You Are With Us
...No eyes could see dominions of rainbows filling the skies.
Stars flew, floated, and fluttered around in a stunned surprise.
Did anyone see the skies blossom and a child appear?
He rested between J...
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Categories:
cowshed, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
A Fire Rises
...Sri Lal
A Fire Rises
A fire rises in the pit of the gut—
and I forget myself.
At the grey langur’s door,
I give up. I cut my hair,
dance bare in the Bhadra rain.
Who am I?
I ask myself...
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Categories:
cowshed, anger, animal, fire, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Once Called Paradise
...Gravel road winds up to the gate
logs from a bygone era, sturdy
electrified now, to keep out ~
or perhaps to keep in ~
The cowshed, chicken coop
scraggly gardens and gr...
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Categories:
cowshed, dad, farm, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Free verse
To Plow and Seed
...A well-water pump cranks out its iron-water
crooked wire remains -- once, sturdy chicken coops
The brackish, muddy area over there, the cowshed
some withered trees dot the hills, bereft ...
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Categories:
cowshed, farm, history, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Oath
...Mouthing an oath, she carried on
Milking the cow in cowshed grim.
She only wished she could be gone...
Mouthing an oath, she carried on.
Into the shed sun never shone.
Now milk was spilling over...
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Categories:
cowshed, farm, work,
Form: Triolet
Lines Written In Albany
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On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky Tower
built upon the rubble of a gran...
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Categories:
cowshed, how i feel, places,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Belguique
...Rainy Belgique
I will invest in Belgium near Brussel
14% increase in two years, pine tree I think
inferior with a bad reputation.
They make good clogs in Belgium, I thought
clogs were a Dut...
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Categories:
cowshed, anti bullying, blessing, cinderella,
Form: Blank verse
Teats of Love
...From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life, I bought an unparagoned cow.
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Categories:
cowshed, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
Status Knockout
...I hope you are watching, because you are not
The type with window panes, winter sunglasses on
Your naked clean eyes, watch for my sort
From the heartless gains, on what I own
Behind that courty...
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Categories:
cowshed, poverty,
Form: Didactic
Door
...When the night
rubs out the horizon
and all this black
has more this quality of shade
and all the copsed trees
cluster around sleeping f...
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Categories:
cowshed, nature,
Form: Free verse
Maids
...Maids.
Yesterday I saw an old fashion milk maid
coming out of the cowshed she carried
a pail of milk in her left arm, the grip so
firm fingers used to squeezing cows long
teats twice a d...
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Categories:
cowshed, dedication, passion,
Form: Blank verse
Blessed Evening
...A blessed evening by sin unspoiled,
Cleansed by blood not by sin tarnished
Upon the accursed tree of Calvary,
Shed by one by his own people banished.
I'm grateful for the Blessed Nativity
At t...
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Categories:
cowshed, religionsin,
Form: Pastoral
Blessed Evening
...A blessed evening by sin unspoiled,
Cleansed by blood not by sin tarnished
Upon the accursed tree of Calvary,
Shed by one by his own people banished.
I'm grateful for the Blessed Nativity
At t...
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Categories:
cowshed, religionsin,
Form: Pastoral
Time Bomb
...The town-crier said it thirty-many years ago
About the pool of blood that swept my fathers time
Not excluding the famous town-crier of that era
People freely bought their ticket to heaven and hell...
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Categories:
cowshed, confusion, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Lyric