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Best Mustering Poems

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Outback Shearing Shed
I'll bet this set of rusty shears have a story they could tell,
of the loneliness and broken backs in a land that's hot as hell,
where...

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Categories: mustering, farm, history, , western,
Form: Lyric



Pass the Salt, Please
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it 
be salted? It is henceforth cast out,...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mustering, nature
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Brother To a Brother
Brother brother
My brother
Mi Hermano
Man of La Mancha
Fat cat donning
A  gray flannel suit
Slim shades
Fake alligator shoes
Brother brother
Mi Hermano
Sitting behind a desk
Making decisions
For erroneous reasons
 brother...

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Categories: mustering, dedication, poets,
Form: Free verse
Two Resurrections
There will be two resurrections
The first one is holy,
will it include you?
There will be two risings
     in the valley of dry...

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Categories: mustering, religion, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Poetry Poem Poets For Kristin Reynolds and Dion Bess
Pain in the prophecy of wings through sultry sky
Orchestrating vision, love, destiny
Emancipating the tongue to tattle tales taloned with grief
Triumphing in truth to tumult another...

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Categories: mustering, art
Form: Acrostic



Prisoner
Sorrow lies within
My heart, heavy.
Weighed down as if full of stones.
My soul, restrained. 
Cuffed to the bottom of a seemingly endless well that is this...

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Categories: mustering, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bag of Spiders
A bag of Spiders

Today, a special delivery came,
Spiders in a bag, a new game.

Open with caution, it warns,
If you are careless, they will swarm.

This writer...

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Categories: mustering, anxiety, games,
Form: Rhyme
Harvest of Love
Seasonal HARVEST OF LOVE:
Dry August and an abundant harvest, 
fattened the cows, not to mention me.
September's mustering clouds
and cool winds rustled my mind in preparation.
October...

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© A. Juman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mustering, autumn, imagery, seasons, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Finally Found My Pie
Birth
                        ...

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Categories: mustering, faith, hope, life,
Form: Shape
Premium Member A Place We Call Home
A place we call Home 

By 

Kevin L Fairbrother 

The cold westerly winds rolls down the hills and across the plains 
The frost on the...

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Categories: mustering, beautiful, home, places,
Form: I do not know?
Sloth
SLOTH

Of the eastern hemisphere, regal lies a continent.
A mustering of soldiers walked a campaign for mastery.
Napoleon Army had virtually defeated all other nation states.
From Russia...

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Categories: mustering, angst, anxiety, conflict, image,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Mother 1918
A LETTER TO MOM 1918
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


At Last Dear Mother, this Nightmare Will Cease
In a Few Short Hours There Will Be Lasting Peace
A  Full...

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Categories: mustering, corruption, grief, horror, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Salty Sentinels
When lyrics and music are combined they take on a whole new life.
When chlorine and sodium assimilate they make salt.
Separately they are limited, combined they...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mustering, science,
Form: Couplet
The Maintop Balladeer
There’s a man I’d like you all to meet whose Aussie through and through,
From his felt hat to his R.M. boots, he ridgy didge, true...

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Categories: mustering, cowboy-western, people, song-me, heart,
Form: Ballad
Frivolous Chase
All eye admiration flood upon your presence
Beyond words, this mind bleeds,
Crushed by your metaphysical yet practical brilliance
Deafened by the hilarity of your quirks
Envying those that...

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Categories: mustering, angst, heart, love, lust,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs