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Herbage Poems - Poems about Herbage

Premium MemberBoston Ivy

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POTD~

In the misery of a paler grey nightfall
she blinks like citrine glazed along walls,
Ivy of Boston flaunts her shimmer without guilt
as palette of amber claims her lustrous glides 
slit...
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Categories: herbage, passion, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSanctuary

..."The forest is a sanctuary where you can grow to be you," ... by the Poet.

The passing of a torch, when Spring was announced, 
was noted in the melting quarter of winter memories, as a su...
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Categories: herbage, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Free verse



Heaven

...I can often (sometimes) almost
feel it.
It’s not a place, not anywhere,
not heaven sent or given.

Sometimes it’s a soft sticky fig,
on the back of the tongue
or a color that should be painted...
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Categories: herbage, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDecember Scene

...the scotch pine looks white
herbage seem to poke at him ---
snow nostalgia



08 December 2022
Winter Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...
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Categories: herbage, nature, seasons, winter,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberMaze

...I found a chateau lawn once, teeming with charm
A  MAZE it was,  growing cluttered yet it had an air
Of much lushness TURNING the space into a hued mantle;
Where PATHS of herbage, blue...
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Categories: herbage, garden, memory,
Form: Light Verse



Premium MemberLifeboat the Hippo's Tale

...Part 4

Now by the end of the day, it was easy to say,
    The Hippo was gracious and kind.
With no desire to offend, it seemed a genuine friend
    And they were glad not to leave it behind.

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Categories: herbage, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Athenian Epitaphs

...Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only th...
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Categories: herbage, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberThe Turnip and the Cabbage

...A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't any feet.
Before you judge and criticize, 
    I beg your minds to wander.
To take a m...
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Categories: herbage, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme

My Sweet Home

...Home,my sweet home,
Where blue tranquil rapids flow,
Its meanders run in symphonic rhythms ;
To the left and right aside,
It holds my village firm;
Yellow is ripen glow of lavish harvest;
Land ...
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Categories: herbage, beautiful, beauty, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberSummer's Soliloquies

...Sun's flames burn through hazy, midday heat
Raising fierce winds -- dusty, choking ...
Fiery orb descending toward horizon's lair
  ~ Ghostly white moon rises, painted on low-ceilinged sky

Bare...
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Categories: herbage, farewell, nature, sad, summer,
Form: Free verse

Skying An Oar

...Long time ago, in lonesome youth shine
In a wonder state of boykind
Making paper pontoons
Skying an oar, in a creek lagoon
On a yummy, afternoon
In swampy, draconian, water spittoon

The artsy...
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Categories: herbage, youth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHarvest of a Season

...Sweet the bounty imbuing the meadow
With ripened fruits, herbage, and oats,
And children raise their baskets under lush trees
To  pick  pluck nectar of mid-autumn’s  regale...
While older folks r...
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Categories: herbage, blessing, celebration, thanks,
Form: I do not know?

Lost In Dark Silent

...Lost In Dark Silent

When I look back the silent darkness
I had left in the deep woods
a long ago
where I had planted few seeds
of my memories to grow
but I found those seeds grown
with thorn...
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Categories: herbage, emotions, nature, spiritual, ,
Form: Prose Poetry

Bones Lay

...Back age of brute creation 'n herbage beholders
Hominoids have stayed for bodiless years 
Jumbled brains on battered shoulders 
With rash of lacking space frontiers
On brief planet lay all the bo...
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Categories: herbage, death,
Form: Quintain (English)

The Burrow

...My heart lays within the burrow. 

In the stillness of this place there is beauty, its envelopes the terrain. 

Softness is embodied in the rich colors of both shade and hue. 

Lush emerald her...
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Categories: herbage, animal, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Ballade

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