Author: cfblack
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Praenuntius Amphibius
After night falls In the dark They call Over here! Over here! Pick me! Pick me! Before day rises In the dark They call Over here! Over here! Pick me! Pick me! Do they know The forecast calls For stormy weather? A built in weather app Would be nice Deflate larynxes Turn hormonal stew on…
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Diary from solitaire
Think these bars…..pillars Live in a plantation mansion Lie about all day No one interrupts your reveries Clean clothes and linen You promenade the halls Guards serve you hand and foot Cuisine in need of a better chef 3-18-21 *note from wife: no idea what tags to put w/ this one
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Dancing to the hits on weather channel
Wind picks up Head bangs tree tops Limb lands in yard Dangerous downbeat Two days before equinox End of winter blowout party This rave may last hours Please, no one O.D. 3-18-21
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Faith
You never knew you were afraid of heights until you had to walk across that bridge. Don’t look down. Look up. Say, yes, believe; take the first step. The abyss is powerless to stop you 3-17-21
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alliterative tanka (5-7-5-7-7)
moist misty morning drizzle drip drops dim daylight whispers wet wakings murmur…murmur…murmuring rhythmic rivulets reply 3-16-21
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winter rain haikus
rain drops are blameless concentric circles collide winter weeps all day green water swimmers long-legged blue heron, grey geese and yellow pollen stamens and pistils white blossoms dancing in rain fall exhausted to ground 3-16-21
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pre-dawn haikus
frogs trilled mating songs slowly, the trees went silent one still calls at dawn waiting in the dark watching neighbors’ lights come on possum waddles home birds announce spring break tree blossoms await first light school bus squeaks, not me
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morning haikus at daughter’s kitchen table
chickens cluck in coop cat cries at granddaughter’s door cuddles her awake in an urban zoo kindness is learned behavior bunny waits its turn coffee cuts the chill long shadows on woody ground trees and sun collage 3-12-21
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a fasting poem
before darkness flees over the horizon and chill removes its coat birds anticipate dawn call out wake, wake prophecy is fulfilled light is coming the sun returns 3-10-21
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spring cleaning
I slept in this morning, because Mom kept trying to contact me from her grave Pulling me back into a dream Laying on the guilt Something about Lent And spring cleaning the kitchen Dad was calling out Alice, leave the boy alone Turn out the light and come to bed But mom kept knocking at…
