Nature Blank Verse Poems

Now all our crops are in and larders full,  
so we’re ready for wicked winter’s worst
when we face those freezing Arctic attacks.
We have in...

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Loxodonta reduced 


There are no big elephants anymore near where I live
you might have one or two on the savannah, but the new
modern elephants are...

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No more can I live on the meat
Of living things (nor on corpses).
Their milk, too, is for their newborns
And their eggs are their future kids.

I...

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It was quite clear now my ex husband his accomplice Ciro gargano arson murderer used car salesman slash video gaming licensed to rent juke boxes...

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the visit


A knock on the door to my conscience
it was my brother, I hadn't seen for fifty years
while I have grown old, he has stayed...

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I have lived a long life of 86 years,
now I relive my past memories of hopes and dreams
when I was young and thoughts of success...

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It is still dark.
But there is a
soft glow on
the horizon.
Soon, it will be
bright enough
for all to
read the verses
penned in these
dark times.

Soon!...

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the dilemma 


a man walking home from work through the Olivera noticed 
a group of hanged men, who when alive, had argued
about the price of...

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What joy to see the end of winter days
as snowdrops rise with bells of ermine white,
the signal that winter has reached its end.
More hours of...

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Beneath a morning sky of brightest blue 
A balmy breeze with scent of ling drifts by.
You’re confident that all is safe and well.

But suddenly thick...

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An infant shoot - a tight green crook
boldly it rises to assert
with confidence its back unfurls
now upright it spreads out its arms 
thus fronds set...

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Do we not hear the knocking on our door
Or is it that our hearing is so poor?
Is it with ignorance or arrogance
That we still plunder...

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Determined to build a country house, we sought land
When we pulled up to this farm gate it was a mess
Brambles and weeds probably hid black...

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small is good

There are not many big elephants left on the savannah
Near the houses where I live elephants are a bit smaller
nature did this for...

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