Tag: nature
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Ode to Gorse Cursed Hill
Returning home I find no peace, haunted in that place Where mirthful joy from boyhood once brought smiles to my face, Now ghosts walk idle through the halls, ere arcane lore is held And by night I toss and find no peace, further into sorrow delve Fitful there I cannot rest for fidgeting upon my…
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Spiders Dreams
My father made a pleasure dome in some mad Victorian fervour He began with plants and stones until it extended further and further Beyond crude palisades of hearty piled stones Near a pansy-shored meander, where a spider makes his home. ‘Tween mossy stone and cloudy bank in a web of gossamer spun This spider sits…
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Cave Fire Respite Anxious About Sabretooths
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Creaky Springs
A bothy on the isle of Jura, cold steals the subtlety of breath Oranged by a burning million, the transfixed KLF Whether hard by here on hinterlands or strong foundations, man’s best laid plans, Winter a Yakuza in taking fingers, first frost lingers, ensure a fire warms your hands. Burn a thousand notebooks full of…
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Old Cat Counts Her Winters
Not a leaf as relief from the naked season Sapped of former lustre the fullheaded were strapping as saplings Each thing in its season, springing forth wintering down Sometimes emerging and sometimes not No more trips after the first frost The undressed world How the round of the hills crystalled with frost ruddies watching cheeks…
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Vulptuous
A fox furtive as Virgo exits its den sniffing the air Marzipan moon dented like a well used marble Voiding forecast, mystery mother cups her dew Twinless kinless night Each night is different to the last, darkling snowflake