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"sorrel" poems
That's Mugwort and that's Red Sorrel and that over there is Red Campion Jane said we were walking on the Downs the sky summery warm almost cloudless cattle mooed nearby a flock of birds flew over our heads her hand held mine skin on skin warm soft I sensed an appley scent about her we had kissed the day before and it had been other worldly and now I wanted to kiss again but didn't want to push forward but wait to see what happened and that she said is White Deadnettle smiling at me you know the countryside well I said well you Londoners know nothing of it but at least you want to learn she said I liked the flowery dress she was wearing red and yellow with a yellow sash tied about her and the white ankle socks and black shoes (slightly muddy) I observed her carefully wanting to know more of her of nature of us   and that bird back there was a pheasant she said we paused in the corn field and looked back up towards the Downs and she turned to me and kissed me and held me close and I felt almost absorbed into her body and wanted to feel more and more and she parted and said I'm no expert on kissing was that all right? not sure I'll need to try again I said smiling and she took my hand and squeezed it and kissed me again and the cattle mooed louder and a bird flew overhead spying before it took off in the sky high flying.
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 1:47 AM UTC
SKY HIGH FLYING 1961
The dayseye hugging the earth in August, ha! Spring is gone down in purple, weeds stand high in the corn, the rainbeaten furrow is clotted with sorrel and crabgrass, the branch is black under the heavy mass of the leaves— The sun is upon a slender green stem ribbed lengthwise. He lies on his back— it is a woman also— he regards his former majesty and round the yellow center, split and creviced and done into minute flowerheads, he sends out his twenty rays— a little and the wind is among them to grow cool there! One turns the thing over in his hand and looks at it from the rear: brownedged, green and pointed scales armor his yellow. But turn and turn, the crisp petals remain brief, translucent, greenfastened, barely touching at the edges: blades of limpid seashell.
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Daisy
As the warm days of summer give way to chill, and shadows grow longer as days shed their hours. High winds and rain storms scrub the tired landscape down. Colours are changing from rich green to gold, from yellow to red and orange to brown. The grain has been gathered, wheat, barley and oats, cut and collected, sifted and sorted and put into store. Grown by God, and by man with machine and by effort of hand. Poppies and stalks now mark the spot, of the return for their labour. The wealth of the land. Birds follow the tractor, rising and falling, swirling and soaring they move like a cloud. The farmer is out and turning the stubble into the ground. Rooks and crows, gulls and wood pigeons, starlings and magpies follow him round. Hay long since mown is now bailed and in barns, or rolled up and bagged, ferments now in high silage towers. The countryside has yielded reward for all Adam’s toil. Work done in rhythm with the seasons, sowing, growing, reaping, ploughing and tilling the soil. Gathering goodness, from garden, and greenhouse, carrots and courgettes, tomatoes in bunches. Fresher than any you can get in the shops. Picking the bounty gleaned from the hedgerow. Rosehips and cobnuts, damsons and hops. Elder and sorrel, mushrooms and puffballs, sour green crab apples, and brambles in tangles. Sloes that were missed by the late winter frost. Not all are pleasant and some really can hurt you, pick only those that you know and trust. Take full advantage of God’s generosity, share it with gladness, with thanks, there is plenty for all. Sticky syrups and cider, wines, cordial and beer. Pies, puddings, sorbets and ice creams, jam, jelly, and chutney and enough pickles to last into next year. As the warm days of summer give way to chill, and shadows grow longer as days shed their hours. High winds and rain storms scrub the tired landscape down. Colours are changing from rich green to gold, from yellow to red and orange to brown.
