Spring Secret Passage
...Spring rain falls akin to a gentle mist
Soaking the earth with every twist
Beneath the soil, a world unknown
Where life takes root, and seeds are sown
As drops seep through the dirt...
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Categories:
dugouts, analogy, appreciation, beauty, spring,
Form: Rhyme
They Had No Choice
...They Had No Choice
Go chase them from their dugouts,
Go chase them from their trench,
bayonet all their Look outs,
ignore their dead’s foul stench.
Tomorrow you go over,
The top...
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Categories:
dugouts, 4th grade, allah, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Bunyip Forest Revisited
...Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where gullies, washes speak ‘abused!’
Reclamation offers ...
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Categories:
dugouts, nature,
Form: Rhyme
After Anzac
...What did the Turks do at ANZAC
When the Diggers left not looking back
Did they wander through the trenches and dugouts
Wondering in the end what was it all about
Did they taste the treats left ...
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Categories:
dugouts, remembrance day, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Flanders
...Flanders
In the dawn over Flanders
Wounded horses move no more
And dead soldiers look small.
The stillness is fragile beautiful.
Soldiers in dugouts smoke
Eat from cans
Waits for another...
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Categories:
dugouts, anxiety, art, august, baptism,
Form: Blank verse
There Was No Choice
...Go chase them from their dugouts,
Go chase them from their trench,
bayonet all their Look outs,
ignore their dead’s foul stench.
Tomorrow you go over,
The top, that is my lads,
and there is v...
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Categories:
dugouts, remember, remembrance day, soldier,
Form: Vogon Poetry
An Ice Cream Van Meets a Hot Dog Cart and Eats a Pile of Cheese
...Wow well that's clever. I mean really really intelligent. Must have done all the research well. And drawn exact plans as to not make any errors. Roaring fires sit down in an ice bucket whilst wild se...
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Categories:
dugouts, baseball, beautiful, beauty, bible,
Form: I do not know?
November 15, 2016, 11:40 Pm
...i pile pillows high
on the left side of the bed
hoping that in the morning
you'll be there instead
but when i finally wake
and these pillows are deflated
i'll lay back and think
of all the ...
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Categories:
dugouts, break up,
Form: ABC
A Tale of Winter
...A Tale of Winter
Words in front of me in sight in their style and in some
weight on the type face I grin beaming with sadness
A crystal ball’s incantation gleams paranormal winter magic
and n...
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Categories:
dugouts, butterfly, father son, life,
Form: Free verse