Best Limestone Poems

A russet landscape surrenders to rain,
while walking slowly
it feels quite chilly;
the sudden surprise of a whistling train
seems delightful to hear
and offers some cheer...  
our journey ends at the doorsteps of our home,
where we sit watching the gleaming stars above. 

A house of limestone.

October is...

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The stones could be prehistoric fertility figures,
they persist, they redefine the seen.
Water-pliant, submissive,
they are turned on the wind’s millwheels.

Some remind me of farm girls
broad buttocks, love handles,
rolling hips.  Not like the bony walkers
that climb up here.

I sit leaning against an ample mound -
feel the...

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limestone hearted eaten away 
by God's eternal, feral rain 

stalagmite preachers in full royal bloom
igniting fanged candles to temper gloom

memories choked with thorny throated weeds
half-hearted souls, blue marbled eulogies...
  
truly, time chisels flesh into stone
fluted memories are forged from bone

snake congregation bearing footfall refrain
limestone...

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Rip-rap for the sides of highways
Surge is for the smaller byways
Twos and threes, a nice good base
Twenty-fours, a French drain, place
Fifty-sevens to dress a road,
Sixty-sevens, for better flow.
Crusher run is best on top
And that is where my knowledge stops…
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i used to hike the entire trail
without seeing another soul..
but a political bug changed that
people are swarming here now
I counted fourteen cars before 8:00am today
i hardly see any wildlife anymore
the critters have retreated to the green center
far away from the unleashed people,,, and dogs

the pervs...

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confussion and frustration
made the task a chore
it favored longety which
at first evaluation
of the work had been ignored
in referance to the group
we were straong and committed
but in labor
we were divided
and uncommitted.
I felt cheap and used
like a man who wished
more attention from his
lover.
I must sort the collected
bunch
to...

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