Best Potted Poems

I potted up a plant, with love, for you;
Although I fear it could turn out a weed:
I’ll have to stick a flower on with glue...

It wasn’t something that I really do,
But when I found a bird’s discarded seed,
I potted up a plant, with love, for...

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Written: December 10, 2023
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 Soft cashmere amethyst blossoms twinkle.
lilac lace of their heavenly voice
awaken singing the spotlight
life within a swamp mallow
ideal tint spring scent
vases full hiding
vision disguise
blue on...

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Potted Bios of William the Conqueror, William Rufus  and William the Fourth

First a quick word on Robert the Devil,
whose turbulent  life turned out quite a revel.
He fathered a child on a poor tanner's daughter
then dashed to repent in Jerusalem's quarter,
but on his return, sad...

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Potted Meat Sal,
Glued a Duckpond to Old Val,and in the winter, she collected Pearly Queens,
But instead of fish and carrots, she had parrots in her slippers,
And two miles of the M40 in her jeans....

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PERFECT POTTED Goat - A Haiku

baking wintertime
why a little, kind goat feeds
at the perfect pot

3/23/19...

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When we first saw Columbus;
his sea-bowed legs were struggling ashore;
us natives looked upon that unhealthy guy,
that marinated mariner who brought
news of garlic and olive oil to the unsuspecting,
both of which we natives had no use for.

Then it was that we envisioned as if in a...

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Be in no hurry, grow as you may, bending and turning whichever way.

Water I will, and water I must, water, until you bout, had enough.

Placed in the window facing the sun, to put on a show you're having fun.

As the day settles groomed for the...

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Potted Sinks
Round around round around on and on and on
Makes me dizzy this crazy ing thing
That spans decades almost centuries

One time France is the bad guy
Another Germany is the enemy
Then Russia is the opponent
Not to forget Japan pissing many off
And England they were the top...

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I can’t get the moors
out of my skin -
me the wild bog asphodel
now planted 
in a pot in tame Ohio.

The moors grind you
into peat and gritstone,
they keep walking you around
while the open spaces sweep you dry,
even in the downpouring sky,
even under the bitter grasp
of banshee...

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She marks another birthday
by planting a flowering annual in a pot,
a forget-me-not for her forgetful mind.
Nowadays she primes herself
using visuals to clarify memories.

If at dawn, a pale moon lingers long enough
to marry a rising sun, she will dance alone,
a slow crazy dance, up in her...

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Humbling foliage, sprinkled in a bed
A quiltlike pattern, reflecting heaven’s eiderdown,
In notes, like a musician playing out the ballad
Restoring hope in pieces - in precious leaves,
Stems resolving to color the heart in reprieve
Heterogeneous knowledge in the awing power of leaves and stems,
Plants who live to...

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