GLORIOUS HAPPY HAIR AND THEE
...Lovely, happy hair,
Rowed, and growing in beauty;
God’s sweet locks I bear:-
Hued as is the night,
Moonlight beauty reflecting
Ebony delight:-
Locks admired so much,
Gardened rowed short o...
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Categories:
gardened, allegory, beauty, black african
Form: Haiku
Quite Simply Put
...Just what have I done with my life
A man put that question to me
I started to think and I gave him a wink
But my mind drew a blank, well, let’s see
I’ve not built a bridge ma...
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Categories:
gardened, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
To Good Health
...Jack Sprat and wife Mary, lived in a glory of lemony, chiffon days;
Like maroon birds keep on singing, until the sunset, orange phase.
They were comfy and happy, like a picnic in lavish, ...
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Categories:
gardened, color, family, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
she gardened herself happy
...Marta decided to garden herself happy
It was the thing she used to love to do
with her grandparents, Big Pappy
and her grandmother, Nora Sue.
They had spent many hours planting their seeds
Hoe...
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Categories:
gardened, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
little Petey
...when she looked up she knew he could not be her blind date
He was knock-out handsome, a joy to look at, so she looked down.
At the novel in her lap, which was boring, but it made her feel less self...
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Categories:
gardened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
eyes barely keep open
...I gardened all day
so exhaustion would set in
It worked too, but fast....
Do I have time to post my poems on a website?
I doubt that I have the capability.
My eyes are barely keeping open.
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Categories:
gardened, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Summers Ending Nocturne
...Over the pond’s lilies’ leaves,
morning dew settles glistening sleeves —
a covering to compliment the green,
a translucent, hint-of-blue ~ from a quivering
mist hanging, hushing everything, so...
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Categories:
gardened, autumn, fate, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Trixie Belden Books
...Trixie Belden was a marvelous book find for me.
She was a blonde dynamo with Encyclopedia Brown’s talent
For finding, following, and solving mysteries
delightfully female with Honey, her sidekick ...
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Categories:
gardened, books,
Form: Narrative
The Little Bridges
...Stubbs Park is decorously rampant,
its paths scamper here and there
like unruly children.
The original landscapers ran riot,
for they planted arching spans
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Categories:
gardened, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mare Does Things Her Way
...Mare will harvest her pumpkins one of these years
Cheers to you all, she says, for she is unorthodox and crazy.
Lazy is her middle name, for the pumpkins all rot.
Not that she cares, for she is un...
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Categories:
gardened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Hope I Do This Too
...My mother went door to door on a daily basis
Collecting money for Mr. Sim’s wife’s funeral flowers
or for a present for Tad and Betty’s newborn baby girl
When I am older, I hope I do this too
M...
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Categories:
gardened, mother,
Form: Free verse
A Wonderous Virtue
...I have had my heart torn to pieces
From inexplicable pain and devotion,
Sown seeds of trust and reaped distrust,
I have gardened it, in dry stormy deserts and in green plains,
And garnered nixes ...
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Categories:
gardened, love,
Form: Free verse
Twentythird Seedbearer Psalm
...Holy EarthSpirit
is our seed bearer.
Our blue celestial universe
could lack nothing
In meadows of green sweetgrass
She enlightens repose.
Into living waters of recomposure
She bears then ...
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Categories:
gardened, earth, health, integrity, prayer,
Form: Political Verse
Back In My Day
...Back in my day we had the radio on at my house in early mornings.
We gardened in the summer and ate the food all year round.
It was so much more fresh and tasty than canned or frozen.
We shared th...
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Categories:
gardened, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Roses Planted In the Sunlit
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We are bold
we are beautiful
we are strong
We wear the colours of our skins
on the palm of our spirits
from generations through generations
we regenerate
from century through century
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Categories:
gardened, age, appreciation, beautiful, bible,
Form: Free verse
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