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We went to the zoo today.
We saw the cockroaches at play.
Elephant and rhino have gone,
Of the panda there is only one.
Empty cages in the zoo today.
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Originally Published 13 August 2017
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Susurrus,
Wind kisses upon the water.
The breeze stirs the leaves of the willow,
Moving like the fingertips of a dancer would.
Elegant branches,
Limbs of an acrobat, sway
Dipping low agitating the mirror calm
Of the tranquil pool.
Elemental water and sylvan spirit of living wood
Allowed to commune,
Within this companion silence.
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Originally Published 6 August 2016
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Blossom trembles with thoughts I cannot read.
Though I feel the bursting anticipation,
The thrill of something. Something wonderful
That the blossom senses in the silence.
Something alive and vital on the breeze.
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Summer shine glistens upon the shimmering waters.
A glimmer of hope whispered on the breeze,
A rainbow of emotions spoken by the leaves.
A melody of motion in the song of the water,
She wraps her arms around me. A dream within a dream.
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For the eighth November, we have a poem about how nature can suddenly remind you that as humans we are just so small and insignificant.
photo credit: Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel Astronaut Alan Bean holds Special Environmental Sample Container. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. via photopin(license)
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Your silence
Speaks an ocean,
Of the stars and the dust;
Reflected
Glories
Harder and harder to bear.
Your vengeance
In the crying light
In the shadow of trust.
Sharing out the darkness,
The madness
In Gaia’s despair.
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Originally Published 23 August 2017
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Flickering vision of a mirage
Merging with reality.
In the heat haze
Of a shimmering sunset
Over the Aegean Sea.
Birds cry in the moonlight
And the tears in my eyes
Are blinding me.
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Wind-blown,
Secrets fly like the night
On wings of darkness.
To a rhythm nobody feels
And even less see.
Nature lies,
As natural as breathing.
Until death comes stealing,
Creeping, out of an obsidian glass poured.
The fatal blow dealt.
Undreamed.
Poisons and pains. Panic
Flies on the wings of a bat
Chittering, repeating its refrain, sings
Of ‘Secrets and Lies’, of ‘Secrets and Lies’.
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The return of the rain
Brings me to life again.
The touch of this holy water
Upon my skin
Washes me clean
Lets me begin once more.
The passion of the raindrops
Freefalling to the ground
Is the baptism of hope I need
So that I feel born again.
It resurrects a faith
That had all but died.
I feel rain, I feel alive.
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