Best Garten Poems

I’m roasting a chicken
(I’m far from a cook).
I opened the oven
To take a quick look.

It’s sitting there, browning,
With veggies around it;
The recipe’s Ina’s*
(I Googled and found it).

It’s a holiday meal
So I hope it tastes good.
I followed directions
As well as I could.

We’ll eat it tonight
And with...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas in the little town of Oberflugelschweinsaxenmitcracklingewurst.
(There are some that are much longer; it isn’t the worst)

Now hier ist ze haus of ze happy family SCHMIDT
Und Herr Schmidt mit rosenconk giving ze gluwein a hit

Ze Schmidt kinder all excited - Santa...

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Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer parking lots choc-a-bloc
Long insistent hornblowing concertos announce the Yin’s arrogant...

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Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One                               ...

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Diary Notes: Lamentable laissez-faire

                     …the lêche cul is
back
         every cell of her a seething surging cesspool of...

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The White Lilac Tree 

In the garden, bloomed so beautiful this year; 
Awakened memories 
 of my homeland and of youth. 
Inside of me.some tears. 
Trees stand guard. 
Proudly dressed with leaves of green, 
to honor You 
creator of heaven, earth and all mankind 
I...

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She stands at the barbed-wire fence
 Her chest heaves up and down
  Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark
   They are ferocious

The gate in the middle creaks open
 admitting her
  It slams shut behind her
   ~ She jumps 

The...

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I Walk into Bobby Department Store
And I yelled where are the Jamaican and Barbadian at?
This might sound a little weird to most,
however, it’s that time of the year, 
when all the languages and the dialect merges
 follow by the real country accent of them original...

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Consider the (Dreaming) Birds

By Mark D. Stucky
Jesus told us to consider the birds of the air.
I have pondered parakeets (budgies) in a cage
routinely performing what seems impossible.
No, not flying. (They fly rather poorly.)
It’s the posture they keep as they sleep.
Usually before closing their eyes,
they puff...

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strengthen your weakness
and weaken your strength
you will be beautiful
be ambidextrous
we need to train in
kinder garten
let us weaken our strength
change our strong habits
greed insecurity fear
competition and
weaken them 

4.04 pm
sep 20 2016...

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by Max Burchett

Wars and rumors of war
it is said will be forevermore.
If that is the fate of mankind,
what are we to do?
How can we find
a time of peace, harmony too?

First could be
to find a way somehow
to stop wars raging now.
Not so easily done of course;
only...

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Wildlife 21

'Schiessy' a German pine marten,
Was creeping around in the 'garten',
His partner, called Klaus
Shouted "Don't be a louse!
Just cut out zat coughing und fartin'!"...

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Walking through the tall pines of Perlarcher forst 
Munich Germany I walk deep within the woods 
every day the barbarian alps in my view colorful 
leaves rustle beneath my feet my London fog 
trench coat blows open in the wind as I wander 
over forgotten...

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When I saw someone I don't know crossing the rode near my window,
I wouldn't have mind at all.
But I saw someone wearing the same pullover you always wore and I complimented you in,
When I stopped, I noticed my heart beating incredibly fast.
,,Do I still have...

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