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Ivy

...english ivy
decorates front yard....
rattlesnake     ...

Categories: english ivy, imagery,
Form: Haiku

The One That Gets Away

...Pushing me away harder than a revolving door
It has been 2 years but we still thirst for more
You make me feel desperate and that's just not me
I'd give anything to mean it when I say I'll leave i...

Categories: english ivy, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday

...November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no m...

Categories: english ivy, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Last Poem

...The silence is broken
With the crunching of rocks
Beneath my feet while I
Carry a glass of tea,
Pen, and leather journal
To the picnic table
Under the gazebo;
Providing shade from the
Bright ...

Categories: english ivy, garden, love, memory, write,
Form: Free verse

A Haibun Memory

...Remember that scrawny little tree in the front yard.  A tiny shade for the children to play on summer days. Its protection of wide limbs adorned with green still remain firmly planted. Fi...

Categories: english ivy, life,
Form: Haibun

Reaching Out

...Through thickening haze,
I hear your voice call my name, 
encouraging me, words beating 
with my heart, guiding me home
as I stumble and crawl… 
lost in a winding maze,
blinded by a...

Categories: english ivy, freedom, hope, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse

The Color Green

...Grasshoppers and katydids
Cactus, growing in the sand
Palm trees near the ocean
May-apples in the woodland

Parrots squawking in the jungle
Moss creeping over rotten logs
Luscious ferns fillin...

Categories: english ivy, beauty, color, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Two Halves of a Whole

...The sun woke me today
for it’s a non-Denominational orb
a once upon a time God
The sun rose, as it is wont to…
at once playful and somber 
taking in all of the Earth’s delights,
tickling the lids of ...

Categories: english ivy, nature, me, sun,
Form: Free verse

Lair

...From a moist veil of English Ivy
The renegade snapdragon lurks

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

Categories: english ivy, nature
Form: Haiku

On a Full Moon

...The wings have been torn.
She falls to the ground.
Transformation ensues.
Her agony found.

Thick English ivy 
hinders her song.
Now wounded, she's hiding
Like she's done all along.

The en...

Categories: english ivy, angst, hope, introspection, life,
Form: Lyric

Mother's Boy

...Scale the back fence, weary child
and run along
   to your hidden place

Scabs upon skinny elbows
and school clothes ruined
   deep green with grass stains

Comb through your hair, mother's b...

Categories: english ivy, happiness, life, mother, boy,
Form: I do not know?

As Lightning Strikes the Joshua Tree

...When lightning strikes the Joshua tree
The air is frightfully clear.
The children quiet their 
Jacks and Jump ropes
As the suburbia settles it's ears.
An ivy beneath a sycamore tree 
Watching a...

Categories: english ivy, death, life, philosophy, seasons,
Form: Free verse