The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy...
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Categories:
farrowing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ploughing
...The field had stood barren these last few years
waiting for the farmer who scratched his head
visualising crops with which he could plant
corn tall yellow gently rustling in the breeze
he mulle...
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Categories:
farrowing, farm,
Form: Free verse
Bitter Rattles Are Brazen Battles
...I should like to take Bitter Rattles
As in their own right Brazen battles …
Intensely, The Speaker is flowing,
Whether or not with eyes glowing;
Also riotously, he is thinking
And as riotously...
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Categories:
farrowing, anger, break up, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
My Mirrors
...In the mirrors
are farrowing
the convenient truths
the conniving lies ...
Mirrors steal
souls and re...
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Categories:
farrowing, allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
The Tops
...up a steep and narrow road
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless
clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap above the mir...
...
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Categories:
farrowing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Farm Life At Dawn
...As dawn starts to streak across the sky
heralding in the new born day.
Feisty rooster already perched on the wall
giving forth with all his might, he crows.
Sleepy hens, ducks and geese scat fo...
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Categories:
farrowing, animal, farm,
Form: Light Verse