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North Rainforest Spring

Cherry blossom petals 

My favorite spring snow

 

Sweet smelling, fresh 

 

Floating on the breeze

Tiny ballerinas that chasse

Journeying to unite

With their kin

 

Cotton candy mounds 

On pavement 

 

Gentle breezes creating 

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cherry blossoms   spring   rainforest   seasons

A Man I Know

This poem, from many years ago, is a fantasy about the liminal stage of a rite of passage. Looking back, I can see Celtic sensibility here that I was previously unaware of.

 

A Man I Know

 

A man I know stood beside me.

Looking up at paradise birds

in flight,

he reflected their colours

with steel eyes in blinding

scintillations. Carefully,

he began to speak:

 

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Colour   Earth   heat   rainforest   scintillations

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