Waterville
...The land around here looks like it belongs to the side of a lake,
it slopes downward gently, suggesting a meeting with water,
front-lawns surf on grass-rippling winds.
Water is forced uphill by a ...
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Categories:
aboveground, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet
...The aboveground nest of bees
brings sweet foodstuff kept in hives
as the colony carries
painful bitter bites....
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Categories:
aboveground, animal,
Form: Dodoitsu
Saddled With Onus of Penury No More First Plea
...Good n plenti riches abound
unreachable to gentle
hermit while aboveground,
human ship of state
fore'er stranded aground
only thru death do him part will
his grievous soul get spirited airboun...
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Categories:
aboveground, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
First Faces of Conflict
...Perhaps too redundantly,
and not quite octave-eloquently enough,
we have pictured Original Yang/Yin ReGenerative/DeGenerative CoArising Intent
as LeftBrain Patriarchal EgoDominant
with a preferen...
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Categories:
aboveground, earth, environment, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Above
...I wish to return
aboveground to take a walk
with the wind and shake
off this stupored, spirit-mood;
this deranged daze by your side....
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Categories:
aboveground, love, romantic, together, true
Form: Tanka
Aboveground
...“How may I help you?” asked the quasi-mother earth counter girl at the espresso bar/quasi-coffee house, “Oh, give me a cup of house coffee; after all, I’m just a caffeine ****,” I replied,
She looke...
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Categories:
aboveground, allegory, me,
Form: Free verse
Autumn's Mantra
...A frothy mist shrouds the ground
A cool breeze drifts all around
A frosty chill doth surround
Solar rays no longer resound.
A plethora of colored foliage aboveground
A web of tangled, rotting ...
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Categories:
aboveground,
Form: I do not know?