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The Blasted

April 24, 2022 by Dale Leave a Comment

weathered tree stump

Blasted past ripped from the news paper tattered by the birds with hard beaks beating into a pulp fiction stories of lovers entwined rings of a stump torn apart pages pressed tightly together by wind and wet rain blurs words worm worn pathways eaten weather weakens crumbles remnants of the Blasted.     ∞ Submitted…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2022, Poetry, Writes Tagged With: Decay, GloPoWriMo, stump, time, tree, Wood, writing

on the death of a tree

April 8, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

Falling Tree

Can you hear me? Can you hear me cry? Can you hear me as I die? I wonder if my voice travels Outside this place, this clearing, Surrounded by my brethren And sisters born from a great fire. The staff of my life has rotted away See my mangled entrails, my roots Now exposed by…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: death, GloPoWriMo, monologue, nature, Poetry, tree, voice

the Forest within this Tree

April 6, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

you are the needle within the crown you are the sharp hair in a coating hoar frost you are a beak’s beaten sawdust on the floor you are the pine’s pollen cast on a spring wind you are the robin egg held safe in a nest you are a shadow cool on sweat dripping day…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: A.S. Byatt, Forest, GloPoWriMo, Inspiration, L'Umbracle, Love, Poetry, Possession, shade, tree

My Phantom Limb

October 15, 2018 by Dale 5 Comments

Broken Tree Limb

A phantom limb I feel your pain gone and dead. I walk with a limp now four years a broken limb ripped from my trunk weathered wormed worn gone and dead. A limb warm still beating and bursting golden into a sky ready to burst with tears still rustling through my fingers. A limb that…

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Filed Under: Ben, Nature, Poetry, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: Ben, death, dog, fall, grief, life, limb, loss, remembrance, tree

Possessing Loss: Remembering Ben

October 15, 2015 by Dale 31 Comments

Golden Tree

I’d never realized that loss is such a complicated and nuanced concept. I thought you either had something or you didn’t — that something is either possessed or it is lost. I figured the only complication would be if something is misplaced. But over the last year, I’ve discovered that loss is something that can…

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Filed Under: Ben, Ben, Nature, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: anniversary, Ben, Benjamin, Conroy Pit, dog, fall, grief, Jessica, loss, Photo, remembrance, tree, Yellow

Frozen Fir

January 7, 2015 by Dale 2 Comments

The third in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm.  Check back tomorrow for the next installment.

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Filed Under: Flora, Nature, Shoots, Winter Tagged With: 2015, fir, frozen, Ice, ice storm, January, macro, needles, Ottawa, Photograph, tree, Winter

Captured Caught … Held

January 5, 2015 by Dale 4 Comments

Frozen Branches

Captured caught and held — still within your embrace Frozen seconds bound together — my tears run cold Sky chained from white to grey — yearning I cannot bend Prisms imprison the daylight — my eyes search the twinkles Nature’s ballet cast in glass — I lay prostrate on your belly Unbroken fragility wrapped crystal…

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Filed Under: Nature, Poetry, Shoots, Winter, Writes Tagged With: captured, caught, frozen, held, Ice, ice storm, Photography, Poem, tree, Winter

A Study in Yellow ~ No. 3: Sunshine

December 22, 2014 by Dale 4 Comments

Yellow Sunshine(c)

  “A Study in Yellow #3: Sunshine” Through a window Water colours splash Touch my lips Wash my eyes Autumn grass is born Rusted and gold Pulled from sunshine bright. All text and images © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Yellow.”  

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Filed Under: Flora, Nature, Poetry, Shoots, Sky, Sky, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writes Tagged With: autumn, car, fall, grass, impressionist, motion, moving picture, Photography, Poem, Poetry, sky, sunset, tree, Weekly Photo Challenge, Yellow

Frayed ~ Poetic Gallery

August 22, 2014 by Dale 9 Comments

Spun and strewn Sewn upon a palette Loose wisps wound Impermanent Frail and frayed Forget me not Forever in a moment.   © Dale Schierbeck 2014   See more of the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Frayed. © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 See more photography here ….

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Filed Under: General, Nature, Shoots, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: bark, branch, British Columbia, frail, fray, moss, Photo, Photography, Poem, Shoots, Texture, tree, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wood

Textures in Wood ~ Weekly Photo Challenge

August 9, 2014 by Dale 7 Comments

Trees — they give us life. They give our world texture. Perhaps it is the fact I that grew up with trees all around me and spent so many days of my youth playing in them, on them, with them, but, whatever the reason, there is a beauty in them that I can’t get enough…

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30 Poems in 30 Days – Global Poetry Writing Month (2022)

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    A Love Song
  • Chosen

    Chosen
  • Wormwood

    Wormwood
  • Bashert

    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
  • Aisling for the Land

    Aisling for the Land
  • Hard Boiled Boy

    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

    Sense of Time
  • We Reflect

    We Reflect
  • A Family Grown

    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

    Fly — Away
  • Curtains

    Curtains
  • A Question Heard

    A Question Heard
  • The Storm

    The Storm
  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
  • Bun in the Oven

    Bun in the Oven
  • The world don’t owe you nothing

    The world don’t owe you nothing
  • the syrphid

    the syrphid
  • Osborne

    Osborne
  • Love is not a Word

    Love is not a Word
  • Meta

    Meta
  • Super-Pop

    Super-Pop
  • footprints on the sands of time

    footprints on the sands of time
  • Spring Grows

    Spring Grows
  • Neptune’s Recline

    Neptune’s Recline
  • Red Light, Green Light, Stop

    Red Light, Green Light, Stop
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  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog

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