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Greensward Poems - Poems about Greensward

Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine

...Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine...

until courtesy amazing grace interceded
in the doggone guise 
of Canis lupus familiaris
unwittingly timely deliverance
v...
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Categories: greensward, adventure, angel, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Nightly Shadow

...The shadow in the night beckons.
I slowly rise from my warm and cosy bed
Only to follow the urge that drives me mad
Into spectral half-fledged woodland,
That spreads beyond my lonely tower.
 
W...
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Categories: greensward, dream, fear, night,
Form: Free verse



Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).

neverth...
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Categories: greensward, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNew Zealand Pastoral

...In the tea trees to the whistling song thrush
  I alone hear the first September dawn,
and outside beyond ryegrass, fern and rush 
  glisten woolly coats of sheep early shorn. 
Smell the petr...
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Categories: greensward, change, seasons,
Form: Sonnet

Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024

...Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be...
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Categories: greensward, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday,
Form: Free verse



My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and ...
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Categories: greensward, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux

...Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux

Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal 
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly 
ricocheting axon to neuron
induci...
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Categories: greensward, absence, allah, angel, atheist,
Form: Rhyme

Creative Cerebral Craftiness Coaxes

...Creative cerebral craftiness coaxes...

Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
unti...
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Categories: greensward, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...My nascent poetic tribute to black history month

more apropos and alternately titled: 
praise to thee people 
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancemen...
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Categories: greensward, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Rhyme

Farchadat Alte Kaker Here At Highland Manor Apartments

...I (a youthful sexagenarian)
can no longer quip being
a country boy at heart,
but me as urban cowboy,
I declare would never 
so fuhgeddaboudit dear reader
nothing 'cept bucolic existence
labori...
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Categories: greensward, adventure, atheist, character, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Break of Day Spawns Thwarted Revanchist Rebellion Among Biosphere

...The last trailing tendril filaments
of moon beams nocturnally trace
fashion an illusory gilded chariot Ark,
whence upon celestial runners,
the approach of dawn's early light
illuminated terrestr...
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Categories: greensward, abuse, age, anger, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

The Last Hoorah of Old Man Winter 2022

...The last hoorah of old man winter 2022?

March twelfth Ded Moroz
struts his white stuff
first real substantial puncheon
found Jack Frost in his glory,
he haint no longer morose nor gruff,
cuz ...
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Categories: greensward, adventure, allegory, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucas...
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Categories: greensward, abuse, dream, evil, february,
Form: Rhyme

October Twenty Third Two Thousand Twenty One

...October twenty third two thousand twenty one...02:44:06 PM
Eastern Standard Time abuzz auld Durin 
(ya know whit I'm Tolkien about 
Elder days long regarding) Autumnal thrum –

The perfect balm ...
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Categories: greensward, america, appreciation, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Smell of Fresh Mown Grass Last Day of August 2021

...Ah... already the summer 
approaches closing time,
but yours truly can squeeze 
one more rhyme 
before September first,
thus the following lines after...

Brainstorming, concentrating
panning...
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Categories: greensward, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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