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Shoot and affect

Posted in Animals, Nature, haiku, tagged , , , , , on Friday,July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

HAIKU
Felled with injured wing
       dove lies beneath my shade tree
              lad with b.b. gun
3/14/90 Phyllis VanVleck

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Dad’s Embarrassment

Posted in Children, Family, Humor, Memories, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged , , , , , , , , , on Thursday,July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

JACK’S REVELATION
The children stood upon the stage
Each holding words upon a page
In turn they read a line or two
On what their Daddy’s always do
Dads fought crime, and Dads fought fires
One farmed land, and one sold tires
Jack was nervous when his turn came
And couldn’t remember his own name
Poor Jack’s [...]

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Traditions of Youth

Posted in Children, Nature, Poetry, haiku, tagged , , , , on Wednesday,July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

HAIKU
Gold dandelions
       reflecting under the chin
              affirming young love
2/16/03 Phyllis VanVleck

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Evenings Orchestration

Posted in Animals, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged , , , , , on Tuesday,July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SUMMER’S SYMPHONY
Listen to the sounds of night
Such matchless orchestration
Hear those tiny creatures
Employ their syncopation
Birds sing bedtime vespers
Mosquitoes hum along
Beetles click their castanets
As night breaks into song
Crickets tune their fiddles
As bullfrogs start to drum
Cicadas add a shrill whir
And there is more to come
Dragonflies rattle crisp wings
As they dart out of reach
A watching owl gives forth
With [...]

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Another poem about special friends

Posted in Animals, Free Verse, Memories, Poetry, friends, tagged , , , , , , on Monday,July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

John Edwards
I was just the Old Man. Simply that.
It was as if I did not have a name.
“John!”I wanted to shout.
“My name is John Edwards.”
But, I remained the Old Man.
I am not sure of when I lost my identity
But it was back somewhere in [...]

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An Unlikely Pair

Posted in Animals, Free Verse, Poetry, friends, tagged , , , , , on Sunday,July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

THE OLD MAN AND CHARLEY
There they sat, the two of them
A most unlikely pair
Dozing in the afternoon sun
In an old wicker chair
The Old Man knew they laughed at him
But he didn’t seem to mind
For the peace he and Charley had
Is often hard to find
No matter that his new found friend
Was a strange sight to see
The [...]

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