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Oct 23, 2011
Oct 23, 2011 at 3:16 PM UTC
Harvest
As the warm days of summer give way to chill, and shadows grow longer as days shed their hours. High winds and rain storms scrub the tired landscape down. Colours are changing from rich green to gold, from yellow to red and orange to brown. The grain has been gathered, wheat, barley and oats, cut and collected, sifted and sorted and put into store. Grown by God, and by man with machine and by effort of hand. Poppies and stalks now mark the spot, of the return for their labour. The wealth of the land. Birds follow the tractor, rising and falling, swirling and soaring they move like a cloud. The farmer is out and turning the stubble into the ground. Rooks and crows, gulls and wood pigeons, starlings and magpies follow him round. Hay long since mown is now bailed and in barns, or rolled up and bagged, ferments now in high silage towers. The countryside has yielded reward for all Adam’s toil. Work done in rhythm with the seasons, sowing, growing, reaping, ploughing and tilling the soil. Gathering goodness, from garden, and greenhouse, carrots and courgettes, tomatoes in bunches. Fresher than any you can get in the shops. Picking the bounty gleaned from the hedgerow. Rosehips and cobnuts, damsons and hops. Elder and sorrel, mushrooms and puffballs, sour green crab apples, and brambles in tangles. Sloes that were missed by the late winter frost. Not all are pleasant and some really can hurt you, pick only those that you know and trust. Take full advantage of God’s generosity, share it with gladness, with thanks, there is plenty for all. Sticky syrups and cider, wines, cordial and beer. Pies, puddings, sorbets and ice creams, jam, jelly, and chutney and enough pickles to last into next year. As the warm days of summer give way to chill, and shadows grow longer as days shed their hours. High winds and rain storms scrub the tired landscape down. Colours are changing from rich green to gold, from yellow to red and orange to brown.
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BAND concert public square Nebraska city. Flowing and circling dresses, summer-white dresses. Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms. And gigglers, God knows, gigglers, rivaling the pony whinnies of the Livery Stable Blues. Cowboy rags and ****** rags. And boys driving sorrel horses hurl a cornfield laughter at the girls in dresses, summer-white dresses. Amid the cornet staccato and the tuba oompa, gigglers, God knows, gigglers daffy with life's razzle dazzle. Slow good-night melodies and Home Sweet Home. And the snare drummer bookkeeper in a hardware store nods hello to the daughter of a railroad conductor-a giggler, God knows, a giggler-and the summer-white dresses filter fanwise out of the public square. The crushed strawberries of ice cream soda places, the night wind in cottonwoods and willows, the lattice shadows of doorsteps and porches, these know more of the story.
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Band Concert
baby blue stroller fire engine red wagon chrome oxide green bike yellow convertible azurite blue van sorrel colored wheelchair bronze casket
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Feb 28, 2013
Feb 28, 2013 at 9:07 PM UTC
colors
White with daisies and red with sorrel And empty, empty under the sky!— Life is a quest and love a quarrel— Here is a place for me to lie. Daisies spring from ****** seeds, And this red fire that here I see Is a worthless crop of crimson weeds, Cursed by farmers thriftily. But here, unhated for an hour, The sorrel runs in ragged flame, The daisy stands, a ******* flower, Like flowers that bear an honest name. And here a while, where no wind brings The baying of a pack athirst, May sleep the sleep of blessed things, The blood too bright, the brow accurst.
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Weeds
I lie strategically in place Innocent framework fused With royal carapace Frail and allknowing fingers clenched and intertwined, Mimicking the honest silver circuit in the night sky As candid as the shore Each slumbered and delicate breath Vitally delivered from those sublime lips Both damp and potent I get a candied wind of An accidental consolation To my crippling worry Sorrowful, I am, my love For eavesdropping, but My reveries are your keepsakes And I, Watching you sleep, carefully In A placid coma, caging waves of covenants And exhaling tokens of a life once dreamt of I envisage the unvarnished truth, your marrow as my sustentation, Your veins, My lifeline Where each filament of platinum and sorrel remain entangled and sprawled in forever, impeccably And how drawn out and vexing My intervals of lingering for you Have been And then you leak a sigh in a dream And exhale a veil of whispers Directly to my ribcage And I simper, cradling you tighter So you can breathe my craving, My contented tribute To my one veritable sentiment. And I seal it all in the midst, Of a drifted and slumbered and deathless Kiss.
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM UTC
007.
Life is displayed in the color green, Stalks of corn, a field of beans. The oak tree's leaves, the roses stem, The fresh mown hay, the forest glen. Life is displayed in the color yellow, A daffodil or lemon Jell-o. The morning sun, a buttercup's wings, A smiley face, a topaz ring. Life is displayed in the color brown, The deep rich soil at the edge of town. A chocolate chip, a sorrel foal, Steaming cocoa, a fresh baked roll. Life is displayed in the color blue, Neptune's ocean, and berries too. A mountain stream, the desert skies, But favorite to me are my little girl's eyes.
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM UTC
Colors of Life
In my dream, I was accosted by sugar ants in the sandbox, near the honeysuckle and curled parsley behind the house. I was trying to eat the little ants but was called in for cheese and baloney. When I came in, hopping in worn-out slippers, the glass door slid into the kitchen with plasterboard walls and beige ceramic tile. There was a black spider perched on the ceiling with bright yellow knees. Those years ago I drew with sidewalk chalk, made myself mazes on the sloping driveway too steep for basketball. Cicadas dragged in heat on waves, droning. One landed on me - a yell caught in my throat - but I made myself look at it and be still, shaking. Back then I had an old cape & a homemade bow-and-arrow. I’d sally forth into the backyard, barefoot, jumping over prickly mulch, brushing my shins against clouds of low love-in-a-mist with its threaded leaves & shy blue-white flowers. Sometimes my sister was back there too, tanning, or Mom carving little men out of cherry, but more often I was all alone in that wilderness in moccasins & living off wood sorrel, the brighter clover, lemony. Or in rain I listened to my brother play piano if he was home, maybe Bags and Trane, and I’d dance between shadows, the underworld of the patches of carpet in the light. Later - a little older - I recognized that home is more a time than a place, and understood I would miss it years before it was gone so around nine years old I went through every foot of that high-ceilinged house, that weedy backyard, and made a solemn farewell to everything in advance trying hard to be ready long before the time came to leave.
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Jan 12, 2010
Jan 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM UTC
Daydream
In my dream, I was accosted by sugar ants in the sandbox, near the honeysuckle and curled parsley behind the house. I was trying to eat the little ants but was called in for cheese and baloney. When I came in, hopping in worn-out slippers, the glass door slid into the kitchen with plasterboard walls and beige ceramic tile. There was a black spider perched on the ceiling with bright yellow knees. Those years ago I drew with sidewalk chalk, made myself mazes on the sloping driveway too steep for basketball. Cicadas dragged in heat on waves, droning. One landed on me - a yell caught in my throat - but I made myself look at it and be still, shaking. Back then I had an old cape & a homemade bow-and-arrow. I’d sally forth into the backyard, barefoot, jumping over prickly mulch, brushing my shins against clouds of low love-in-a-mist with its threaded leaves & shy blue-white flowers. Sometimes my sister was back there too, tanning, or Mom carving little men out of cherry, but more often I was all alone in that wilderness in moccasins & living off wood sorrel, the brighter clover, lemony. Or in rain I listened to my brother play piano if he was home, maybe Bags and Trane, and I’d dance between shadows, the underworld of the patches of carpet in the light. Later - a little older - I recognized that home is more a time than a place, and understood I would miss it years before it was gone so around nine years old I went through every foot of that high-ceilinged house, that weedy backyard, and made a solemn farewell to everything in advance trying hard to be ready long before the time came to leave.
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Moonlight touches indigo, As I create you once again in This space, a swathe of cool air Somewhere between night's breath And the golden light of dawn... Naivety wanders through rush-light, A whisper waiting on a wilderness edge, A green-eyed moon Burning hours, like thin fire, Curves my flesh...yet I am paler than sorrel... An esoteric beauty, seducing immortal; A litany of rose colour jewels Surging, softly spreading Like feathers, trailing your skin Breaching the passage of hunger... I lay upon fevered enchantment Spilled in murmurs, wrapped and trembling In the worship of your hands, Tongue and lips Whispering passion alive Melting your flesh to quiver... I taste the wild honey, captured by Lips that ache with silent cries, The sleepless dust, a crystalline prism, Suspended upon dark velvet Following the ghost of US.......
