Best Aldo Poems
We Bid Farewell
We bid you farewell,Oh Dear!
Farewell Sweet Memory
Through faith We face reality.
Our God Himself descended
To his word We adhere
He held you a bit closer
and wiped away each tear.
He raised you to his land
with a loving hand,
We'll miss you Dear Uncle
We'll miss you Dear friend.
Until We...
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Categories:
aldo, blue,
Form:
Free verse
Overlooked BeautyI hear him rambling on about the way he makes a mess
the way he eats his tomatoes then leaves with no confess
the flowers have been bent in his garden's sanctuary
he's a little creature wild yes he's very quite contrary
He's always climbing...
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Categories:
aldo, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Happy Birthday My LoveDear Aldo, when I met you it was on your birthday. One single
Elective rose sat on your jacket, you took it off and gave it to me
Aldo, even your name rolls off my tongue. Even after 43 years I ...
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Categories:
aldo, appreciation, love,
Form:
Acrostic
Halloween NightCome we're gonna have a party wear a costume bring your cat
The cauldrons ready so don't tardy bring your Hocus Pocus hat
Grab some munchies at the door moaning sounds all that gore
It is Aldo playing Rambo, with scary spiders, hiders...
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Categories:
aldo, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Aldo's Note To Future RegenerationsAldo Leopold recommended
to would be ecotherapists
that we deeply learn
to "think like a mountain"
At life summit and death ebbing
silent scales of health
becoming
and polyculturing wealth
being burned
and drowned
and starved
and dried out
For a monotheistic capital harvest Season
of winterish waiting
To see this anxious
and anticipating balance
of natural patrilinear
and spiritual matriotic
re-spiralstory...
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Categories:
aldo, caregiving, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
the elevatorhave you ever grappled with despair
not in imagery, symbolism or portrayal.
I mean, have you ever felt the elevator drop
the watery weakness that extenuates breath
a depth of fatigue that makes lying on the floor a burden
an aching pounding in your chest,
the broken-glass dryness in your throat
the...
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Categories:
aldo, dark, daughter, depression, perspective,
Form:
Free verse