How Now Slough
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Although
it’s a hard row to hoe
a rough furrow to harrow
and a tough trench to plough
there’s many a meadow to mow
I hereby avow
and tho' it may be news to you
farmers have the need
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Categories:
harrow, animal, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Nature of the beast
...Enjoy the hunt.
Savour the kill.
Sinew and bone.
Blood let to spill.
Such little flesh.
Least have your fill.
Was not to live.
Only the thrill.
These woods are mine.
I stalk this place.
O...
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Categories:
harrow, death, people,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasy train
...Fantasy train
It’s night. Central London, the last subway train left Bond Street station.
The train was speeding along with me and a few other passengers.
A so powerful dream in a wonderful fant...
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Categories:
harrow, death, fantasy, life,
Form: Free verse
The Gauntlet
...Step where I have stepped,
tread where I have trod,
weep what I have wept
and crawl where I have clawed.
Then, and only then,
may you judge what I've selected -
only then have you earned my y...
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Categories:
harrow, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Farm Machines
...Build machines than can
Plow and harrow fields; that's what
My country need now....
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Categories:
harrow, engagement, farm, perspective, proposal,
Form: Senryu
If I led Russia?
...Some different tactics in negating a war, a Russian
Schematic, quite probable i'm sure.! To any armies
Poised to strike.? Consider this soldiers' as you might?
Like 2 acres of land? to till and ha...
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Categories:
harrow, adventure, appreciation, assonance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Confused I And Stressed In London
...is everyone from Barking Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Stre...
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Categories:
harrow, city, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Harrow on the Hill
...Harrow on the Hill
Nice, beautiful, and stunning place
Harrow on the Hill
I have been here many times, and a new life has taken over me here
Harrow on the Hill
I love this place, I meet my s...
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Categories:
harrow, life,
Form: Free verse
Paradoxical Perfection
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Written: November 19, 2023
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Beyond the ethereal hues, reigns peace,
Incongruous with intrinsic ease.
Noshing desire tugs a...
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Categories:
harrow, analogy, appreciation, happiness, sky,
Form: Rhyme
The Mirth of Monsters
...A picture appeared on my phone today,
on the proverbial page I perused.
A view of an evil most vile,
villainy veiled behind verve and vim.
Sadists from Auschwitz,
smiling in a storm.
Should...
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Categories:
harrow, evil, fear, holocaust, horror,
Form: Alliteration
Village Childhood
...He was the village blacksmith
To us children he was known
As our adopted Uncle Wilf
They’d no children of their own.
Six days a week he worked,
His hours long and physically hard.
Our cottage b...
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Categories:
harrow, childhood, growing up, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Kiss
...Kiss, this is my kiss for you which
Makes everything ambrosia, nectar
And panacea of the mesmerized life
Where heaven also comes down
With the twilight twinkling stars
To light up the dark lam...
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Categories:
harrow, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Identity Alters
...The Marvel comic book unique character,
Mark Spector, an American mercenary,
called the Moon Knight, becomes the avatar
for the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu.
He assumes the identities of Grant a...
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Categories:
harrow, mental illness, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Ultimate Sacrifice
...I run from memories, stained in enough felony
After a failed choreography to budge up new colony
To annul life, yet live the same life pieces harmony
Quick succession of bolding and evanesce jeopa...
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Categories:
harrow, analogy, celebration, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Back In 88
...I am looking for a book I left
on a train back in 88.
A book concerning explorations made
on the Metropolitan line
between Harrow-On-The-Hill and Croxley.
An odyssey
only reaching its destinati...
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Categories:
harrow, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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