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  July 2023     3 months ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

Eavesdropping

Somewhere North of the Tar River
In North Carolina, where
Sunlight splatters like tiny stars on the highway,
I pulled in for gas and a buffet breakfast.
At the table seated away from me,
Were four farmers wearing Jeans with suspenders,
...

– by Jimmy Scanlon

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Migrations

The dark rises early
In the dying breath of October.
The garden is now quietly
Resting its season of labor.
It will vanish and reappear,
Giving birth from the miracle of seed and water,
hoe and spade,
As it has always done.

The Purple...

– by Jimmys Scanlon

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Hay Field

The hay field reclines away from me,
It is my neighbor,
Where I stop to listen each day
To the languages of
Bird and wind,
The scolding voices of crows
the silence of hay
And the last words of dying roses.
I know no other blessings than...

– by Jimmys Scanlon

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Mill River Walk

The sunlight rides on the back of water,
Playfully weaving and feathering itself
Around the next bend.
Pearls of light invite you to walk,
And listen to the forest singing.

It will idle at the next bend
At a loss for words,
Becoming a...

– by Jim Scanlon

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Gossip

All the ‘neighbors’ I do not know,
wave hello to me now.
From lawn chairs settled in the shade
away from the road,
Sitting quietly in the shadows of their garages
Or under the shaded maples on their lawns,
Including the farmer yesterday,...

– by Jimmy Scanlon

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