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Shelling Peas
SHELLING PEAS 
 It's summertime in the country, 
 And the kids buzz around like bees; 
 But, when that silver tub is placed on the porch, 
 It's time for shelling peas. 
 From the smallest to the oldest, 
 It's something we'd all...

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Categories: shelling, culture, food,
Form: Rhyme
Shelling of Shoals
SHELLING OF SHOALS

oval souls
bleached out pearls
shelled stone hearts 
obscured cryptic
undercurrents
seaslime backslides
enticing 
Mermaids vice


whiteskull prey lays
shelved on shoals
seaweed eaten
greentail beaten
tidalpools black
sailor coldhole
burial ground



© Kim van Breda—9 December 2015...

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Categories: shelling, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Shelling the Crust
So many times I wonder
Why people fight over trivial matters
Is it because they need to be focused? or
Is it because they need to be believed?
Is this called the Egotism
Which makes everybody unhappy?
People spend all their precious time
Searching to be happy
Spend fortunes going from place to...

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Categories: shelling, people,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Shelling Uncounted
A blue moon was crabbing at night
in the sea of stars. Yuu could hear
the outcry of herons suddenly.
It was mayhem. Heads will now roll for defiant

attitude. The creepers were trapped
in the impatient blind-catchers.Unforgettable
waiting for the flamed silence was from
night till dawn. The sun will peep...

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Categories: shelling, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry