Winter Reise

[Johntee]

Winter Reise

A step from the car
the taint of woodsmoked air
breathes of house and home,
a fireside welcome,
just

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Targeting sackcloth and ashes?
No need,
the World's
a missile homing at full speed...

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Renaissance Man,
was last to known all.
Now the small
bubble blown
to molecular detail
defines the quantum
of exp...

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Great writing, N

Like a surfer's incantation, gathering
waves to cast me gasping,
beached, then, only then,
my cynicism's...

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The title was what I could think of at the time
of first posting and so becomes unalterable.
Subsequently the word "Gestation,"...

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Gestation


On a bounded shore

where no wave breaks

and salt bespeaks

more ancient seas

...

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Wonder
becomes banal
timed like
Old Faithful

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Hearing Aids just Jack the Tone.
Pump up the Volume
from tinnitus to tintinnabulation.
Cochlea to stereocilia,
when they're gone...

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Testosterone antagonist
an answer to
your quick quipped wish
plays badly with the
"Life's a Bitch"
desires of...

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Chiselled
from a fluid
flow the tongue abets
yet a questionable uncertainty
awaits still the eye
that must descry

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What being,
unaware of glory,
can see in the heavens
more than sky

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A lovely piece.
Your vision is almost Blakean
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity...

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he sallied forth with wit,
a Wildean skit
no doubt, as such
even in Saint-Germain-de-Pres
wallpaper can prove too much
...

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Reading 4am,
In the absence of RLW
who bids all "Welcome"
may I say please
come again

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Resigned


Miles gone and never done

from long troubled seas

a weary wind sighs

for a weary world

...

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Brid


Where is the Goddess of Spring

that this month to her altar brings

the snowdrop's pale petalled tear

...

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I always thought this came from the Julian/Gregorian calendar shift ( ‘Give us our eleven days!’ The English calendar riots of 1752.)
The eleven...

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Perceptive

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Should a year be set
upon a rock of resolve
how more sure
it will dissolve
to sand.
Adamantine
never was
the...

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I read these Rhymezone pieces in the library
and try to come up with some response
there and then, so you're right the rhymes,
such...