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Desert Rose You grow on sandy blankets, like s You dip toward a sky’s dotted and You soak beneath heaven’s lampligh Stars bow to your gaze and a dry, You are an oasis of pungently swee 7 4
My Bonnet A song, not sought, intruding Robbing my fairy dust–my happy tho A song, stomping loud and robust u She hovers over me, a dancing bonn What a blue, warm haven she is upo 2 2
Frost Frost touches tree pines, as sun s Near, are those fairy silver-sheen Cold, this icy bend, illuminated b Where lakes froze, and those spiri All is genteel & kind—quiet as tho 4 3
Crown Shyness In woods blown by a wind’s unharne On those higher, mightier planes o Such is cracked mud drinking reple Liana climbs the art strewn canopy Liana touches each tree-being, dra 6 1
We Write Once More I will Of me and I, within my heart writ With feathered flanked pens on par Thus words grow old and dusty; yet Growing eternally, stamping moonli 4 3
YOU You were once ashes of molten, bur Now, you are star dust bursting th Y-O-U are diamonds forged within You are celestial fountainheads in You are a soothing center, rooted 3 2
Unicorn In mystic waves she floats amidst From enchanting slumbers she arise She travels from ocean to beach be She is a rarity, like fallen stars Her flauntless, spiraling headland 4 2
Nighthawk I could smell rain saturating air, As I sat on my concrete porch—its As my heart quickened, I could se I envisioned him looming in the pi His beady eyes of black beckoning 3 2
She Haunts Us She hangs on my wall—a maiden of To death she sailed away whilst wr her hair, like spindled gold spun She sings her mournful song with m Her touchless dalliances rest insi 3 3
Politics Politics, what say ye? May you play the game fair? This is only a wanton wish A fools hope My hope 5 2
Live These moments, I love, in tranqui Ever a dream rising in life’s blis Dreams may weigh heavy in our long Such heaviness leaves us distraugh Yet, there is no need for hopeless 5 3
Sleepless Sleepless, I am As a breathless, stainless night t Noises of my house awaken My pillow is a rock beneath my res Dreams awaite me, sifting through 4 5
BIRTH Spring was our birth A season of airy hycinths and viol Summer produced a jungle A juncture, wild and spellbound by Autumn relinquished a solemn breez 7 1
Black Swan Beauty I am a transformative swan of deep I sing with gentle muses on Apoll In many a dream, I dance with gra My inky, starless hues are a vast In a suffering, aphotic morose, my 3 3
THE END Starting anew With wishes and stars With new lives and living tabernac With new shorlines glowing underne A glimmer 6 6
Sublimity We argue of creation and God’s tr In her perfection she denotes With each star synchronized, in ha For one alteration could cause a d Her science surely precise, as ear 5 1
Shangri-la Tides I, so long for Shangri-la tides c My heart's deepest whims thus desi Therein I walk roads gold, herald Jasper, jeweled by jade forests an Sappheiros, a holy stone wisely ad 2 4
A Wolf in Shadows A wolf follows me, his musky, onyx He’s always there, with a simperin I envision his bite venomous, like He is my fear trapped within, my d His venom is the poison of thought 4 1
From Dust and Ash A thunder and lightning's dance st Life moving swiftly, like drifting ’Tis the luster of a barren wilder Thus, she dreams of what hides wit Dashing to corners strewn by unpav 1
Yellowstone 2 bear stops, of grizzly grey and Mamma Black, and cubs, enjoying a Geysers bubble; pressure ignited Hot boiling dew rises as bison tak Springs run hot 2 1
Stories of My Grandfather During my childhood, stories were He was young when he went to war, Many missions he flew, dropping bo A miracle he survived—Distinguish Hero sung and honored—exemplified 5 3
My, Orchid Blue Many an Orchid ’tis fair and choi Many anew, florid with rosy, blush Betimes, simply bearing brightness She is efflorescent and oft gently We walk jungle cliffs overlooking 12 6
I, Sleep on Moons I imagine I’m sitting On the edge of moons Seeing what is to become My future If only we could see what befalls 6 3
Window to My Soul The inner me is never simplistic I am filled with miraculous wonder My eyes lift as open windows, reve Evil no longer conceals its naked I rise through timbers burning wit 6 3
Baby Boy Baby boy, you write essesnses of j Tis’ truest melodies of love—joy s No word to describe this feeling o As your long awaited arrival has f Our eyes gaze upon each other mome 8 3
Transfiguration Hope is a design of expanding, uto Hope is a genteel medicine of fair ’Tis magick An emblem of authentic truth in wh By and by, vibrantly cherished joy 8 4
A Vision Magic, like sparkling dews falling In her Compassionate, mother She nourishes with fruitful fortit Tranquil, mother 2 1
émigré They are the banished and branded; Castoff like stones plucked into w Coalesced, Fleeing Indignantly hunted 2
With Thine Heart To this be true, with thine heart Live always for a rose’s breath up Live for hands gentle and voices c Live for kind words dancing with c To warm lips and admiring eyes be 6 4
Tīgras Drawn with a burnished ink—a Tige An illuminating spirit of élan ele An agile grace unseen in cloaking A quiet gallop of balletic grace His eyes like lanterns in sanguine 3 1
Old Birch Tree •From the genus Betula; (Betula a I enjoy a quacking aspen, a larch, Yet, none I enjoy more than a Bet ’Twas nightly moons gleaming-away, Serenity, amongst a scurry of nigh 3 4
Extinction Hearts beating their final round—l Spring gullies dipping into nature Nigh, approaching the inevitable f ’Tis a beautiful fate! Wooded gardens I admire 5 1