Gifting

[Johntee]

Arboricultural,
useless and useful
the fate of all
is to fall.

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that which hidden beneath the icy layer breathes
fire to touch the sky once more-

Soaring breathless
in this brocade
you...

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"Because language has devolved"
the line,
a treatise on its decline
to the vapid,
a tocsin
gone
unheard,...

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Worth the wait?
Two days late,
the economy falling
how many dollars short.
Life cut down to behemoths snorting
steam. F150's...

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Gifting


Look upon Christmas Past

bringing present by present

the treasures of the Orient

to

...

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Also Sprach Zarathustra



Here just sun rifting cloud

shuttering dark from light,

as changeable as

...

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Each cone cannot contain ice-cream
from Mr Whippy's dream machine
so take your tarmacadam slow
as you slalom to and fro

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A leaf unturned
A love unspurned
A lfe well lived
A joy returned

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Me and Mine
Thee and Thine
Words that unwind
to The Dance of Time

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Your own personal Earwormer

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A nice "knowing" alternative and of rather than just suits better too

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I was surprised by the amount of seed
from a small tree, a sidewalk sentinel,
a paved prisoner bare eight foot
high, fruitful yet in...

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An idyll from
a time of mind
where rare delights
were still to find

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To pile on
RLW's line
keep penning
through the pain

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This past week (as above, you've told)
has found the moon full and cold
an ice-maiden subtly veiled
Selene to Plato's World

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I like this piece

I would read it as Child and Parent
or perhaps Grandparent
Syllabically the lines read 8,7,5,7,6
easier...

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Far and wide, the sycamore
casts its seed. They take a helicopter
ride to find a place that they might bide.
Bad choice! On paving there's...

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"Who was that Masked Man?"

A frozen pipe, what distress,
could leave the household in a mess.
An arctic plunge and...

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Between Wars


With the dog casting on ahead,

in the dust of a summer

road where ways

met, a

...

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Black thread.
Black sheets?
A Seventies throwback
or IKEA. Sheesh!