Love Spring Death
...love, spring, and death
it was spring, late April, snow thawed and sun-warmed
winter cold faces, I was 18 and in love
the object of my desire was a bit older than me, (which
my mother never fai...
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Categories:
farmsteads, adventure, body, color, education,
Form: Ballad
Sleigh Dream
...Bundled in a horse-drawn sleigh
warm and snug on Thanksgiving Day
the children restless, we went on our way
as the shedding forest began to sway
and the gusts of wind set astray
the vestiges o...
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Categories:
farmsteads, autumn, holiday, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Smell of Fresh Mown Grass Last Day of August 2021
...Ah... already the summer
approaches closing time,
but yours truly can squeeze
one more rhyme
before September first,
thus the following lines after...
Brainstorming, concentrating
panning...
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Categories:
farmsteads, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Learning the City
...Took the hop-on, hop-off boat
To Skansen in the cold,
An open-air museum
Worth the visit, we were told.
We wandered 'round and stopped inside
Old farmsteads, barns and school
Where guides i...
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Categories:
farmsteads, city,
Form: Rhyme
Smell of Fresh Mown Grass
...Brainstorming, concentrating
panning... for poem
idea shattered brew
tilly by deafening seasonal
greensward cutting crew
contracted throughout summer to mow
leaves of grass
every Tuesday, wh...
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Categories:
farmsteads, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unwasted In Winter
...Oh winter oh winter
I am the blood red timber
mobile in the ancient freeze
balanced amid the brutal breeze,
upon my face your artic breath stings
yet my unfrozen faith unfurls and sings,
finger...
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Categories:
farmsteads, passion, winter,
Form: Ode
The Breezes of Middletown
...When the wind is just right,
I can close my eyes and
pretend I'm in Middletown,
pretend I can see the Blue
Ridge Mountains off in the
distance with the haze that
gives them their name.
Far...
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Categories:
farmsteads, absence, beautiful, community, dream,
Form: Verse
My Friend, Leanna
...The middle branch
Supporting and connecting.
Unrecognized deeds
Blow through the air
The door.
The warning; the marker,
Two rival clashing
Differences meet in grandeur.
A moments relief,...
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Categories:
farmsteads, friendship, people, philosophy, teen,
Form: Free verse