Shannon's Poems (posted by her sister)

Many of these are Shannon's poems that were published in the junior college writing booklet.

Autumn

Autumn with red leaves

Limply lying on weak stems

Then lightly drifting

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Aftermath

All the storm clouds are gone

From the sky where they rested

While God tipped his hands and let

The rain pour

Miniature falls of sparkling

White lace edge dirty gray

Cement jumbled together

By age

Pure clear rainbows shoot

Forth from the falls with

Brilliance undimmed by the

Unrelenting gray

Small traces remain of the

Storm that has been, fly-by-night

Splashes, damp and rime in a

Sun-hungry land

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Butterfly

Danger, small butterfly

For life has given you beauty

Tinier than most

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Cardinal

A flash, a blur, a

Cardinal stirs the emerald

Leaves against the sky

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Cemetary: An Anthology

Identical Days

Copper-flavored trunks of

Stiff, unhappy pines stand

In lines, unending like the

Grave plots lying in

Stern, unyielding rows

With markers etched,

The same name and all

The same date.

Loving Hands

Her father lies and so lies

She below a sun-dappled

Hill, and memorials dot

The low-lying land, in a place

That sees the tranquil earth.

Indian Death Song

Valley walls hold the sacred

Trust of the Great Spirit.

The harsh wind tears a feather

from the bonnet of a long

Dead chieftain and the ancient

Trees move protesting the

Entry of outsiders into their

Burial ground.

Restless Man

Restless man, laid to rest

Atop the sand, "Killed of thirst

For savin' me", on a crude

Wooden cross that defies

The brutal wind and sand

As they endeavor to erase

Any memory of the man.

Story ID:	3822
Written by:	Shannon Marie Hyle (bio, other stories)
Story type:	Poem
Location:	El Dorado Kansas USA
Year:	1970
Person:	Shannon Hyle