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Premium Member In Awe of Ednas Green Thumb
gorgeous African violets pink, periwinkle, and the deepest purple yellow centers and dainty dark green veined flowers we were in awe of Edna, for none of us could grow them...

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Categories: green thumb, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Green Thumb
There was a time when only weeds survived My green thumb as I tended soil and seeds Plants so stunning, my nurturing deprived Of the sunshine’s love, the sprinkling who feeds Only mom’s gentleness and grace revived The lingering of the droughts and the weeds Bringing grace to the soil with kind showers Healing my plants so they would bring flowers Over time,...

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Categories: green thumb, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Ottava rima



Green Thumb
With green fingers the gardener worked Hence the garden thrived and perked, Ironically when blueberries collected Thumbs were stained from fruit selected. 'Motto Matters Poetry Contest' Sponsored by Natasha L Scragg...

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Categories: green thumb, garden,
Form: Rhyme
The Poet's Green Thumb
As I went for a walk in Soup's green field, many sterling poems caught my appeal. Planting of fresh new ideas I saw but the patina on some puts me in awe. In my editor's eye, what makes pieces shine is attention, the editing, line by line. Wandering this field over and over I've found outstanding four-leafed clover. Metaphor, hyperbole, rhythm and rhyme alliteration,...

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Categories: green thumb, 11th grade, allusion, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Mother's Green Thumb, 1
She has magic hands, Persephone's touch. Everything she plants, thrives vigorously. I recall the time she unwittingly produced blossoms from dead limbs. Wish I could do that! She stuck the twigs, broken off a nearby tree, in dirt to mark the spots where she planted seeds. In Spring, peach trees sprang up like JohnnyJump-ups, eager to do my mother's bidding. "I don't...

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Categories: green thumb, garden, mother,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mother's Green Thumb
(A Shadow Sonnet) Earth mother, now return to Mother Earth for time has taken what you were born for. Listen for its call, oh dear one, listen, and answer, before it pulls both thee and me. As rain washes earth's green over me, I remember your thumb, stained green as I. Sun brightened the hue, rain chased the sun. hands tilled the...

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Categories: green thumb, environment, garden, mother daughter,
Form: Sonnet
The Cougar With the Green Thumb
There once was a cougar named Rose who kept the young men on their toes. Working in her garden they'd say "beg your pardon I'll bet you could use a good hose!" for Bawdy Limericks Two contest sponsored by Roy Jerden...

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Categories: green thumb, funny, garden, sexy,
Form: Limerick
Green Thumb Employment
Gardening pursuits A green and healthy income Seeds into flowers ...

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Categories: green thumb, work
Form: Haiku
My Green Thumb
My Green Thumb Whenever I bought a plant and tried To keep it watered and well fed The plant just shrivelled up and died Now all the plants I have are dead. I gave them light or lots of shade Did everything I was told Talked to them when they seemed to fade Kept them free from bugs and mould. I babied them and...

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Categories: green thumb, funnygreen,
Form: I do not know?

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