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Foxtails Poems - Poems about Foxtails


Quiet on Silhouette
...Florid banshees recoiled, neck and hankering sneer. A succinctly exuberant suggestion when selective. Came on, fell flat with laconic ornamentation. A miniature jaunt, interment; glove compa......

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Categories: foxtails, dedication, devotion, endurance, extended
Form: Imagism
Foxtails Haiku
...Weeds~ what a nightmare! the pesky, bristly mean seeds; prickly spikelets......

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Categories: foxtails, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member And
...And Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies. These are the things we live with, in the country. Some you step on, some travel in your clothes, and some stink. Foxtails. That sounds so......

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Categories: foxtails, adventure, christian, creation, garden,
Form: Free verse
Fox Hunting
...Fox Hunting She turns tail to snake through the dust, parting orderly heads of corn, breathing heat and eating dark On her way to escape—she hopes— from the fox chasing her (a......

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Categories: foxtails, angst, animal, beauty, longing,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Foxy Foxtails
...On hot field days they wave to the flowers, And matching grasshoppers climb their stems, As pink butterflies visit in the lazy hours, While their sly namesake doesn't notice them! Frequently a ......

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Categories: foxtails, beautiful, butterfly, moon, music,
Form: Rhyme



Thoughts On California's Drought
...Thoughts on California's drought The palpitations in this wash basin Do not belong to the wind or the sky, Or even the sea They are the eager feet of children Surveying and searching the ......

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Categories: foxtails, art, color, environment,
Form: ABC
One Man Went To Mow, Went To Mow a Meadow
...Walking across dry green fields grass knee high so rich so very dark, I lifted my scythe high and it swept over the meadow with sharp ease, Cutting the perennial clover as it filled the air with a sw......

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Categories: foxtails, nature, yellow,
Form: Prose Poetry
One Man Went To Mow Went To Mow a Meadow
...Walking across dry green fields grass knee high so rich so very dark, I lifted my scythe high and it swept over the meadow with sharp ease, Cutting the perennial clover as it filled the air with a sw......

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Categories: foxtails, nature, yellow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Foxtail Trails
...BY LYDIA BRESCIA JULY 2011 FOXTAIL TRAILS THE GENTLE WIND TOUCHES FOXTAILS OUTLINING THIS COUNTRY ROAD. THEY GLISTEN WITH SUNLIGHT POINTING OUT A DIRECTION YET UNTRIED. LIFE BECKONS LIKE THAT, TO......

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Categories: foxtails, funny, nature, animal, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blackberry Harvest
...Skipping with rust streaked pails through knee-high foxtails bending to brush away white powdery puffs of dandelions gazing wistf......

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Categories: foxtails, fantasy
Form: Free verse
Slips of Spring
...an icicle drip, drip, dripping away slips of spring sunlight gleams winter garb cast aside petticoats flash rays of gold glistening on the glen flicks of foxtails mewling mouths nuzzl......

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Categories: foxtails, seasons
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Do You Remember
...Somewhere in a dream, Serene and blissful from the start It comes to me again The two of us in love, and eagerly alone Breathlessly naive', and blissfully assured that we would be as one ...th......

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Categories: foxtails,
Form: Free verse
From a Father, From a Son
...Patient clasps of hands, a master’s apprentice fumbling slimy worms in swirling streams, brook trout laughing at my folly. Atop of your back, sun soothing heavy eyelids stuffed like cottonballs, ......

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Categories: foxtails, autumn, me,
Form: Free verse

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