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Kew Poems - Poems about Kew

Premium Member Clerihew Ehret
...German Georg Ehret on a art profession his heart did set Spending much time at botanical Kew painting flowers with a minimalistic view* *https://www.printsandfineart.co.uk/artist/1892/georg-ehr......

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Categories: kew, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Moments
...Paper lanterns carrying spirits of the dead Wind their way toward the Sea of Japan; A procession bearing its own light, Silently, to a destination without moments. Moments, the interface throug......

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Categories: kew, analogy, time,
Form: Blank verse



Doggerel Ii
...Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse The Board by Michael R. Burch Accessible rhyme is never good. The penalty is understood: soft titters from dark board rooms wher......

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Categories: kew, animal, dog, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Poems About Dogs
...Poems about Dogs This Dog by Rabindranath Tagore loose translation by Michael R. Burch Each morning this dog, who has become quite attached to me, sits silently at my feet until, gently ca......

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Categories: kew, animal, dog, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Dog Daze I: Poems About Dogs
...Dog Daze by Michael R. Burch Sweet Oz is a soulful snuggler; he really is one of the best. Sometimes in bed he snuggles my head, though he mostly just plops on my chest. I think Oz was mad......

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Categories: kew, dog, family, friend, friendship,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Misc 74
... Misc. 74 Funny Thing Thoughtfulness’ are remembered long after the most lavish gifts have made their way to the landfill. Tom Second Nature Being thankful should be a thought-les......

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Categories: kew, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dale Chihuly
...Dale Patrick Chihuly His creations sell for mega sponduli A sculptor whose work is really first class I adore his flowers made from blown glass Last week my son went to the exhibiti......

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Categories: kew, art, flower,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Kew Gardens Spectrum
...In Kew Gardens I feast on daffodils and swans and honk- ing geese in turf protection mode and one spectacular show from a strutting peacock’s tail, its color chart exploding ......

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Categories: kew, assonance, bird, color, garden,
Form: Alliteration
Another Hansel and Gretel House
...The old lady planted roses near the corner by the driveway She never planted roses by the door I remember once she told me, "Bees come out to get the nectar" And a bee sting can be deadly or quite......

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Categories: kew, community, drug, fate, funny,
Form: Rhyme
04-22-18 - a Haiku Anthology
...mallards... a pair koi carp can't compete... duck feet strang orange shapes ~ sunshine... summertime fickle spring... climate changing muted cuckoos ~ Jenny wren... begging let summe......

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Categories: kew, nature,
Form: Haiku
Nat the Nut's Prophetic Vision
...No one seemed to take much note at first. Old-timers on park benches passed a comment or two, Somebody wrote a letter to the local rag, but no one (who mattered, that is) really seemed to mind. ......

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Categories: kew, angst, autumn, humanity,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Mother
...i am not one to probe closet or dresser I am safe with your secrets if any as my mother asked me on her last day to get the gun to kill her I kew all my childhood where it was and the speculum t......

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Categories: kew, abortion,
Form: ABC
From Kew Bridge, 1864
...A walk foreshortened by the Thames that once would flow through field and moor – now stitched and patched with dirty hems, a city’s outskirts of the poor. You used to walk here, years ago when......

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Categories: kew, nature
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Living Fossil
...A pot plant, this cycad- now four metres wide takes living in its stride- Kew's long-lasting pride Encephalartos altensteinii brought to Kew in 1775 from SA,grows one inch a year.......

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Categories: kew, nature
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member Vignette-Life Begins At Forty
...Travellor,painter,plant explorer With her coloured-filled fauna and flora- With ambition to display for public view A bequest to house them at Royal Kew. Now readily available,to me and you Tr......

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Categories: kew, art, nature
Form: Ekphrasis

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