Hearing a Hum
...It sounds more like a motor
Than what I would call a hum,
Though a motorbird’s not fitting
As the name that it’s become.
I first heard it at the flowerpot
Before I saw it there,
Dipping in t...
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Categories:
flowerpot, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Constellations, lyrics
...Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
Apologies for the opprobrious actions that have be...
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Categories:
flowerpot, life, self, time,
Form: Lyric
Flower
...You see all those flowers in the garden,
You like the rose more than the violets,
Sunflower seems to catch your eyes,
Marigolds never were your types,
Plucking up all those flowers you go home
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Categories:
flowerpot, metaphor, simple,
Form: Free verse
Night Shine
...A yellow moon is in the lily pond.
Stars gleam in the rain bucket.
The whole wide-open night,
like a black cat,
is curled around a flowerpot....
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Categories:
flowerpot, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Flobbadobbing Communication Translation Tale
...Flobodobba-dob? asked Bill of Ben
Dobba-flob? Ben asked Bill to repeat again
Ah!! Dobba-flobbing flobadom Bill confirmed with linguistic skill
Flobbing dobba-do dob do Ben wrote down with his Quil...
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Categories:
flowerpot, best friend, confusion, environment,
Form: Rhyme
If You Are In Love
...Some one a small tree given to me
wild grape tree
was placed in the upper right corner of
writing poems desk
when sing, thinking
when miss any one
when I just stand still
when leaving or enter...
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Categories:
flowerpot, love,
Form: Free verse
Smile
...A smile is a curve that sets everything straight
-Phyllis Diller
Diller looks hilarious, yet she is shrewd.
gaudy shapeless wardrobe not subdued.
long and straight from lip...
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Categories:
flowerpot, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Grandladder Clock
...My Gentlemen,
I have done all it takes.
Made fore my man, was a formless frame
Worked by a wombsman, unplaned, clear of grain
A brittle whittled acorn piece, I had his insides changed.
Had him ...
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Categories:
flowerpot, extended metaphor, father, father
Form: Rhyme
Lone Dandelion
...lone dandelion
springing up in flowerpot
looking for a home
written September 19, 2021...
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Categories:
flowerpot, autumn, flower, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
My Precious Flower
...Someday when my land is more fertile
And my gardener is ready to toil
I shall welcome you my precious flower
And nurture you in my soil
Faced with responsibility and emotion
Humbled by the r...
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Categories:
flowerpot, child, my child,
Form: Free verse
Freedom Please
...Repent and change your ways
Wait fervently till you see brighter days
Repent and change your ways
Martin Luther King Jr. just wanted us to feel liberty and we still haven’t achieved it...yet we gi...
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Categories:
flowerpot, deep, emotions, hope, passion,
Form: Free verse
Dance of the Windchimes
...A unique and unrehearsed lullaby
That wind and storms amplify
A confined and precise ballet
That illuminate in shadow-play
A sun-kissed and bright sail
That awaits a melodic gale
A mesmerizi...
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Categories:
flowerpot, childhood, dance, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Vanity of the Flowers
...Blooming colors in shade and sun;
Fragrant elegance, not to be outdone!
In field, garden and flowerpot,
The rose, the violet, and forget-me-not.
Proud and erect upon the stem,
All who pass mus...
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Categories:
flowerpot, beauty, flower, nature, nice,
Form: Personification
- Left Alone -
...Eight months ago, a white coffin was carried out
Four men in black suits ... not a shadow of a doubt
It was the priest who locked the door, nothing to think about
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Categories:
flowerpot, animal, death,
Form: Rhyme
- Haiku X 125 - Frog -
...the princess and frog
he hid in the flowerpot
her father said no
11/03/2018
Sun :) A-L Andrese...
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Categories:
flowerpot, animal, love, princess,
Form: Haiku
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