Marriage Farm Poems

I once sported a manly beard,
a beastly beard had I.
But then on the farm, at the crack of dawn,
while my lady cheered,
she chopped it off,...

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You don’t call him Terrorist’
Who can’t dislocate a wrist:
Whose speeches do the plain harm
While he might not waste a farm.

His palms like ancestors bares,
Ancient styles...

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Rocky

Rock is not a racehorse, 
he is a tiny Billy goat. 
He thinks he is much larger
than he really is. 
One day, 
he will be...

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I’d plow four rocky acres, maybe even five,
For a taste of the honey from my Honey’s hive.
No one spices the clover like my lover does
When...

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This lucky youngster definitely got an ample helping of “love” whenever he visited his grandparents on their farm.

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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To This Garden
 by M. Griswold
07112020

To this garden I will feed and tend.
Without ceasing, without any end.
Toiling ever in love’s sweet labor.
Minding not of sacrifice’s...

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The Pipe
(irrigation)

I am a city girl, 
I have never,
until now…

Ridden a horse across the desert, 
held a tarantula for longer than…
five minutes, 
used an incubator...

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The Gardener

The lovely lady goes to church, 
I see her every week.
I know her name, 
Fairy…
Garden…
Angel…

You plant seeds, 
tiny, like mustard…
You cover them with love,
understanding,...

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Ekphrastic: Nature Morte Aux Pommes
Painting by Alfred Sisley

Red, gold apples lay
Crispy, crunchy picked that day
Mama's orchard farm

Paring with her knife
Her son brought home his new...

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Once upon an aging mosquito
of healing time,
There was an ancient heroic farmer
not unlike Hercules
if he had lived too long
redressed
and sometimes addressed
as green Goddess Gaia,

Feeling uncomfortable...

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The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served...

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Leanne was a farm girl at heart
She loved playing with her special cow
She used to eat her mums freshly made tart
Leanne didn't like her brothers...

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A thorough yield
On a farm field of far east
It took me time to realize
How far I am to my far east of coast

Call of my...

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