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  Big Dogs and Holiday Doors

  

  By wildgeese, Sussex, NJ

  Line after line, page after page. It wasn't the writing. It wasn't the hours, the yelling. It wasn't what was, but what wasn’t. Every day, same as the last. No end in sight. But even more, no beginning. --------------------------- Hope. Hope for the day when baking brownies...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Shadows O'er the Snow

  

  By wildgeese, Sussex, NJ

  Shadows o’er the snow Geese are singing to the trees Heading home again Hand and hand they soar Careful not to leave behind The littlest bird Because a family Is a family, and no one’s Insignificant And if geese arrive At their home for snowy days And one is missing Then they...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Dreams of the Midsummer Mo(u)rning

  

  By wildgeese, Sussex, NJ

  If each summer's day came and passed as before If each night the moon through this window shone I'd smell the sweet grass through the old screen door And explore the treetops I once had known The sun rose each morning, over the hills And the flowers reached out, crying for water Th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Invisible

  

  By wildgeese, Sussex, NJ

  He smiles A broad, gentle grin Round eyes, a kind, constant gaze The small children stumble Giggling, prancing, twirling Rubber boots and puffy suits Off to decorate him With hat and scarf, though Profusely perspiring As the bright sun showers him Burning him, wearing on him. This bitter ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Bane of the Elitist

  

  By wildgeese, Sussex, NJ

  It’s nails slide down the glass as if with one swoop they could slit a hole in the window Just large enough to slip through, suffocate me with my own pride. Gagging. Gasping. Unable to overcome Asphyxia of the spirit. Beasts. Monsters. They pound, louder, Louder LOUDER an avalanche ru...
• Poetry > Haiku
  The Great Beyond

  

  By wildgeese, Sussex, NJ

  Light, Beauty, Glory Lips utter their final words The end without end...