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#acrostic Sleeping giants start to stir, Poking flowered fingers high. Returning flocks of courting birds Invade the windy, warming skies.
I am the barren tree,. All the leaves have fallen - vacated,. I stand tall yet lonely,. I feel bare, completely naked,. Hundreds of years old I am,. The wise old lonely oak,.
calm stream bubbles down smooth stone rocks. sunshine glitters off little crashing waves. sweet grasses sway with pretty flowers. puffy white clouds float blue skies for days.
The tree is bare, cold and lonely, Shivering, waiting for something. The one dark spot on all the lawn Is this tree, soon to be gone.
The icy cold air consumes my breath. It's sensation so refreshing to taste. Amazed. I stop and take a firm step. As snow falls graciously upon my blushed face. The journey to earth is meandering.
I was walking along the shore one day I picked up a rock and thew it away It fell in the ocean and sank all the way down Then I had a thought to throw in the rest of the ground I dug and I...
Grey misty Sand to mud and yellow to green; Scents of dead leaves and lost grapes. Drying cannabis aromas surround the scenes Humans conscious habits erode sins of days past and unseen.
To have to stand in the pouring rain. To lose your foliage over and over again. To be climbed on and cut up by man and child. To give up and fall over when the wind gets too wild.
Soapy froth of the sea Peaceful you lay and be. But your waters are dark with thick mud. Bubbles made, but they're not suds. Why is it your waters are grim. They cause you to drown rather than swim.
#youngwritershousehold. #YWHH. I look into the mirror. And what do I see. A strange, new girl. Staring back at me. I don't know who she is. I've never seen her before. She reaches out her hand.
The waters of life does reflect the image of the earth's reflection; the earth cannot see its own birth, or lay witness to it's glory and all that it is, was or can be, to all life that it gives to,...