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Jul 31, 2012
Jul 31, 2012 at 5:28 AM UTC
Paler Than Sorrel:
one more for Pradip... "Poems...are never short or long, they're only more. Thanks Nat for ever filling the less." firing up the poem kiln, this intriguing provocation insistent of deserved consideration, after all, it is thy stories that these days inspire, my own stories are relentless grey, old, cold, and to my eyes, coded repetitious... neither a chaster or a chastiser, (You could look it up!) confessing readily to sinning against humanity by ecrivezing poems of length considerable, the Mexicano from Indiano releases a shotgun blast to all those whose attention spans last, to ten words or a single stanza...no more... but this not the matter of import, no, no, it is the more and the less that makes poetry the best, no matter the length or the heft... in each of us there is a more and a less, in cycles individual that are not bound to tides, weather, or any effect natural, but product of our own amber waves of chemical imbalances and mental auras... all my days have I rode waves of well hid hills of mania *** depression, contented moments surrounded and cosseted by wails of worry, sorrel colored sorrows, making the scientists amazed at the correlation of the macro and the mini, the precision of my indecision... in sixty seconds, in sixty days, in sixty years, have I battered and battled the disequilibrium of more and less, disallowing a pilloried intervention, will likely do so until that day when my pen has bled its last... this theme haunts, for but a day ago, a bus poem was blurted out, that concluded thusly: ***to survive, to justify, to mediate between these un-counterbalanced weights, I write poetry*** here I am stunned that Pradip with but a handful of seeds, exactly isolates the genetic implanted notion that I struggle to define, knowing only that my poetry fills my less, when the all the rest is just another fine mess we fill the less with our wit, we top off our souls with writs, we are more for having scribed, one read or ten thousand, it mater matters knot! look upon the pages endlessly bearing the ephemeral heavy-handed weight full of well crafted words, the good, the plenty, the sad, the sorry, the trite and cranky, those misted musty, the light and the careful, the bad and merely awful, even the drip of torrential love stories gone dry what matters not any of this over sighted analytics, each and all and everyone a success, for each poem makes someone's less lessened, and someone's more, more, and by this ever filling the less...
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 3:35 PM UTC
for ever filling the less...
one more for Pradip... "Poems...are never short or long, they're only more. Thanks Nat for ever filling the less." firing up the poem kiln, this intriguing provocation insistent of deserved consideration, after all, it is thy stories that these days inspire, my own stories are relentless grey, old, cold, and to my eyes, coded repetitious... neither a chaster or a chastiser, (You could look it up!) confessing readily to sinning against humanity by ecrivezing poems of length considerable, the Mexicano from Indiano releases a shotgun blast to all those whose attention spans last, to ten words or a single stanza...no more... but this not the matter of import, no, no, it is the more and the less that makes poetry the best, no matter the length or the heft... in each of us there is a more and a less, in cycles individual that are not bound to tides, weather, or any effect natural, but product of our own amber waves of chemical imbalances and mental auras... all my days have I rode waves of well hid hills of mania *** depression, contented moments surrounded and cosseted by wails of worry, sorrel colored sorrows, making the scientists amazed at the correlation of the macro and the mini, the precision of my indecision... in sixty seconds, in sixty days, in sixty years, have I battered and battled the disequilibrium of more and less, disallowing a pilloried intervention, will likely do so until that day when my pen has bled its last... this theme haunts, for but a day ago, a bus poem was blurted out, that concluded thusly: ***to survive, to justify, to mediate between these un-counterbalanced weights, I write poetry*** here I am stunned that Pradip with but a handful of seeds, exactly isolates the genetic implanted notion that I struggle to define, knowing only that my poetry fills my less, when the all the rest is just another fine mess we fill the less with our wit, we top off our souls with writs, we are more for having scribed, one read or ten thousand, it mater matters knot! look upon the pages endlessly bearing the ephemeral heavy-handed weight full of well crafted words, the good, the plenty, the sad, the sorry, the trite and cranky, those misted musty, the light and the careful, the bad and merely awful, even the drip of torrential love stories gone dry what matters not any of this over sighted analytics, each and all and everyone a success, for each poem makes someone's less lessened, and someone's more, more, and by this ever filling the less...
