Best Regrowth Poems

(An Addingham poem)

‘There!  Where every curve
injects another memory.’

Analytic beauty that
nestled in verdant valley
allows the mind to review,
where archaic dry-stone walls
enhance the ancestral ghosts,
impeccable trees,...

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When hurt descends from the tree of life and

The stepladder breaks straight onto your pain

A trampoline turned jo-jo strangles creeping ivy

Entangles in trapezes and dreams...

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I’m from liberty and justice; kindness and sadness. 
I’m from freedom and victory; presidential elections and offices.
I’m from celebration of freedom and fireworks; and a...

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Fast flowing rivers in spring
Diverting, shooting around rocks
Eroding banks along the shore line
Water moves, furious and icy cold
Rushing along at a hurried pace
Budding trees, cling...

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Will you be my tomorrow?
When the sun creeps languorously
Red and purple swirls,
golden tentacles stretching,
stretching to embrace the spreading wings of birds aflutter
as they draw towards...

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The Vernal Equinox

Welcome to the vernal equinox,
a time to move hour forward all our clocks.

Regrowth, rejuvenation and rebirth,
A zest for life and lust for all...

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Their numbers drawn, the backwards lottery
Almost none were aware they were playing

Assaulted by the poisons that save them 
Hairless children with steroid-swollen cheeks
Feared stigmata of...

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Celebration 





Spring Equinox arrives 
The time for rebirth, rejuvenation
resurrection and regrowth,
Festivals of Holi and Easter,
Vivid hues of green 
and vibrant colours of flowers,
Crops will sprout,
Buds...

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It is gone forever now, a swirling mote of dust, 
  above the hills and fields, memorial fleck of dying love, 
vanishing from tear...

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I moved onto the farm when I was eleven, 
To the farm eroded of trees.
I’d stand on the hill in the middle of summer, 
Unshaded...

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The trees in the cold winter
Bared, but stood  tall and upright
Alone, while whistled in no height
Waited for regrowth day  and night 

By their...

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The spring morning casts a thousand bits of sunlight.
They shine like diamonds as the caress the morning dew.
Tiny bright rainbows
Colorful prisms I see
They are all...

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earth

I connect the earth to the painting,
Footprints in the mud,
Marble dust scratched,

The soil is drawn up, vertically
It can not be accessed any longer,
And blocks the...

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The magic disappeared.  The lead Troll's hand fell through the air where the magic was released and he lost his balance almost falling to...

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Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with  open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green...

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