Best Songster Poems

high in the forest
     a little songster of songs
           such sweet phrases and pauses
  (chattering, rambling, warbling)
hops along branches
     hidden in the canopy
   ...

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Brandy and Crème soda 
Autumn summons us 
Shoulder to shoulder
We know not
If we’re getting older
We are self confident soldiers
I give you the best 
Of my brandy and Crème soda

March
Early and on we shall
Through these days of despair
Autumn prevails
Ways to soften
Whom could offer such a touch
A...

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The lane gave way to the distant view
where trees and hedges now thinly grew
Tractor engine thumping nearer,seen
over Blackberry and Hawthorn,the reason was clearer
 
One lone man his labour long
I watched unseen as he broke into song
stopping the tractor to throw on the bales
was he oblivious...

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'Twas a dreary morn at best
Veiled neath leaden clouds,
Job's patience it would test
To oust this morose shroud.

Sol bore unseeing eyes
Declining he to call,
Overhead, ashen skies
Dispersed their languid pall.

From this dismal, doleful day
There voiced a symphony,
Welcome solace came my way,
Eclipsing ennui.

Whatever reason to rejoice
He aired his...

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