no more winter, And the birds will always sing, The icy swathes of death, Will never lay across this land, We’ll never see the fall of Summer’s beauty at its hand, The sun will live forever, There’ll be bleakness nevermore,…
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Little Green Fingers
With heat lapping at my nape and soil beneath my nails, I take a momentary break, to watch you hunt for snails, OK, you shouldn’t be weeding in the shoes I bought last night, But barefoot in the seedlings?! My heart dances at the sight! I love the frown of concentration as you try to…
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Evanescence
The route along the cobbles is silent Save for the shushing of the water wheel The grass glistens green, pear, then emerald As the winds rush through its blades with such zeal The sky is adorned with falling blossom Its scent sweeps over me like a tide I should probably get home for supper But…
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Clearing
Air so still that it freezes time, So pure that one breath will clean the aches and ails and other grime that pollute each fragile being. A blanket of blue has been unfurled, Embroidered with sheer white clouds, This azure tapestry wraps the world in the most awe-inspiring shroud. The crystalline surface of the lake…
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Love Sublime
On grassy bed at break of dawn, I lay with you beside, As we gaze a blue that takes the clouds and paints a Rembrandt sky, We conspire to be forever held in each other’s hearts and minds. I hold your face and take you in; Each fleck that makes your eye, Lost in the…
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Sunset
Can you hear the orange in the sunset? It whispers to the purple as they blend. Can you feel the magic while it’s working? Busy laying colours end on end. Can you see the song the sun is singing? Harmonised by palettes full and bright. Can you taste the beauty of the heavens? Its sacred…