Janice Windle Poems

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61.
(summer Poems) Some Haiku And Tankas - Bees And Lavender

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Blue rockets flare up
honey bees dive to the rescue
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62.
Valentine's Card

Why do lovers sigh
Under the curved moon's eye?
Perhaps a pink heart's best
Kept in a lover's chest?
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63.
(growing Pains) Red Shoes Blues

This is a song which should be chanted! (Based on a childhood memory)
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Red shoes,
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64.
(summer Poems) Some Haiku And Tankas) Scenes In The Garden

ISIS

Isis spreads winged arms
flowers gaze at ancient face
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65.
(amsterdam) Upstairs And Downstairs At The Hermitage Museum

The carousel glitters with beads, brocades,
velvet uniforms and brass buttons
swinging round the ballroom to the Viennese waltz.
The headless dead are raised
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66.

You are confident
in your babywalker
gliding like a ballroom dancer
among the toddling two-year-olds.
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67.
(growing Pains) Caesarian Section

Bells shrilling,
mind screaming,
no, no, take me...
you lying trapped,
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68.
(growing Pains) 11.Through The Looking Glass

Dinner is served
without relish.
The silence is suffocating,
worse than the double edged conversation
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69.
(italian Collection) .... The Enchanter's Tower

(This poem is about the Torre di Mare in Praiano, Italy, which is a thousand-year-old round tower on a rock jutting out into the sea. It has extraordinary presence, as does Paolo's ceramic work)

See the Enchanter’s Tower,
rising from the stony stronghold of his mythic rock
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70.
(italian Collection) .... Praiano

Under the mountains’ battlements, the pinnacles,
The weathered crags worn to bishops’ mitres by the scouring winds,
Past walls red-garlanded or emerald,
Studded with sapphire points of Morning Glory,
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