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Best Plow Poems

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Premium Member Conversation With My Soul
Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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Categories: plow, giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: plow, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Divining Heart I Could Have Foreseen
With Divining Heart I Could Have Foreseen

With true divining heart I could have seen
little ripples of thy deep discontent.
My heart a meadow, once lush and...

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Categories: plow, art, break up, growing
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Joyless Job
At the window, palms under my chin,
such beauty I see, out the frosted pane,
I was mesmerized, it showed in my grin,
so picture perfect, the snow...

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Categories: plow, childhood, humor, jobs, snow,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member You Never Know Till You Get To Know
One dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.

Once all...

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Categories: plow, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Thought Police
I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police

Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping...

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Categories: plow, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charlottesville
I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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Categories: plow, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sepia Recollections
As I sit upon these old porch steps, that I have always known
A weathered stoop, with gray floorboards, that shake with every wind
These creaks and...

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Categories: plow, family, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Everything Froze
Everything Froze


a giant crystal wind chime spread its tone
teeth of icicles consumed a home
misted rain encased fence posts and rail
power lines succumb to winter’s weight...

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Categories: plow, storm, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anyday and Sundays
Anyday and Sundays,
breathless with the word,
anticipation - he will show up.
  It is the shout of Jericho,
    as we walk out...

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Categories: plow, christian, sister,
Form: Free verse
When God Calls Me Home
I would like to spill,
What is harbored in my soul.
I would like to say,
Things that no one really knows.
·
I’d apologize to you,
In a measurement beyond...

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Categories: plow, forgivenessgod, sorry, god, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Storm of Words
A storm is upon us, howling outside
The snow keeps falling and blowing today
Snow sticks to the windows, as the views hide

White and more white, writing...

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Categories: plow, snow, storm, words,
Form: Terzanelle
A Banished Breath
The toxic air begins to plow
A banished breath below his brow,
A contorted face the last thing we see
Ignorance thrust by just one knee;

My brother’s pain...

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Categories: plow, abuse, betrayal, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Day On the Farm
"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya......

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Categories: plow, farm, myth,
Form: Prose
Owl's Requiem
The rising sun has set.
Night has fallen.
The plow rests,
tillage and toil finished.
The corn ear withers,
but seeds are saved.
The scrolls are opened
event recorded;
the news spread:
"The sun...

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Categories: plow, bereavement, death of a
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs