Best Blackthorn Poems
Orphan
...You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go
and there she trembles a tiny tiger in a blurred world
secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs
faint mews dra......
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Categories:
blackthorn, animal, care, emotions, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Hope
...And now the weeping willow turns to green.
So brilliant red, the robin’s breast,
Just like the sun, now sinking in the West,
And down the lane more signs of spring are seen :
The spiky blacktho......
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Categories:
blackthorn, bird, nature, seasons, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
Blackthorn Winter
...Many years ago, way back in time the month of April was known as the Blackthorn Winter,
It was the time of the year when the blackthorn begins to dress in her finest blossom,
Deep in the country the ......
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Categories:
blackthorn, nature, beautiful, time, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sloe Gin
...Feb-ru-ary –
Snow-white blossom,
Winter hedgerow shining.
Now September –
Hedgerow harvest:
Sloe-black, slow, black,
Black fruit with purple bloom.
Sloe gin, slow, gin,
Let the alchemy be......
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Categories:
blackthorn, drink, fruit, september,
Form:
Free verse
The Pheasant
...The weather was just how I liked it
Looking like it would stay dry
The breeze had the sharp tinge of winter
Beneath a low overcast sky
The thick blackthorn hedgerow behind me
Bordered the tang......
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Categories:
blackthorn, natureme, old, me, old,
Form:
Last Journey, the Geat War
...Beating drums mark his last march and fifes play lowly, a breeze blows on blackthorn blossoms,
Raised high above on hardened shoulders for the mourning march, that slowly glides him along,
A hero, ......
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Categories:
blackthorn, adventure,
Form:
Blank verse
Blacktorn Winters
...Many years ago, way back in time the month of April was known as the Blackthorn Winter,
It was the time of the year when the blackthorn begins to dress in her finest blossom,
Deep in the country the ......
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Categories:
blackthorn, nature, beautiful, time, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
04-22-18 - a Haiku Anthology
...mallards... a pair
koi carp can't compete... duck feet
strang orange shapes
~
sunshine... summertime
fickle spring... climate changing
muted cuckoos
~
Jenny wren... begging
let summe......
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Categories:
blackthorn, nature,
Form:
Haiku
The Last Journey
...Beating drums mark his last march and fifes play lowly, a breeze blows on blackthorn blossoms,
Raised high above on hardened shoulders for the mourning march, that slowly glides him along,
A hero, a ......
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Categories:
blackthorn, sad, father, father, men,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Only When the Cuckoo Sings
...The bursting blossom of a pear tree twist and swirl with a lavishing beauty,
Promising plenty of fruit along each smooth branch and bough delivering all,
Rosebushes red buds burst into leaves with fr......
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Categories:
blackthorn, nature, old, tree, old,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Spring Tanka
...Spring Tanka
the scented blackthorn
bursting into sudden bloom -
new life emerges
and the slowly warming earth
nourishes temperate spring
For the Spr......
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Categories:
blackthorn, life, nature, spring,
Form:
Tanka
Tis Better To Be Abused Than To Know'T a Little
...For years and months I was a preecher.
And your paleness was nothing but a helpless virtue to my speech in whole.
And with regular meetings of sliding glanses and peers up awake,
Had the superio......
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Categories:
blackthorn, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Levels
...The Levels
The reeds, like tattered banners limply hung
From slender, ghost-like lances held on high,
Like ancient armies, waiting in the mist
To heed the call, a long lost battle cry.
A steel......
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Categories:
blackthorn, history, today,
Form:
Sonnet
Nine Things
...A wise old oak, the image of a long dead god.
Staves of mystery and fate, nine horses all unshod.
Ancient youthful rays, a gray stone palisade.
A sword that has scarce drawn blood, black......
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Categories:
blackthorn, fantasy,
Form:
List
Blight
...Blight,
Growing,
Toxic seeds
Festering deep
Within cracking souls,
Shaded beneath blackthorn,
Watered by innocent's tears,
Blooming like demonic cancer,......
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Categories:
blackthorn, dark, death, deep, gothic,
Form:
Etheree