A Handful of Words by C.E. Vance (best ereader under 100 .txt) 📕

fading shades of green surrender to autumn's last

Dew's frozen crystals form a thin layered frost,

beneath spread blanket, lasting tinges pay the cost

Snowflakes start steadily, adrift in willy-nilly fall,

shimmered brightness of sprinkled dust covering all

Grassy blades sway and bow to amassing weight from high,

prompting dance with gloomy images cast from the sky

Shadows merge on the ground, foretelling impending dread,

dark billowed stormy clouds loom closely overhead

Outpour approaching holds shudders from winter's breeze,

enfolding cold ensues, leaving no doubt of pending freeze

Roar of nature's bellows rages in mighty force,

frenzied tempest's deluge follows in duly course

Torrents of blinding snow surges in the blaring gales,

winter's frigid thrashing winds furiously wails

Barren trees tip to breeze along field's bordered edge,

blown swash of icy swirl covers the surrounding hedge

Viewed across veiled scapes in white - standing grasses few,

starting with a sprinkled dust comes long past winter due

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Flowers shed crumpled tears;
petals surrender to autumn time
Wispy breaths of winds too near,
creates a stir amid silent sighs.

Hope is withered against the gale;
mournful cries from broken stems.
Blooms are strewn across the dell,
beauty is gone as life slowly ends.

Winter comes and then it goes;
song of spring soon prevails,
Who remembers after the snows,
a forest caught the tears that fell.

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Warm spring followed the cold of winter nights,
and dawn arrived with the light of amber sun
Came calmness for winds that blew to mighty gales,
each valley traversed, holding chilling wails to bay

Now stifled in hollows, speaking whispers to pines,
calmed breath of air caresses the timber boughs
To river’s shores swell wakes of splashing waves,
waters surge from beneath winter’s last icy caps

Streams overflow shallows into wakening fields,
new life begins, absent in assisted till or harvest
Seedlings to buds, strewn by host of year before,
gives tinge to passing season’s gray pastel scapes

Hues sprinkled to spawning from earthen canvass,
don colors from each arch that follows the rains
Blossoms and grasses painted in splendored delight,
announce a stay to shudders hidden in frigid wisps

In distance and near, voices sing for the rise,
day in beginning greeted by swoopers of flight
nestled to perch, their sights forward to sky,
with welcome in song, the morning is cheered

Sprouting shade of a tree gives beckon to clouds,
from heaven seep as your shadows gather on ground
Pour life into furrows that chase flowing streams,
long winter take bow cede birth to ensuing hours

Warm days that follow cold of winter nights,
arrives with dawning of new season’s amber sun
A calmness on winds with a warmth for the soul
through valleys it brings signs of spring in the air

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Leisurely adrift in downward decent,
underneath midday's autumn sky
Donned amber tinges casting to red,
fluttering wayfarers seemingly fly

Whisked lofty scatterings aimlessly fall,
wind's spiraled gusting spins them round
Clustered colors shedding off trees,
amassed in layers blanketing ground

Hither swoops guiding leafy flight,
briskly rustlings in shifting gales
Shuffled yield swooshes from underfoot,
crumpled crackling heard along the trails

Crispy crinkled brittle leaves go crunch,
rifled swishing sweeps ripples through all
Seasons all lead one into the nex,
winter springs to summer after each fall

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Softly the touch from delicate wings,
like brush to air with flutter from eyes.
A magical wisp, darting hither to fro,
colored with hues from rainbow's rise.

Faint kisses' breath upon the cheek,
a brush of silk in swoop gone by.
With silent dip, and quickened flit,
the fleeting sight is a lone butterfly.

Heeding the call of enticement's gist,
astride a drift - dainty frill follows.
Sailing course, steered by a breeze,
an endless search for flowering hollows.

Continuing on rifts of a ferry gale -
leads passage into a bluebell's hold.
Wafting fragrance assures - nectar is sweet,
each sip savored from every petal's fold.

Alight in the midst of blossomed dell,
awaiting swish - like quieted whispers say.
In the gusts they come, one after one -
skies begin to fill with butterflies today.

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Soft as spring petals on flowers gifted to you,
a lover's caress beneath satin covered down
Embraced in arm's comforts, kin to pillow's fold,
touches stir, with whisk upon your silken gown

Contours defined, in sheerness of garment's drape -
traces your beauty in the room's tapered light
Succumbed to allure, from tempt of arousing view,
placement of every passion's kiss prevails the night

Taste of rapture's wine seeps onto my lips,
a pleasure defined by all devotions shared
An ambiance of bliss - created by our hearts,
with sweepings from my touch - never spared

Soft as spring petals on flowers gifted to you,
comforts are found nestled to your breast
All promptings calmed by delightful bliss,
held in loving arms comes night's peaceful rest

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Amber show emerges from hearth,
summoned images cast faint light.
Resounding chime from mantled clock,
presents the hour on snowy night.
An evening dance to billowed flames,
shadows waver with flickers ebb.
Musical score in embers grate,
arises with smokes spiraled web.

Careen and bow of nightly waltz,
leisurely drift to echoed chime.
Pendulum swings with steady beat -
key winds the measured tempo's time.
Chambered chorus tranquilly roars -
splintered crackle follows on cue.
Ashes from tinder slowly sift -
kindled fire swells in draft of flue.

Tended surge yields comforting warmth -
cinders stoked stifles rooms' chill.
Season wails beyond havens' cloak -
outside rages with winters' spill.
Gusting shower spreads icy sheen -
snow heaps along blustery trail.
Frigid wind flails its chosen path -
refuge shelters against the gale.

Felled timber placed in shallow hold -
bursts into an ignited glow.
Summer shades aligning the wall,
cool when embers shimmer low.
Awakened with the bellows' breeze,
shades erupt in wisped pastel hues.
Fitted stones in tinged sooty black,
stages evenings' warm blazing views

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Highlights come sweetened -
within each whispered while
Words lovingly spoken,
each lingering with a smile

Likened to steady raindrops,
soft rhythm of our hearts
Subdued by the moments,
the tenderness imparts

Heaven filled with starlight,
their sparkle in your eyes
Transfixed by the longing gaze,
the moon is seen in rise

To love you