Go summer, come autumn
...Days too long for the sun to bite still hard,
All trees bring forth leaves that are mostly green,
Different hues are what summer fails to preen,
With grace, yet with force, summer's hands bombard....
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Categories:
farmyard, autumn, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haku about Summer 1
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, life, sun, sunshine, sunlight, melons, willows, rain, rivers, hats, shade, sad, sadness.
Such coolness
when shouldered:
the summer’s fir...
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Categories:
farmyard, horse, life, river, sad,
Form: Haiku
First Flight
...First Flight
Cedarwood frame and canvas kite,
Made at home with purpose flight.
Blustery day on pastured ground,
Early reluctance now skyward bound.
The tug is strong and pulling hand,
Resi...
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Categories:
farmyard, appreciation, deep, dream, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Back Again
...If you're travelling through Dakota,
near the Black Hills mountain range,
Send for me the pictures
of everything that might have changed.
Do the deer still run freely?
Do the rain...
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Categories:
farmyard, memory, travel,
Form: Rhyme
SAT NAM
...SAT NAM
I am rose in sunlight breathing
Buddha in middle of balm bathing
beckoning my Heart leavening lively
I am a loop in Love cathedral of pure
passion ...
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Categories:
farmyard, 12th grade, appreciation, color,
Form: Alliteration
The Tempest
...Do you feel the great turning, the maelstrom coming around, spitting sparks of searing birds that circle each other screaming in a language like pain? Blisters burning feathers, beaks and eyes till t...
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Categories:
farmyard, death, environment, mental illness,
Form: Prose Poetry
All Hail the Republic
...The concept of a royal family
Is such a ludicrous thing,
Products of privileged inbreeding
Worshipped as Queen or king.
So, when the current one dies
And, I stress, and only then
He should...
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Categories:
farmyard, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Bye Bye Birdie
...The farmer cocked his rifle and glared down upon the turkey
It wasn’t mist that made the farmyard and the turkey murky
His muddy specs and ageing eyes had made his vision blurred
And as he wiped h...
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Categories:
farmyard, christmas, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Idle Jottings
...Each morning birds chatter and wake me from sleep
In avian society talk is cheep
**
A balding sheep who writes poems in the farmyard
Has written a sonnet and signed it, ‘The Baaahd’
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The poli...
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Categories:
farmyard, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Little Timmys Supper
...Ma was in the pantry with no food to make a snack
‘Pa,’ she said, ‘go get your coat and leave this foodless shack,
You’d better take your bang bang and don’t think of coming back
Unless you’ve got...
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Categories:
farmyard, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Tuppin' Time - a Farmyard Parody
...( To be sang to the tune of, " Steppin' Time "
From the musical Mary Poppins... )
( Rams )
Here's the farmer, tuppin' time!
Here's the farmer, tuppin' time!
How many girls will we meet...
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Categories:
farmyard, farm, funny,
Form: Lyric
Alphabet On Display
...Abominable Aborigine
Boycotted Baltimore’s Bakery
Canady Canola’s Cannery
Decoded deceitful debauchery
Endless energetic energy
Forwarded farmyard frolicking for a fee
Geographically greeting...
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Categories:
farmyard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
My Chandelier
...I have a funky chandelier;
It has a country theme.
From next to farmyard animals,
The light’s supposed to beam.
Four candelabra bulbs it has,
Each 40 watts, but though
The cow’s and sheep’s a...
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Categories:
farmyard, light,
Form: Rhyme
Fearing Fratricide
...Freddy filched Frankie’s fav’rit fudge,
fearless Frankie flattened Freddy to the floor.
Father Fletcher fearing fratricide
fastened Frankie’s feet
firmly to the farmyard fence while friends
fixe...
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Categories:
farmyard, 11th grade, brother, fun,
Form: Alliteration
First Meeting
...I never believed I would find such joy,
Beauty entered the lift, Cupid work hard,
Me poor but smart, duties of a bellboy,
Wrote a Valentine: Meet me, I'm Bernard!
Maybe we could saunter to some...
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Categories:
farmyard, first love,
Form: Dizain
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