Elusive CreatureShe had caught it, that graceful lunar creature, the cozy, warm surrender, midnight’s finest feature.Elusive Creature
But it was restless tonight, or else had better plans. For off it flitted through the skies, leaving sad and empty hands.
Twice the old grandfather clock spoke, his voice low and hollow. "Sweet dreams," he called, unaware. Her resentment was hard to swallow.
Night’s sky was full of moon and stars; she gazed pleadingly at their bright faces. Every one twinkled coldly back, they would not share their graces.
Not
MaidensUpon the bank they slumbered, lulled so by the song of sleepy brook. There, warm fingers found them and with a lover’s touch, they woke.Maidens
So languid did they shrug off their greenery to bathe in brilliant birdsong. The eastern wind saw; he sighed his pleasure, and their faces, every color, bloomed along.
Sand DragonKeepers of SpringThey hid the world in swirling clouds 'till all was mystery again. And when the world was white with down, they lay upon it, still.Keepers of Spring
They winked their mischief in half-light, in Winter's frosted return. "We know the secret of Spring," they boasted. "And we alone shall keep it!"
Spring is found
Happy
Your Missouri poetry led me to your site.
I'm trying to get the word out to Missouri Deviants about a little festival I'm producing in early May.
More information at
[link]
and the Meetup site
[link]
Please send this to any Missouri/Kansas writers you may know who would be interested.
Thanks!
Mark Pearce
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It was 15 minutes of sleep. Andy Worhol was misquoted.
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"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus
=TreesClub ~virgo-club
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I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have (that you'll ever have)
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last, first kiss for all time~Anberli
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I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have (that you'll ever have)
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last, first kiss for all time~Anberli
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"The idea that counts in science must lead to fruitful work, not only to speculation that does not engender empirical test, no matter how much it stretches the mind."
~ Stephen J. Gould
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Love is stronger than death. (Robert Fulghum)
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