watching water fall
gently in golden light, that
late afternoon sun.
our eyes touch. holding. crinkling
to smiles.  we laugh, delighting.

8/31/2012

looking for poems...check tags.  poetry gets the most returns.

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 Independence Day

Mostly clouds. Chanced
showers. Highs 60s. Light wind
NW 10mph
No surprise holiday clime.
Summer will come one day soon.

 I took the opportunity of the first real summer-like day to take my kayak out on the water.  It was the first time in four years, which is a goddamn tradegy ( Read more... )

Spring Running Tanka

Running fartleks through
Mud puddles. Slog Splash Splat Glop
Two hundred steps a
minute.  Thirty seconds.  So
fast seems feet fly above muck.

I've submitted this to Trail Runner Magazine for a contest.  :)

morning moon
hidden between knotted limbs
this quiet hour
how unloosed I have become
watching this moon enter me

Marjorie Buettner

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Black cloud heralds storm
Horizon boils ferocious
Hell's fury breaks loose
Storms pass, calm embraces us
Through tears, fears~still love prevails

The sun's soft kiss on
 my winter-starved skin, caress
tastes sweetly of Spring.
Memory of  gentle hands
on soft skin, you...me...last night.,

hair riffled in warm breeze
basking pleasure apparent
cat sleeps by heat vent