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This describes all of the cottage industry angels that men produce they are angels for profit Pure angels Zechariah 1:8 “I saw by night and behold a man riding on a red horse and it stood Among the myrtle trees in the hallow and behind him were horses red, sorrel, and white then I Said my lord what are these so the angel who talked with me said to me I will show you what They are” what they are is the most pleasurable and pure knowing of angels they are in God’s Word doing the work of God we don’t discredit angels in books but here you can have a sigh of Relief knowing assuredly their wings is not noise filled from rust or any manner of impurity Join them in complete utter trust they haven’t been set before you for any ulterior motive of Anyone the song blessed assurance doesn’t come from this but how glorious here the door is Wide open come in and dwell among sacred doings in the earth feel alone weak sad come to This clearing that appears profound all powerful truly you can mount up on angel wings soar The True dimensions of the soul unbound in delirious thrilled freedom ride on thermals created By visitors who call heaven home you will be touched by reality unknown to human thought Truly the rush of angel’s will surround you live in a beleaguered world of fallen angels that only Seek our hurt but in this rarified place where heavenly glory is readily displayed you will know Peace comfort and power adrift you are bestowed with garlands now temporarily but one day It will be replaced with a golden sacred crown on your head His gleaming light will shoot out in All directions accompanied by your joyous laughter these are truths and thoughts that will Enrobe you enthrall you the sweetest tremble the softest tenderness will beguile you where You will abide among true friends and protectors that serve God honorable just a few true Words that will truly uplift you what is being described is your birthright your treasure without Measure it’s not written in stone but in Holy love that consumes heaven’s thoughts you are the Central most desirable discussion that heaven ever has this is just one mention of that truth
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM UTC
Angles with rusty wings
This describes all of the cottage industry angels that men produce they are angels for profit Pure angels Zechariah 1:8 “I saw by night and behold a man riding on a red horse and it stood Among the myrtle trees in the hallow and behind him were horses red, sorrel, and white then I Said my lord what are these so the angel who talked with me said to me I will show you what They are” what they are is the most pleasurable and pure knowing of angels they are in God’s Word doing the work of God we don’t discredit angels in books but here you can have a sigh of Relief knowing assuredly their wings is not noise filled from rust or any manner of impurity Join them in complete utter trust they haven’t been set before you for any ulterior motive of Anyone the song blessed assurance doesn’t come from this but how glorious here the door is Wide open come in and dwell among sacred doings in the earth feel alone weak sad come to This clearing that appears profound all powerful truly you can mount up on angel wings soar The True dimensions of the soul unbound in delirious thrilled freedom ride on thermals created By visitors who call heaven home you will be touched by reality unknown to human thought Truly the rush of angel’s will surround you live in a beleaguered world of fallen angels that only Seek our hurt but in this rarified place where heavenly glory is readily displayed you will know Peace comfort and power adrift you are bestowed with garlands now temporarily but one day It will be replaced with a golden sacred crown on your head His gleaming light will shoot out in All directions accompanied by your joyous laughter these are truths and thoughts that will Enrobe you enthrall you the sweetest tremble the softest tenderness will beguile you where You will abide among true friends and protectors that serve God honorable just a few true Words that will truly uplift you what is being described is your birthright your treasure without Measure it’s not written in stone but in Holy love that consumes heaven’s thoughts you are the Central most desirable discussion that heaven ever has this is just one mention of that truth
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It was snowing too insistently, snowflakes almost as big as the eye, over nostrils, over half-open lips, over the white lace shawl from my grandmother, exactly when I was not supposed to wear it. I had the profile of a porcelain statue like a Russian girl proud of her kokoshnik. After a while I started to breathe hardly, choking first while crying, then while sighing and finally while hiccuping. Maybe because of cold and bewilderment, or because of the strange story about mulled wine with cinnamon. How could he possibly hide in my blood then when I had grown up with bitter cherries and wild sorrel leaves, when I had sipped  the milk foam my whole childhood without crying on the blanket made of rough sheep wool? How could that man travel between my heart’s mill stones without being ground down completely? Now only tears are sticking over nostrils, over half-open eyelids like a glue from a sour cherry bark wound. Not a single barrier, not a single one way sign, not a single red traffic light or at least a church with holy relics.
