Best Hedged Poems

a small meadow brown -
                                    alongside,the gatekeeper...

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Love* fervently hedges family bond
Midst grips of trust and respect that prevail
Warming partnership in fellowship pond
Wealth enriching hearts, coldness can’t assail.

Midst grips of trust and respect that prevail
Home delights in parents’ nurturing care
Wealth enriching hearts, coldness can’t assail
As Dad and Mom nourish by their best...

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They are under the hedge, the elderly,
the silver whiskered. Threadbare possums,
frail chipmunks. The feeble,
squeezed into narrow parts of the day.

Her apartment is hedged in.
Her telephone is black, silent and Bakelite.

A groundhog comes out to gaze at the sunset,
some myopic sniffing, then shuffles back
with that stout...

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They are under the hedge, the elderly,
the silver whiskered. Threadbare possums,
frail chipmunks. The feeble,
squeezed into narrow parts of the day.

Her apartment is hedged in.
Her telephone is a blank land line.
The television is deaf.

A groundhog comes out to gaze at the sunset,
some myopic sniffing, then shuffles...

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In all ten
For my life of pen:
For the prize-fighter's fists
From the eyes summoning mists.

To our own eyes move straight,
When we can no longer wait
To rid them of slumber
And add to the outside world’s number.

Often gesturing our wish
To throw together some dish
And eating it off zoom,
The...

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