Shuttered windows against the storm

Birds huddled high up in the trees

Sit by the firelight that’s warm

Shuttered windows against the storm

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For sunbathed afternoons I mourn

Comforter wrapped around my knees

Shuttered windows against the storm

Birds huddled high up in the trees

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Julie A. Dickson advocates for captive elephants, loves rescued feral cats, is a Push Cart nominee, former poetry board member and a poet. Her work appears in various journals including Misfit, Open Door,Blue Heron Review, Masticadores and Ekphrastic Review. Dickson holds a BPS in Behavioral Science.

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Pedantic patter and ceaseless chatter

plethora of propensity

Egotistic echoes seek the shadows

hides morose mediocrity

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Within shrouded silence all is shattered

Notice all is there that really matters

Quiet calm, unusually unencumbered

without all the useless blather

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meaningless messages no longer heard

I cannot hear a single word

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Julie A. Dickson advocates for captive elephants, loves rescued feral cats, is a Push Cart nominee, former poetry board member and a poet. Her work appears in various journals including Misfit, Open Door,Blue Heron Review, Masticadores and Ekphrastic Review. Dickson holds a BPS in Behavioral Science.

https://www.facebook.com/julie.dickson.94/

Cold metal, curved back

wooden bench with damp growth,

green lichen covers the seat

where couples sat holding hands,

children stood and jumped off

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Moss takes residence now

moss memories cover the bench

where derelicts, society’s detritus

once slept, in lieu of a bed

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Julie A. Dickson advocates for captive elephants, loves rescued feral cats, is a Push Cart nominee, former poetry board member and a poet. Her work appears in various journals including Misfit, Open Door,Blue Heron Review, Masticadores and Ekphrastic Review. Dickson holds a BPS in Behavioral Science.

https://www.facebook.com/julie.dickson.94/