Best Mucking Poems

fifty years
this house stood against
the tide of generations
leaving in its wake
lizards and roaches 

still weaker
we wield hammers
and peer at each other
through glass windows

the masks went on
hauling the debris of years
to the curb 

we came here to rebuild
we said, as the stove
hung its head and the...

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Peace and contentment within
The confines of a horse’s stall
Picking and sifting until I have 
Cleaned limed and bedded it all

Horse anticipates where
I am wanting him to be
Moving and shifting to
Stay out of the way of me

A soft nuzzling nudging 
I feel pushed in my ribs
He’s...

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Was John Lennon
crossing the line,
mucking about,
burning his bridges,
or bucking the palace,
a fine sign of the times
then, in 1969,
not often seen,
when returning his MBE
to The Queen?
...

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