Best Woodbine Poems

“Stroke-a-back
stroke-a-back
someone’s going to touch you
in a moment from now,
I’ll draw the snake
but I won’t end it.”   
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The robin led straight to the tenant,
Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all. 
The huge dormers were closed. I chose onlookers on the sight, 
Not...

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Sex for breakfast , lunch and dinner
That’s the F plan diet for me
I might take a break at coffee
Or during afternoon tea.
You could wear your...

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Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can...

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  "Waiting in Vain"

all my life I've been waiting to capture the illusive brass ring
to fill my heart with happiness; to lace my hands...

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I want to dream a dream
I want to make a castle 
in the air........

I want to have a hot kiss 
on your forbidden rosy lips
I...

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SURSUM CORDA 

(for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack, 
Bridgton, Maine)

“Come see us, we’ll talk about the job."

you were convalescent, generous, 
and anxious to get your...

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He came like Tommy’s Cooper
With a pocket in each hand,
Juggling with his boulders
While out humphing ‘cross the land.

It took about a day a week
No more...

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Pre Beatles Fame 
 There are times when long time ago really is long, yet seen
with a cosmic sight, a speck of dust in the...

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Mary Haggis, little clown
With beak like blighted crows
And scary hair all lit aflame
Is where the woodbine grows.








"Mary Haggis" is reprinted here from 
PETS GIVEN IN...

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It was a waxing, gibbous moon and Cassandra felt calm and at ease
as she stepped out that February night with frost upon the trees..
It was...

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timid violet
safe under green canopy
organic beauty
woodbine and bramble haven
hedgerow of many secrets







Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
Chosen form: Tanka
chosen flower Violet
Valentine Challenge
Sponsored 
by: 
Andrea Dietrich...

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On a grassy verge above the surging rill 
she stood fair haired and proud,
three leaf clover substrate at her toes.
Clutching saline bouquets I had plucked...

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(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one...

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Silken seas
pouring chromatic,
waxing floral
in scented bliss;
ecstasy of 
godly kiss
is jubilation,
they reminisce.

Woodbine entwined,
elegance refined;
eternal hearts
enraptured 
like minds.
Chrysalis ever
so divine in flight.

Dragon dreams
transcending 
light-play’s
mesmeric seas;
rapturous cacophony
tranquility played
with...

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