Best Hardwood Poems

Down where the wisteria blossoms 
Tall pines release their pollen
Oak tassels paint the woods spring-green
And winter is most forgotten

Cars and trucks go in a flurrie
Scurrie about all day
Government work keeps funds flowing
A few don't have time for play

Where hardwood meets pine a contrast
Dark emeral green...

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Somewhere on the hardwood 
Play grounders said you were good 
Talent agent brought you indoors 
They were really fir sure 
In between the flashing lights 
Gleaming and bright 
Loud noises 
Drowning out sociable voices 
You were able to score 
More and More 
Traveling to different...

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Linear form hewn from tree	
cold to touch
of bare feet

© Feb 22 2010      Charles Henderson...

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She stood drifting around back and forth
on her shoeless naked feet
on the scorching sand dunes
reminiscing on the horizon
of all the summers she and he 
spent together watching sunsets
taking selfies and free diving in the waves
but today she is left all alone
navigating the ocean of hardwood
without...

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Putting Out My Brown Hardwood Mulch

Grass was old and would wither;
Four yards of mulch  did deliver;
Pure delight;
To see invite;
Now enjoyment  a great giver.

Jim Horn...

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The squeak of shoes, a rhythm on the floor,
The orange sphere, a target to explore.
A clash of wills beneath the stadium's glare,
Where gravity defies and spirits dare.

The dribble's pulse, a heartbeat fast and strong,
A weaving dance where wrong and right belong.
A sudden leap, a soaring,...

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President no more
while we had been waiting for
who next is in store

morning seems so still
made by God who always will
all our lives fulfil

heard cardinal call
now spring and no longer fall
from tree which is tall

God is never late
we always appreciate
knowing our each fate

more mulch may put...

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