In Marked Territory
...Acres and acres of barren land.
The dried tumbleweeds roll across the open field,
their roots dry and uprooted.
The quiet cotton field where slavery once beckoned,
the sounds of voices chanting,
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Categories:
horse and buggy, boy, fathers day, horse,
Form: Free verse
Please come join me in spirit if not in body
...Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional
I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of hours
before edge of night,
wh...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, absence, animal, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Fulfilment
...A winter's horse and buggy ride
Despite the chill I'm warm inside
Hot cocoa and a quilted seat
A blanket and our body heat
A frosty night that's crisp and clear
There's no one else but us righ...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Love Americana Style
...Pick a place you want to go
The answer never will be no
How about a rustic inn?
One where we have never been
With cottages on private coves
Overlooking lilac groves
Horse and buggy romance ride...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
A Smile To Began the Evening
...Contrasting and full of range.
He featured styles that were
in tuned to her octaves.
She wished him to shine to
show a world her discussion making
abilities. She knew that her range
her assign...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, business, engagement, music, repetition,
Form: Ballade
Resumption of Daily Nightly Constitutional Lap2
...Just on the cusp of experiencing joie de vivre,
the triumvirate of Crooks and Quade
figuratively swoop down
to announce re: inspection
of apartment unit B44
whenever they deem appropriate.
Th...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
After the Church Service
...Upon the freshly fallen snow
Outside a church a horse and buggy
Waits for the owner to arrive
They are going for a ride
To a farm that has a sleigh ride
In the farmer's field close by
Enjoyin...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, drink, farm, food, fun,
Form: Free verse
Autumn's Arrival
...Autumn's Arrival
Leaves radiate vivid colors beautifying elms mesmerizing dubious eyes
Seized out of wooden closets woolen sweaters and scarfs would suffice
Warm breez...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, appreciation, joy, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Horse Play
...
Hearts hear happiness breathing
Heavenly hope free of grieving
Hesitating a healing hearth leading
Home that happens to be heaving
Harm that has heard the pleading
Haunting hastening ...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, angel, fun, funny, heaven,
Form: Alliteration
Technical Difficulty Zooming Into Meeting
...Regarding yours truly
he experienced setback
amplified by Luddite propensity
nostalgic longing for simpler age
bring back horse and buggy
better yet find me a mancave
and/or apprise me
ideally...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, 12th grade, betrayal, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Bring Back the Horse and Buggy
...Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, per...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ice Say Water We Dew Wing To Planet Earth
...Ice say... water we dew wing to planet Earth?
Tis appalling *****sapiens legacy,
the future survival of species can ill afford
hence we must not dodge and dart away,
but heed urgent call to arm...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Corn Huskin' Bee Circa 1892
...In November when frost was on the punkin and corn was stacked in shocks,
And the snows began to fall and geese flew southward in V-shaped flocks,
'Twas time to gather in the corn for a huskin' bee ...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
A Rural Road
...To find I will a rural road
Where horse and buggy were the last,
While of today I will unload
And dream only of the past.
Far away from the interstate
Upon a road without a sound
And even tho...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
To Old Places
...To old places would I could go,
With these photographs to remind,
Where horse and buggy in time slow,
On dusty roads mine to rewind.
Where upon a porch made of wood,
In a rocker where I would ...
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Categories:
horse and buggy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
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