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 6:13 AM UTC
Blazing White
That’s Speedwell and that’s Red Sorrel Jane said pointing out the wildflowers as you both walked down the lane that led to the empty cottage with apples trees in the garden and gooseberry bushes in fruit by hedges They all look the same to me you said Just flowers growing she shook her head and smiled and said You townies do you know nothing of nature’s beauty? I’m looking at beauty now you replied and as you both walked on down the lane she in her summery dress and you in your open neck shirt and faded jeans you felt the morning sun touching your head like a fond mother and the smell of flowers and sound of birds and she said after a minute or so of silence Father says beauty is only skin deep real beauty lies in a person’s soul if that soul is not blemished by sin that is and you looked at her hand by her side swinging as she walked and the fingers curled as if she held something invisible yet ready to throw and you took in her white ankle socks above her brown sandals and the calves of her legs and her thighs just showing as the dress moved and you breathed in deep like one immersed in water about to drown of love or the feeling of such and you said I guess he’s right but I love the beauty of skin pretty much and she laughed and her laughter shooed off birds from the tree tops around who probably never heard such a beautiful sound.
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Jun 1, 2012
Jun 1, 2012 at 2:23 AM UTC
MATTER OF BEAUTY.
Withered Old Man,with a Gnarled Old Stick Seeks the Old Root Man, Mandrake for to Take Sorrel and Wolfs Bane, Night Shade and Jace He Scours the Woods for Potions to Make His hunts through the caves, for Crystals so Clear Lapis lazuli Azure Stone, Dug from Earth So Rare Bones of Hart strung with Sinew and  Nuggets of Copper Bones Carved with Ancient Signs and Wizardry Wand of Willow, Feather of Owl, In Darkest Night with Hooded Cowl Arcane Language made to Howl Calling Down the Soul, of the ****** With Enchantment the Soul is Sent On Evil Missions So Hellbent To Wither the crops and curse the Fowl Of those in Hatred flesh embowled T'is heard he moves as a Dark Shadow Lending Fear to weakened Brow A Pox upon your beating Heart A knot within your Bowels But many among the Land See an old man with a Withered hand Who hunts the woods and hills Finding things to heal your Ills.....JMF 11/26/14
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 10:17 PM UTC
Magic of Olde
Brides of whitest, delicate lace, Gowns immaculate, as snow their face Softest pink, a blush to embrace, Rose, as rising sun to race Sheets of white, 'candescent as moonlight, Waves of coral, leaves and floral, Rows of candle, as calcic stalagmite, Mauves 'n violet as wild wood sorrel. So yon maidens of sweetest spring Herald the Queen Summer's oncoming Her nectarous drupe and fruit offspring The bountiful boon she will bring. Behold the language of your Beloved Speaks in tongues of secrets vivid Of kindness, giving, eternally sipid Of warmth and fire, of ardour vivid So when next you spy the verdant maidens Bedecked finery, blossoms laden, Whispering, bowing, to one cadence, Know you see the One true Haven.
