Richard Provencher Poems

August is a blue haze of
ripened fields,
hurried over by swarming pickers
this year of plenty. The Rakers eye
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Sidewalks are community minded
their cement fingers meandering from
house to cat-on-porch home
bringing people together
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Blackness

Blackness is surrounded
by sky. Time
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When Love Surrounds

Show the atmosphere
of your heart and
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Thunder disturbed a mirage of peace; lightning painting
the sky, and his head felt severed from an explosion -

He was like an irregular lump on the hospital mattress
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The wind is a whorl of movement
frisky alongside an ancient trail
marking time on Autumn
leaves once clumped in an estate
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Today is a slide of
wind, soothing as stream's
cascading surge
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fog murmurs a parade of kisses
alongside hungry hills
like a web without spiders
upon mountain slides
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In South Africa hyenas
signal they
too are part of
this precious landscape
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Eyes peer from three storied giants
ancient stone men, Moais

look at how the tourists gawk,
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