HAIKU
Sunlit apple tree
scented blanket covers ground
white petals falling
9/7/03 Phyllis VanVleck
Archive for April, 2009
A final Haiku for the month
Posted in Nature, Poetry, haiku, tagged apple, tree, white petals on Thursday,April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Time of Vernal Promise
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, ecology, tagged April, color, Crocus, Daffodils, fragrance, Iris, May, promise, rains, spring, vernal on Wednesday,April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
THE YEAR’S AWAKENING
It’s a time of vernal promise
A time we all will share
Nature’s presenting her Spring Show
To be seen just everywhere
As trees awaken from slumber
From a winter much too cold
The last tenacious leaves of fall
Release their desperate hold
In the wake of April’s cool tears
Comes May with her golden smile
The air is filled with fragrance
As trees [...]
A four act play
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged act one, autumn pageantry, awakening spring, curtain, ermine blankets, final curtain, flowers, play, rainbows, seasons on Tuesday,April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NATURE’S AWESOME PRODUCTION
Green shoots and delicate blossoms
Make “Awakening Spring” , Act One
An expectant time in seasons
For new life has just begun
Act Two is “Summer’s Balmy Days”,
With robes of emerald green
Sun kissing beautiful flowers
Rainbows completing the scene
The curtain opens on Act Three
“Autumn’s Colorful Pageantry”,
With splashes of reds and yellows
Resplendent [...]
Claiming his soul- A double limerick
Posted in Family, Limerick, My Thoughts, Poetry, tagged booze, drunk, hole, outhouse, redneck, whiskey on Monday,April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE ODIOUS DRUNK
The “redneck”was true to his role
And whiskey was claiming his soul
He staggered outside
To the outhouse he hied
And promptly fell into the hole
His rescuers chided the drunk
Concerning his odious dunk
So he muttered good news
He was giving up booze
Because after he sunk, he stunk.
9/94 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
A rainy day
Posted in Children, Free Verse, Inspirational, Memories, My Thoughts, Poetry, tagged blossom, cabin, chalice, curtain, dance, darkness, earth, evening, hail, moods, Nature, pond, rain, raindrop, sheets, sky, spirals, summer, theater, window on Sunday,April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
RAIN – SETTING MY MOODS
Coming down in sheets,
it resembles a silver lame theater curtain.
A gift of nature’s beauty.
Preceding summer hail,
it portends worse to come, as we await the yellowing of the sky.
But sometimes it dances on my window panes,
and makes its own melody on the tin roof of my cabin, [...]
He stands in my garden
Posted in My Thoughts, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged clothing, cold, cry, forlorn, scarecrow, shivers, summer, tattered, torn on Saturday,April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SAD OLD SCARECROW
Sad old scarecrow, tattered and torn
I think I heard him cry,
or did the wind just sigh?
No wonder poor thing’s so forlorn –
no duty to uphold,
he shivers in the cold,
in summer clothes he’s always worn
9/9/04 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
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