Upmarket Gardener
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Fred entered his shrubbery
in a horticultural society gardening contest
and wising to wager on the outcome
as to which bush was the best
bet his hedge to win
and yet at the time quite ...
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Categories:
bushels, flower, fun, garden, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Honey On Asphalt
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In the crevices of a tired town,
roaches scuttle under moonlit sighs,
their dinky bodies torn by shadows
that shroud the crumbling edges of life.
A cat lounges, indifferent,
i...
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Categories:
bushels, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
A TIME FOR FALLING LEAVES
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FALL, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TIME OF THE YEAR. WHEN A BLUSHING
AUTUMN COMES TO PROVIDE US WITH APPLES HANGING OFF FLOURISHING TREES, IT IS TIME TO TAKE IN THEIR RUBIOUS COLORS. AS THEY HANG
FRO...
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Categories:
bushels, analogy, autumn,
Form: Free verse
The Searchers
...God bless the searchers
wandering through this maze
that we call yesterday and today
the pollen of living on their bee faces
they flicker into our lives
then back to shadow for awhile
their sky...
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Categories:
bushels, repetition,
Form: Free verse
Demeter
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Harvest my love in reverence
Loft these bushels to sift in air
Husk them to hearts of prayer
Sow true my coming endurance
For each Soul cocooned like mine
Must weather through the coming
Lo...
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Categories:
bushels, analogy, autumn, change, growth,
Form: Rhyme
thank you for the apple pie
...Bushels of apples are in tubs and bins all over the place
A variety of kinds, yellows, reds, none a disgrace
We cut out the bad spots and turn them into pie
Fresh applesauce smells make the harves...
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Categories:
bushels, food,
Form: Rhyme
Chessnut memory
...7 Dec 2023 5:43 pm
A distant memory upon the winter breeze
The spring scent of fertile chessnut trees
So broad and strong standing tall against the storms
Producing bushels of sweet sustanace ...
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Categories:
bushels, analogy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Apple Picking
...Apple picking with my dad is what I used to do
Although he died at 53 he taught me all I knew
He told me what the packers see and what they say to us
He told me what the public says in matters the...
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Categories:
bushels, appreciation, childhood, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Apple Picking Time
...It’s apple picking time.
Let’s to the orchard go.
Rise up, my sleepyhead.
You must not move too slow.
I will grab a ladder
and put it in the truck.
You can gather our pails
to use for what w...
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Categories:
bushels, work,
Form: Quatrain
Sweet Rendezvous
...Orchard of rosy apples, ripe and sweet,
gleaming radiance in picturesque fields.
trees weighed down in the bounty treat,
gifts wrapped in love, reckoning yields
squashy white flesh in crimson shi...
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Categories:
bushels, red,
Form: Quintain (English)
Apples In Autumn
...Bushels of apples are in tubs and bins all over the place
A variety of kinds, yellows, reds, none a disgrace
We cut out the bad spots and turn them into pie
Fresh applesauce smells make the harves...
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Categories:
bushels, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Yet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare Tread
...Yet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare Tread
BEHOLD, I wade into darkening mists,
My journey, clarification of Fate
When I balked, black ghost said, I insist
Hurry destiny cries, it is too late,
Stro...
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Categories:
bushels, courage, deep, dream, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Alidiumakalli
...A 55 gallon barrel
Full of pulverized
Oyster shells
Mixed with wood ash
And sawdust
And porklard
55 gallons of
Pulverized oyster
Shells.mixed
With basalt.
Alkalinity
Alkalinity
Mind t...
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Categories:
bushels, environment, future, ozymandias,
Form: Ballade
I Want To Discover a New Species
...I want to discover a new species please
I will follow a lead or breeze with ease
Under bushels of bees I will soon squeeze
On my sore old knees, beside the spring peas
Until weather changes to ...
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Categories:
bushels, science,
Form: Monorhyme
Falling Leaves
...Fall is the most beautiful time of the year for me, with its blushing
Apples and fruitful trees dressed in zesty rubious healthy leaves with
Luminous fruit hanging off...
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Categories:
bushels, analogy, autumn,
Form: Acrostic
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