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Wormwood

April 28, 2022 by Dale Leave a Comment

concrete poem

                        ∞ Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo). Today’s prompt:  Day Twenty-Eight:  “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a concrete poem.” 30 Poems in 30 Days All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck …. more of my original…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2022, Poetry Tagged With: Concrete Poem, Decay, GloPoWriMo, Wood, worms

Lumber Dog

April 26, 2022 by Dale 1 Comment

dog carrying stick in woods

He winds through the wind broken woods a wagging wanderer, leaping, like lumberjack in a Canadian tuxedo splitting the space on all fours legs of two-by-fours, kilned hard, He searches the timber tall and fallen like a beaver doing dam work skids out a snag like a tracked Cat blowing diesel with turning haunches, hauls…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2022, Leo, Poetry Tagged With: dog, epic, GloPoWriMo, Leo, Poem, simile, Wood

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

Wood-Cuts

April 28, 2016 by Dale Leave a Comment

History circles us Wrapped in a forest of bark Our lives are but wood-cuts.” All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Abstract.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.

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Filed Under: Haiku, Objects, Poetry, Shoots, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: abstract, Forest, Gatineau, Haiku, Hike, History, macro, Poem, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wood, wood-cut

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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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)

  • A Love Song

    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
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog

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