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Late at Night
The swirl of wind relenting; the turn of water descending;the slow winding down of the cat into sleep.
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Caravan
It seems to me from years of gracethat the best poems come out of the night.They softly, swiftly descendon wafting leaves with starlight glistening.They never guess nor ever look back.They mince no words and pour imagesthat tingle in the heart … Continue reading
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Love’s Stride
Life is sacred and holy.Life is free and lovely,free as the summer breezethat turns silver in the trees;lovely as my sweet bellebent over the brimming welland beaming surprised when I from behindreach ’round to make her mine. How sweet the … Continue reading
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Robert Frost’s Alchemy
He came from the orchard with something new —fruits of unseen forms, containingrhythms before undanced, rhymes ’til then unsaid,born forth in a long meter indulging its labors,like a man with a load going uphilland coming back down again just for … Continue reading
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Sweetness
The cat while hunting pausesand lifts his nose to tastethe nectar of morning.He softly blinks his amber eyesfrom the pleasure of the kissof dew scented air. -Kevin Trammel
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Her Arrow, My Awakening
Through a heart-shaped opening in the forest canopy, the moon descends like a silver arrow. -Kevin Trammel6/24/2021
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Looking Down, Up
Yellow dandelion dust on my sandals —a smile returns. -Kevin Trammel6/20/2021
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Breathing Easy on the Path
The cedar smilesin mists’ billowsabove the dancing falls Kevin Trammel7/2/2021
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Walking the Old Road, Sunset
A pigeon and a junco browsing windfall seedsalong the dirt road — sunset. -Kevin Trammel5/6/2021
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Feathers of Stillness
Feathers of Stillnessby Kevin Trammel Feathers of stillness falltoo soft to excite,down from the shadowed shelves of night.They drift slowly alongthe now still, smoothe sands of day,languidly leaving shallow linesof mystic calligraphysoon to dissolve in lapping tides of sleep. Lie … Continue reading
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The Fate of John the Pure of Heart, the “Bright Star”
The Fate of John the Pure of Heart, the “Bright Star”-Kevin Trammel The world cares not at all for the poet —Man’s world, that is, for Nature’s loves her, or him,with a soft lovethat is harsh only for the flowering … Continue reading
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Drinking with Li Bai
Drinking with Li Baiby Kevin Trammel I fall asleep in the chairreading Li Bai’s white-hair-poems-at-heaven’s-gate —it’s the eve of my sixtieth year.I wish I could drink wine with him, who loved wine so,beside a chattering mountain stream in autumn,casting poems … Continue reading
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Recipe for Sweet Sleep
Having trouble sleeping? Take a handful of poems, and with a glass of fresh spring water! Below are several soporifics from the apothecary of poetry. Continue reading
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For Us Travelers…
Stranger, rest your weary legs under the elm ; hark how sweetly the breeze murmurs in the green leaves ; and drink a cold draught from the fountain ; for this is indeed a resting-place dear to travelers in the … Continue reading
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Keep Always the Time Like This, Let Not Time Keep You
Ah! what a life were this! how sweet, how lovely!Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shadeTo shepherds looking on their silly sheep,Than doth a rich embroidered canopyTo kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery?Oh yes it doth; a thousand-fold it … Continue reading
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Being
Being is like a so radiant sun:we shine… or we are not.
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Good Advice from Rumi for Mental and Spiritual Health
Ghazal 119 I don’t needa companion who isnasty sad and sour the one who islike a gravedark depressing and bitter a sweetheart is a mirrora friend a delicious cakeit isn’t worth spendingan hour with anyone else a companion who isin … Continue reading
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“Between the Hours” Now Available for Purchase
Although I’ve recently begun to post again on Flowerwatch, I had stopped regularly putting up new content some time ago as I was preparing everything for publication in book form — I happen to be one who prefers to hold … Continue reading
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A Poem: The Native Land
Here’s a lovely poem that landed on my desk this morning when I opened a long-ago published book of Longfellow’s poetry. I’d opened to this page at random, and after a pleasant whiff of that wonderful bouquet of old bookstores, … Continue reading
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