Best Lushly Poems

How far can you fall and get back up 
How high can you jump
And keep your feet in the sand 

To touch grace and fall from within
Next to you I was out of my skin
I missed you yesterday and you leave tomorrow

A life spent in...

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One Proud Yellow Dandelion

Lantanas and pears are lushly in bloom,
Baby chartreuse leaves brighten winter’s late gloom
And one proud yellow dandelion.

We wait for the redbuds – where are you?
There are dark spring clouds under the blue,
And one proud yellow dandelion.

Nandina berries like Christmas late,
Spring cold breezes...

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It was late in the perpetual summer, and I had been dozing,
On a blue and balmy afternoon, as I lulled on my porch swing.

When from my pleasurable dreams, I was eventually aroused,
By sweet breezes that blew past, the place where I drowsed.

With a sigh of...

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Another Sweetheart’s Day my love
And once again I am alone.
No loving message in the mail
No whispered words by way of phone.

At forty-one, God took you home
You have been gone for fifty years.
The grass grows lushly on your grave.
I place my flowers and shed my tears.

I...

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Woven perfection posh and copious
Threads of illumed infinity converging
Thrumming life in the Almighty breath
Varying designs of diligence and entreaty

Fading to an ominous melancholy gray
Selfish as his struggle becomes greater weight
Becoming vivid hope of unrelenting faith
As our Father returns our focus to the Son

This tapestry weaves...

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She drizzles on mounds of brick stones 
Her tresses pouring like silvery mist
Robed in a veil of pewter and crystals,
Fragrant breath spreading a tune
Across the glossed moorland lushly blazed;
Till she refreshes the  prism of grass 
Enchanting the eyes from sterling clouds
While barefoot kids fondle...

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He plows his harrowed fields—visions grand!
Lushly, planned, large yeilds;
Bugs frantically seeking shields
As farmers plant the hayfields.

Ó November 15, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...

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Under divinities shadow,
Rests the tree of life.
With aromatic branches,
Dissected by a pocket knife.

Medicinal veins lushly flow,
Carrying remedial cures.
A verdant daze ensues,
As romantic buds allure.

Poetic smoke…recites,
The stanzas of cannabis trees.
As healthy lungs exclaim,
The power of curative leaves.




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Inspired by a Lucky Lopez!!!...

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My grass is growing lushly.
I keep it watered and fed.
I'm so proud to pay a man
cash to mow it down.


For Francine's contest  "Flowers, Trees, Grass, Bees"Won a 3rd place...

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A winter shrouds the spring of ours –  
the ruthless snowstorm starts to whirl,
the snowy mantle lies around us
and Boreas will gloss it well.


I wanna warm days – when a brook
in gaiety will join a stream,
when trees under the sunny look 
will lushly blossom...

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O June   linger on with your youthful charm;
Fireflies and evergreen still gloam to disarm
Woods  brimming lushly , perfuming the air…

Let springtime flaunt this elegance   so rare!


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Wnen A Fourth Line Helps It To Rhyme
Contest of Silent One    ...

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Where my body may dwindle,
 As hunger saddles the atmosphere
 But sounds of Joy will always jingle;
 As Mama will lushly care
 Take me to that place

 Where shelter may not shield from cold,
 Yet I am cuddled in love untold
 Where luxury os but...

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lovely lavender
languidly, lavishly, lithe
lushly living large

Written on 2/26/2023
For: Alliterku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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As flushed as ripe plums the fuchsia does swell
Weighted with thick sap its cloak lushly blooms
Passion’s flower sweetly grieves sad farewell
As our goodbye speaks like this summer’s plume

Our waltz in the sun like sultry guitars
Fueled fiery flames to warm us through the night
Hearts lay like...

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THE GOLDEN APPLE
J. OLUSESAN ADEBANJO
09 JULY 2016

I WAS BORN, I GREW, I FLOURISHED, I SPROUTED
DESPITE THE DROUGHT, I BECAME STOUT
I BOOMED, I PROSPERED, I THRIVED, I BLOOMED
SATIN STEMMED AND OLIVE CAULINE LEAVES
STRONGER BY THE HOUR, YIELDING OUT FLOWERS
GROWING IN POWER, GROWING INTO A TOWER
I AM...

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