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Apr 2, 2021
Apr 2, 2021 at 6:27 AM UTC
Immaculate
I stopped off at the bank to say 'how are you' to the folks who try their hand at the day care of my dollars and the quarters of my pay I pushed back on a tall gray day, the clouds swirl by in the lead gray sky and I fly over the dry sand ox bow that runs and twists in a necklace below next, by a purring Toyota, its light glowing blank at a barn wall looking glass Unclip and the gate still open in hind sight, and I am through onto the grass no paint, no sorrel no grizzled grey hinnie, I walk through the trees tracking the sandy scuff out and up and across the overlook bluff. I hoot n call but never a whinny There's a house there with a good wire fence The trail turns east over the rough brush heath and on and on and across to a fence, worn neatly down to a barbed wire wreath and across more brush with a fresh hoof print til the track grows faint but never a hint. And I stoop where nobody sees me in repose thankful a handkerchief wipes more than noses, So back in a sweaty shirt to the tree line, and there are the horses fresh hoof tracks on the truck where donkey and goat flirt. bowls of grain and sweet feed to make amend, a handful of wafers to lighten the offering And I brush off what the fly spray left me of dead on the back of my old friend And I comb out his handsome mane, and pull out his short gold tail and throw up the heavy brown saddle and think again of my good fortune the pretty leather saddle This time though he stop and consider his options, press on through the scary wind break where turkeys are known to run in conniptions giving the evil eye to the pile of hay netting the field gate that groans in the wind. landlord's engine spinning quietly the lights burning where nobody looks Just a word or two, and we are galloping back, easier to urge when returning to the friendly herd, And off to the west where the house that's for sale is and past the dead mans duck pond, home is where the lunch is, and another perfect holiday.
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 11:27 AM UTC
A Day.
I stopped off at the bank to say 'how are you' to the folks who try their hand at the day care of my dollars and the quarters of my pay I pushed back on a tall gray day, the clouds swirl by in the lead gray sky and I fly over the dry sand ox bow that runs and twists in a necklace below next, by a purring Toyota, its light glowing blank at a barn wall looking glass Unclip and the gate still open in hind sight, and I am through onto the grass no paint, no sorrel no grizzled grey hinnie, I walk through the trees tracking the sandy scuff out and up and across the overlook bluff. I hoot n call but never a whinny There's a house there with a good wire fence The trail turns east over the rough brush heath and on and on and across to a fence, worn neatly down to a barbed wire wreath and across more brush with a fresh hoof print til the track grows faint but never a hint. And I stoop where nobody sees me in repose thankful a handkerchief wipes more than noses, So back in a sweaty shirt to the tree line, and there are the horses fresh hoof tracks on the truck where donkey and goat flirt. bowls of grain and sweet feed to make amend, a handful of wafers to lighten the offering And I brush off what the fly spray left me of dead on the back of my old friend And I comb out his handsome mane, and pull out his short gold tail and throw up the heavy brown saddle and think again of my good fortune the pretty leather saddle This time though he stop and consider his options, press on through the scary wind break where turkeys are known to run in conniptions giving the evil eye to the pile of hay netting the field gate that groans in the wind. landlord's engine spinning quietly the lights burning where nobody looks Just a word or two, and we are galloping back, easier to urge when returning to the friendly herd, And off to the west where the house that's for sale is and past the dead mans duck pond, home is where the lunch is, and another perfect holiday.
