Backyards Poems - Poems about Backyards

Nirvana

...It was another night. It's around half past midnight. Windows are shut and doors are locked around the house. As I double-checked them to ensure the house's safety, my mind kept wandering back again....

To the Dreamers

...We were witches brewing potions from twigs and berries in our backyards
Amateur astronomers wide eyed under the stars 
We were royalty having tea in makeshift tents in our living room floors
Child...

The Outdoors

...The outdoors. 
Underground is where they live. 
We walk mostly above ground. 
We see flowers and walk on the trails. 

The outdoors. 
There are snakes but they get out of our way. 
Trees fall ...

Small Towns Between

...The town fathers
are long neglected by scavenging vultures,
locked up as they are,
in the wood cabin, we call the town museum.

Inside the shack, there are old tintypes, sepia
photographs and t...

Mudminnow Trout

...Arboreal chum noodle trunk gesticulating 
Male pattern baldness syndrome squiggles 
Trigonometry Palisades uneven ripple

Framework salmon people 
Rise evangelical steeple 
Pigmentation feeble ...

Our bravest neighbour

...Sara beaumont? a k a nichola charles.'  hosts a podcast (view
It in your own backyards)or on the couch; in motel on airplane as you go'
Shes one of those neighbours stars? Of tv fame ya know..! Wel...

Cattywampus

...Cattywampus

In a world where things get messy and everything is in disarray.

One can become easily distracted and overwhelmed throughout the day.

Cattywampus is what some may describe these ...

Red Leaves

...Red.
Yellow, brown, or orange. 
Leaves live comfortably.
At cider mills, and in backyards. 
Maple leaves. 
They are spiky, and boldly shaped. 
Into a leaf pile. 
They are dead, but not haunted...

MEMORIES OF WAR

...MEMORIES OF WAR 


In prison we turmoiled 
packed up cards to fall 
whilst they sucked 
genitals like bonbons 
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing

War torn ghettos with 
swollen stoma...

The Outside Dunny

...

In the fifties
it was the suburban icon
that survived the start 
of the renovation phase
and still graced the backyards 
of most houses in the neighborhood,
the ubiquitous Australian 
outs...

How Ya'll doing Applique

...Moans of ecstacy the hymn singer
a regional delight
We heard Hymn singers in
barns, in backyards
and in the pews.
What they served up
was something
you couldn't confusse
Ironing clothes
befo...

In the quietness of dusk, when shadows stretch long over the fields of memory

...In the quietness of dusk, when shadows stretch long over the fields of memory,
Memories rise like reflected ghosts, wandering through the labyrinth of thoughts,
Taking me back to the times of child...

Raindrops

...

Ah, how invigorating to body, soul, and spirit.
Ah, how soothing, especially after a long dry spell.
All of nature pauses to inhale the awesome fragrance.
Whether a hot August night or late in...

Surreality: NEW

...Here I am, Shake & Bake in the Far Out West
     where they now smoke down and out, their
          new front yards as Lava Lady is Liquid Dating
               our backyards getting her d...

Hide and Seek King

...When I was young, I liked to play
With other kids on my block.
To backyards, front yards, everywhere,
For fun, we would all flock.

Every sport and game we played,
When one kid on a losing stre...

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