Originally posted on BLAZE: Mid Cheshire Stanza:
SNOW CLEARING All day we met the snow, on every curve Each locked white cutting, as we heaved the weight Three coupled engines, plough at either end We sliced the edge of air with loco breath Rasping as pistons kicked compacted white And stuttering drive wheels spun on…
Day: December 22, 2015
Great Grandmother
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Photo Challenge #92 Held in fragile arms Caressed by arthritic hands New branch has been born Sprung from the family tree Old and young blessed by the sun (Awarded 1st Place) Great Grandmother by SFC Lance Widner – Division 1 (Active Duty Military) CC BY 2.0 […]
The next stave of The Fir Tree
Stave 2 In autumn The fir tree Trembled to see Woodcutters Chopping, The tallest trees Toppling To the ground With a groan And a crash. Stripped naked, They were loaded Onto wagons And driven away. In spring, the swallows returned And the stork appeared, Singing songs of oceans and ships With magnificent mast trees […]
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