broken line of geese
high in the gray autumn sky,
fly on despite loss
-- Rod Drake (Votes: 9)  |
hungry sparrows flit
on the empty bird feeder,
light snow on the ground
-- Rod Drake (Votes: 12) |
clouds sit still above
mountains stir a placid sea
nature's beauty glows
-- gianne (Votes: 9) |
to him beautiful
lived, loved, cared, raised family
she forgets his name
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
pheasant regal on drifts
strutting he oversees all
sometimes he breaks through
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
small tree by big house
days weeks months seasons and years
small house by big tree
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
snows force elk downhill
farmer drives elk to mountain
no place left to starve
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
neighbor shot my dog
claimed he killed all his chickens
today they came back
-- tieton (Votes: 8) |
leaf rides sutumn stream
trout regrets its slow passing
hungry wait til spring
-- tieton (Votes: 9) |
sunrise gray to white
midday black limbs shadow snow
sundown blue returns
-- Tieton (Votes: 8) |
Unfathomable:
Our empty day of language,
And thoughts for the night.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 12) |
Dissatisfaction:
The yawning stretch of worktime,
In afternoon space.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 8) |
Frozen blowing white,
And all our plunging lifetimes
Twitch in winter cold.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 9) |
The summer shade shifts,
In a momentary time
Of June and quiet.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 7) |
Dream fragment in sun:
The light-embedded day blue,
Rolling off the night.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 8) |
The days and hours fall,
In drops of watery time:
Morning finitude.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 6) |
Identity shouts
Through a forest fog of language:
Murky mess of thought.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 7) |
Tinkling key stroke blues,
Washed out in fleets of summer:
The gray Sunday float.
-- William B. Deutscher (Votes: 6) |
