The confining construct
...There was a Time in my life where I tried to undermine
The lies in my mind
Time being spent tryna justify
Asking myself who’s this guy
Time to get rid of the disguise
Now I’m lef...
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Categories:
landscaper, age, change, devotion, time,
Form: Free verse
Poets and Painters
...“A poet brings a scene to a reader’s mind;
a painter puts the scene in front of your eyes.”
~ Beryl Edmonds*
Poets dip their pens in black ink
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Categories:
landscaper, perspective, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Ground All Around Safe and Sound
...in church congregate
our sins God did consummate
new life will be grrreat
when I cleaned up ground
it will look nice all around
being safe and sound
my house seems so swell
nice not lookin...
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Categories:
landscaper, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Red Carpet Treatment
...I was a professional landscaper, with passion for nature, and a green thumb,
Like passions of smothering, dreamy nighttime, to which we gladly succumb.
My work took me to many gardens, set in the...
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Categories:
landscaper, beauty, dream, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Autumn Falls-
...All the festives brilliant colorful brights
Universe pulling earth pulling cared away from sun
Tone changing physical a
Under God's hand
Master painter landscap...
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Categories:
landscaper, analogy, appreciation, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Acrostic
Firecracker
...every hopeful carnally bracketed thought
tries to jack in to the endorphin symphony
or make the mountains rise same thing
your brain the one manufactured by all those dents
has long been a mad sc...
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Categories:
landscaper, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Einstein Speaks
...Old Albert was frustrated.
He knew his famous ego-identity came from this solar eco-system
with four interdependent dimensional voices.
He felt his own original moment began with ZeroSum nutri...
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Categories:
landscaper, age, death, depression, dream,
Form: Political Verse
Gemini Seeks a New Job Daily
...Gemini seeks a new job daily
In summer she might be a disc jockey or a landscaper
In winter possibly a substitute teacher or a nurse.
Fall is for growing pumpkins, so she becomes a grower.
Spri...
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Categories:
landscaper, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
If We Just Disappeared
...Every month he cuts and styles your hair
She delivers your paper in darkness when you are not there
He mows your lawn and trims the grass' edges
She plants your flowers and shapes the hedg...
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Categories:
landscaper, absence, appreciation, work,
Form: Couplet
Autumn's End
...The birds are chirping
The landscaper is mowing
Sweets floral scents
Waft in the air
School is still out
Frolicking in the sun is still in
The games grown-ups play
Are those familiar to chi...
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Categories:
landscaper, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Flora Crescendo In Hawaii
...I believe that long ago, the universe’s most artistic landscaper mixed woodlands with tropics, mountains with heaths, and streams with waterfalls that were next blended with an ocean. Man named this...
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Categories:
landscaper, beauty, nature, paradise, universe,
Form: Haibun
The Forever Poet
...I am not a minority poet,
though I have known them on occasion.
Those who write a poem for school
or some brief love encounter
then never to pick up a pen again.
I am a majority forever poet...
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Categories:
landscaper, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
Take Me To Heaven
...I’m here and I’m manmade
Industrialization this tool allowed
Take me to day seven
So I can rest closer to heaven
With Him, we’re not alone
Hands and hearts in tune
Father, son and holy ghost...
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Categories:
landscaper, heaven, philosophy, religion, universe,
Form: Rhyme
You Asked Me
...To speak plainly
So you can understand my thoughts
To translate my dialects
With greater complacency
But, you cannot touch my smile.
You cannot touch my smile
Exhaling from these lips through
Liqu...
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Categories:
landscaper, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Rain - Fall Upon Me Again
...She entered my life upon happenstance.
I was unaware and naive.
No angels to carry my chin.
No raindrops to cleanse my emptiness.
"I am a landscaper without a garden.
Surely, you cannot help me?...
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Categories:
landscaper, happinessme, me, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
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