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The bearded man in the forager’s cap rode in on little sorrel that night. Lee had called a council of war to game plan for the coming fight. The Northern aggressors were on the move but they might be vulnerable on their right. It was a bold audacious plan to divide in the face of the foe. The Calvary screen was key to the scheme to find where best to strike the blow. The battle would be called Lee’s masterpiece; Hooker’s men broke and they fled. but the battle would also be Jackson’s last; in just a few days he’d be dead.. In the dark of May second, men rode the plank road, Jackson rode at their head Did they ignore the Sentry’s challenge? Or did the sentry mishear what they said? They took Jackson arm, the saw-blade did sing, but alas it was to no avail He crossed over the river to rest neath the shade of the trees in the hero’s vale
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
The Last Council- May 1, 1863
The bridge is still bouncy The water calm and clear Horses’ hoofprints churned the grass Bright yellow star-shaped Celandine Bluebells and Wood Sorrel Shoals of fish Delighting people
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Apr 21, 2017
Apr 21, 2017 at 6:22 AM UTC
The Bouncing Bridge
always a reflection a sorrel mare with one white sock a stock color to produce whatever you would want this is where i have been eternity trapped in this..... mask? i wear no mask! i was not burned in acid, or something..... only stuck being the kind of girl you would take home to Mom after a week of fun my always open arms embracing the human flaw the Greek hero who drowned reaching for himself..... .....me...... it's not conceit anyone who has looked has seen a reflection of themselves their wants their dreams not a carbon copy only this reflection imperfectly perfectly what every man wants is it any wonder i always wanted to be a Grulla instead......... (JL)
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May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017 at 3:25 PM UTC
perfection (with a capital esssss)
Wow! Today Taushe, taught my tongue to taste Pumpkin made with soup, in the time of cooking and sipping. You know pumpkin, so if no, try and say yes. Get spinach leaves, cut the leaves cleanly Mix the oil in the *** the water is so vital This is a matter of Hausa culture, their food, environment, and taste The soup is taushe delicious, nutritious, improves health, and restores health, because of its ingredients of pumpkin, spinach, sorrel leaf, peppers, tomatoes and onions, garlic, ginger, and salt White-seed melon, seasoning The Taushe soup, makes everyone happy, while having fun Older ages drink Young people are drinking, especially school children, because it boosts sight, to read vowels and consonants, that are arranged in order of series A series of alphabets, that make poetry
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Apr 3, 2023
Apr 3, 2023 at 5:59 AM UTC
Taushe
I want a companion, too someone to consume me with his fire over stories, flutes of port someone who can read his bible without believing what he sees and likes the sound the thunder makes when it drapes over the trees I want a companion, too to share this sorrel time to think my eyes are portals & to be my paradigm.
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 11:15 AM UTC
Paradigm.
Lawrence Hall, HSG [email protected]                 An Afternoon LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER Walk              Along Beer Can Road and County Dump Extension Dewberries LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER sassafras seedlings LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER Virginia creeper LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER pine cones LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER crumbling oak leaves from last summer  LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER winds sighing in the pine tops LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER a little plum tree LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER Canada goldenrod LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER poplar LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER swamp oak LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER mourning doves LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER slanting evening sunlight LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER Chickasaw plum LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER nightshade LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER red spider lilies LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER a skink bluebonnets LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER clouds in the west LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER spiderwort LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER a long eared rabbit loping across the road LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER sorrel LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER a feather from a bluebird LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER waving field grasses LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER the neighbor’s cows browsing in peace LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER a crane flying up from a pond LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER crows fussing at me from the woods LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER…
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Apr 7, 2024
Apr 7, 2024 at 9:27 PM UTC
LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER An Afternoon LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER Walk Along Beer Can Road and County Dump Extension LITE A FINE PILSNER BEER
The bridge is still bouncy The water calm and clear Horses’ hoofprints churned the grass Bright yellow star-shaped Cellandine Bluebells and wood sorrel Shoals of fish Delighting people Maggie Sorbie
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Apr 21, 2017
Apr 21, 2017 at 6:16 AM UTC
The Bouncing Bridge
Clovers fall Down To the ground Clubs Over diamonds Four leaf crowns Have you a heart What have you found Green was all over And lucky left town All of the clovers fell Onto the deck of cards Upside down Turning over Hedron The smell of vervain And mixing sober Ginger under a ***** Dug out Clovers fall. down A circadian rhythm With the ground Such a mysterious milieu Nascent in the soils Flinging about Clubs thrown around The dealer crowds the house Clovers fell down Into a theasarus Of sound Have you a heart What have you found Green was all over And lucky left town Wood sorrel Revelations A tousle world Unbound Make yourself a bed In the clovers fallen down
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 12:25 AM UTC
Ladies Luck