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Cuttings Poems - Poems about Cuttings

Premium Member I Learned Gardening from my Parents
...My mother had a way with green plants They wanted to please her, and so they did. She took cuttings and gave them to neighbors. Millions of cuttings. Provided the town with cuttings. We kids we......

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Categories: cuttings, garden,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Suspicious Upper
... Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict Pigs begged - please eat us Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast Mince never been seen since Rolled in cracklin......

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Categories: cuttings, absence, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member rainfall on roses, petals fall
...I grew a rose from cuttings pinched from a loved one's plot, watered at ground-level, not at the top. Dung and mulch kept well away, from stems lest their collars rot. In time, it grew buds tha......

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Categories: cuttings, forgiveness, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Demise of jim crow in Minneapolis
...Fifty years ago...the age of self-reflection Hollow crumbs, shadows of proud vestiges As minneapolis' jim crow vanished slowly, Painfully, no longer admired at country club Cocktail parties cel......

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Categories: cuttings, racism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ocelots
... "Ocelots" It was during that time they all decended into the lush fields of poetic madness, swaying indolently with the other tall green poppies, who for once in their s......

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Categories: cuttings, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Grandmother's Pot Plants
... Against the side fence, four long planks of wood ascended like steps supported on pillars of old red bricks serving as a stand for my Grandmother's collection of potted plants. Cuttings......

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Categories: cuttings, absence, grandmother, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simple Simon
..."Simon Edy, known as Old Simon, (1709-18 May 1783) was a London beggar who may have served as an inspiration for a popular nursery rhyme. He lived in a derelict "Rats' Castle" in the rookery of Dyott......

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Categories: cuttings, allusion, analogy, appreciation, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member War without weapon
...War without weapon ================= War takes place with The help of weapons, Weapons win or fighters win. God alone knows. Can a fight take place Without weapons?  Yes, fights do take p......

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Categories: cuttings, truth,
Form: Free verse
War without weapon
...War without weapon ================= War takes place with The help of weapons, Weapons win or fighters win. God alone knows. Can a fight take place Without weapons?  Yes, fights do take p......

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Categories: cuttings, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Magnolia Tree
...There are those special moments in life That become etched in one's heart Leaving a sweet precious memory Etched….. never to depart I have one so treasured memory Though so simple in its act ......

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Categories: cuttings, appreciation, blessing, simple, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member More Thoughts Whilst Walking
...Another walking notes half poem What a very nice garden indeed Fresh top soil, new plants Containers pretty and disposable Weed suppressing decorative sto......

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Categories: cuttings, flower,
Form: Free verse
Garden Shears
...I bought a pair of garden shears, The first I’ve ever used. The shrubs looked much too tall and wild So I was most enthused. I have no training, but I thought Some snipping here and there Wou......

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Categories: cuttings, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flown and Gone in Gentle Grace
... I “What in carnation is this?”, A July sun breaks my winter sleep, and ghosts in the fog my only peace. This early morning hoar chills the flesh and marrow, an......

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Categories: cuttings, memory, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Be a Poet, Oft Strong Commands Come At Night
...To Be A Poet, Oft Strong Commands Come At Night Oh, gawd- comes raging middle of the night This horrid current, rise up and now write An electric jolt, firing through me bones Of new fortress l......

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Categories: cuttings, addiction, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Addingham
...(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant) After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest, Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries within the valley the minute dwellings of gre......

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Categories: cuttings, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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