Horticultural Incest
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Horticulture? truly awesome!
Granddaddy’s timeless illusion -
one giant synthetic blossom
swirling midst rustic seclusion.
Fascinated by back-crossing,
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Categories:
horticulture, 11th grade, flower, mental
Form: Quatrain
Your Way Out is Through the Garden
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seventeen years we went before I knew your friends
names you barely know now and you kept them
absent from me as you keep yourself still, so leave
stay cradle-tucked away as a soothing, sour ...
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Categories:
horticulture, age, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Here Comes the Sun
...I wonder if you read them
I hope that you still do
I've tried but I can't seem to stop
Writing odes to you
They're my way of saying
You're so hard to forget
Though I'm not really trying
No...
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Categories:
horticulture, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Amaryllis
...Actually two of them
Were bought
Though quickly one of them died
In a clearance shelf
At Target
to raise one never tried
The remaining bulb
for five or six years
In varying stages of lif...
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Categories:
horticulture, encouraging, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Understanding the Need
...Retirement, helping with physically challenged
Thinking it through or just ignore it.
Chance provides an opportunity
Such a sad place, lack of unity
Challenges waited patiently.
Physical chal...
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Categories:
horticulture, career, caregiving, destiny, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Tabled Fall Flowers
...tabled Fall flowers
tremendous bloom of color
unnatural vase
the horticulture of cards
opens recipients’ smiles
11/3/2020...
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Categories:
horticulture, flower,
Form: Tanka
If I Could Splice Two Trees Together
...If I were a horticulturalist like Sam Van Aken
I would splice a banana tree with a strawberry tree.
Strawberries are not tree-grown?
Okay.
Then I would splice a banana tree with a peanut tree.
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Categories:
horticulture, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
A Glorious Alchemy
...Dewey decimals assemble
our common presence.
Your horticulture hands hide
that landscaping manual's lengthy title,
but this is my isle
and I've held that identical gardening guide
like a ...
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Categories:
horticulture, books, desire, earth, garden,
Form: Alliteration
Enhanced Techniques
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Verbal gymnastics
twist the real meaning of this barbarous truth
To kill is called to sanction,
deliver the package is black ops captured proof
Approval of torture
moves a scared soc...
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Categories:
horticulture, dark, pain, perspective, truth,
Form: Narrative
March Lets Go
...MARCH LETS GO
On my knees, cosseted by blue jeans,
I tender the soil with magic beans.
March lets go of the Winter’s lien.
Clearing snow, dusting of royal green.
O the earth is sudde...
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Categories:
horticulture, spring,
Form: Monorhyme
Our Abilities Discovered
...I beg on behalf of the human race re. our effects on mother nature.
Help is what she needs, her abilities slighted
Atrocities committed by man impeding her adventure.
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Categories:
horticulture, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Our Abilities Discovered
...OUR ABILITIES DISCOVERED
I beg of the human race re. our effects on mother nature.
Help is what she needs, her abilities slighted
Atrocities committed by man impeding her adventure.
Verily, ...
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Categories:
horticulture, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Ibrahim Binta
...I- marvel at thy ingenious blend of depths
B- eautiful like golden apples in a silver filigree
R- einvigorating the curious minds
A- rt thou an internet search engine?
H- ey World! A living libr...
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Categories:
horticulture, africa, art, love, thank
Form: Acrostic
The Gardener
... "Horticulture is a groping in the dark
into the obscure and unfamiliar " James Tate,
from his poem, The Definition Of Gardening
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There is an art to gardening, yes t...
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Categories:
horticulture, garden,
Form: Free verse
Mgc
...Straight rows of soft chairs, larval eyes stare blank
Absorbed by glowing colors on the wall
Their jaws slack, fetid whiff, unwashed and dank
Arrested minds the blue screen does enthrall
Their ...
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Categories:
horticulture, america, political, power,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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