Tag Archives: spring poems

counting all joy 

Posted on April 12, 2022 by whimsygizmo

Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there counting crows one for sorrow, two for joy…–Counting Crows  Everything counts in large amounts. – Depeche Mode  :: ponder petals, see how they wave in praise.  calculate cloud dragonsin their drunken-sky haze.  keep a … Continue reading →

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for your consideration 

Posted on April 9, 2022 by whimsygizmo

(a nonet) :: let’s ponder the way the sunlight slantsthe rush and hush of breeze in trees a bumblebee’s mumbled songa dragon-cloud passing a cobalt bowl skysunflower hope; the proof that keeps us wild.  :: Day 9 for NaPoWriMo.

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small blooms

Posted on March 21, 2018 by whimsygizmo

thou answerest them only with spring – E.E. Cummings  .. too soon, these skies will make themselves known as pirate waters: tumultuous, stirred dark and deep. steeped in skeletal clouds and masthead thunder. we’ll wonder how we ever found the sun. … Continue reading →

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tangerine sky

Posted on March 21, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… it floats up slow, like it’s got no place to be, no sea of blue to spotlight and sizzle. it breaches mountain top, climbs upupup, apricot fingers sticky with a new day’s hope.   ..   …

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Tied, Untried & True

Posted on March 13, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… spring has sprung and she feels flung. no time to sing, laugh in flowers, raise face to sun. give her a warm-wandered shore, a place to store the sands of time. a sea. a song. spring her ……….(undone) from … Continue reading →

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