HAIKU
Leaves torched with colors
of flaming scarlet and gold
wear frosty white wraps
3/14/90 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Posts Tagged ‘leaves’
Leaves
Posted in Nature, haiku, tagged flaming, frost, gold, leaves, scarlet on Saturday,November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged cold, cough, harvest, leaves, wheeze on Tuesday,November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WINTER CURSE
When harvest days are over
And leaves have left the trees
November blows her cold breath
And we all cough and wheeze
11/02 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Haiku for Fall
Posted in Nature, Poetry, haiku, tagged Brittle, cold, dance, death, leaves on Wednesday,October 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
HAIKU
Brittle umber leaves
pirouette to the cold ground
in their dance of death
3/14/90 Phyllis VanVleck
After the rain
Posted in Animals, Nature, Poetry, haiku, tagged bird, leaves, moisture, raindrops, summer on Wednesday,June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HAIKU
Warm gentle raindrops
cupped leaves filling with moisture
bird’s summer chalice
9/7/03 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Perfidy of that Blue Purveyor
Posted in Humor, Memories, Poetry, tagged beer, cabin, egg, fish eyes, glob, leaves, meadow, nectar, sunlight, wine on Wednesday,June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Perfidy Of That Blue Purveyor
Of Gastronomic Pleasure
That patch of sunlight down in the meadow
beckoned relentlessly
whenever the cabin door opened.
Rows of sticks once stark in their nudity,
are regal in their support of green leaves
and curling tendrils, that spiral around
lush clusters of succulent blue Concord globs.
The sweetest summer nectar, [...]
Nature as it ought to be
Posted in Animals, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, ecology, tagged birds, chipmunks, flowers, fragrance, hummingbirds, leaves, rabbits, seeds, squirrels on Monday,February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SENSING BEAUTY
As morning shows her golden face
After late evening showers
I watch the busy hummingbirds
Dining on my flowers
Squirrels are eating sunflower seeds
I scattered on the lawn
But take time out to play a bit
Then, up a tree and gone
Two lively sibling rabbits
Enjoy a game of chase
The squirrels are back, and two join in
Challenging a race
Chipmunks share [...]
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