Best Backyard Poems

I saw them a few weeks ago. My wife called me, something urgent,
so I left the computer and went to see what excited her.

Three deer, 3 young deer meandering round our 1/4 acre backyard.
They look thin she said, I agreed
(not saying it was not a...

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as I poured some wine 

hummingbirds sipped from the blooms... 

happy-hour time

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8/17/18
For : Tania Kitchin's Hummingbird Haiku Contest...

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A yellow finch chirps a sweet melody
As black-capped chickadees steal the show
A blue jay circles in the air for food

Robins in the grass finding worms for food
As a red cardinal sings his loud mating melody
I watch out the window enjoying the show

Two hummingbirds at the...

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Early morn’s bright birdsong sings my blink to day activate,  
waking my faith as feel my thoughts cannot think agitate. 

Of earth’s many crisp Eden’s, my yard does participate,
for when I stepped out and into Spring, her marvelous slate
had hymn-grown it as a wholeness...

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Blue Jays and Black birds and half a dozen squirrels.
Sprinkled with Sparrow's, it's become quite a world.
Occasional Cardinal to add a little spice.
They seem to all be getting along fairly nice.

The neighbor, he feeds them plenty of food.
It seems it is working, they've become quite...

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My son is out fixing up the shed.
Winter is coming on. Needed doing he said.
He had the time and the bound-to’s.
I’m not used to this thought process, I’m not. Not from a child.

I watch him for a while.
Opening and closing gates as needed.
The dust, sifted...

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Have you ever spent a night
outside in a tent?
chips and marshmallows
lanterns and pillows
Frolicking fun with good friends and
food mother sent

Backyard becomes a pirate's den
of thieves and foes
swords and swashbucklers
playfights and chucklers
Telling scary ghost tales of dungeons below

Night falls with thick darkness
a child's Brigadoon
loud whippoorwills hark
owls...

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Backyard Vacation
(Country, male vocal, speed/tempo in vein of Zac Brown Band's "Knee Deep" w/Jimmy Buffet)

When life’s hurdles got ya goin’
Around in circles without you knowin’
And it seems they’ll never end

I take a walk in my backyard
I like that it’s so large
There I look around and...

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When normal frustrations of life seem they’ll never end
I take a walk in my back yard and take it all in

I’m lucky, a few acres, some trees, and a pond
I embrace the view but try to look beyond

To the beautiful things that I see offering...

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Long, weather-vane tail—
Brown Towhee, a Plain Jane bird,
Homebody—home here...

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After booking for a consul-tation,
The doctor prescribed medi-cation,
But when I stood on a rake,
Then stepped back on a snake;
That’s what cured my consti-pation....

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sittin' on the back porch,
drinkin' gran'ma's brew;
lots of free time on my hands,
can't think of what to do

i wanna strip naked,
go lay out in the sun;
chiggers chompin' on my butt,
ain't my type of fun!

maybe i'll build a treehouse,
but i ain't got no wood;
it's too hot...

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Raul, When where You here?
I'm sorry I was not Home
This is my backyard

Inspired by Raul Moreno's Haiku Contest "Solace in Nature"

Author's note: Raul where did YOU take this picture? This is an exact view of my backyard 
YOU are amazing LOVE Always...Harry...

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OUR BACKYARD 

we have habitat
nor wire nor fence enclosing
open habitat

animals roam free
god ordained environment
clear blue sky to see

such the normal clime
since the snake spoke from the tree
since primeval time

man laboring hard
so slowly changed all that    but
not in our backyard...

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By now this self-analytical Left mindbody lens grows thin
imagining dualistic cultural dominance,
logically sciencing,
rationally defaulting to either-or assumptions
supposedly proving either x or y
does notnot also equal x + y = (0)-squared
fractally regenerative temporal health-balance
unfolding c(+) + c(-,-)
bilaterally bicameral delicious eco-lovely light.

Which seems to merge natural with...

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