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Long Duckweed Poems

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The Billabong
There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do grow strong.
New life has taken over in a billabong.

The mat...

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Categories: duckweed, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Pinnacle of Shakuntala Part 1 Abhigyan Shakuntalam the Sign of Shakuntala
Vishwamitra was enraged 
how he been duped 
by Deity King Indra
felt ashamed of 
lost all the virtue
gained through years
after penance and asceticism
distanced from mother so child 
got back to penance. 
Menaka birthing queen melody
left newborn...

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Categories: duckweed, beauty, child, crush, destiny, father daughter, feelings,
Form: Epic
They Don'T Bite Like They Used To
He sat there in his fav'rite chair, a blanket 'cross his lap 
And covering his snow white hair was his old fishing cap. 
I knew he could not talk to me since suffering the stroke,...

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Categories: duckweed, father, nostalgia, social, dad, old, dad, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dancing At Twilight
The meadow's fragrance lingers
As twilight makes bold of its demand.
I deftly touch your fingers
Before reaching for your hand.

The fireflies are a twinklin'      
With a dance of love and mad torment.
The...

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Categories: duckweed, longing, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: Those Whom the Gods Disdain Bloat Tough In Hubris
Villanelle : Those whom the gods disdain bloat tough in hubris

Those whom the gods disdain bloat tough in hubris
Vesuvius sank isle strung duckweed in Mid-Sea
Tectonic plates clash Zeus’ curse sinks Atlantis 

Tough talk across Atlantic...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: duckweed, allegory, america, destiny, freedom, history, humorous, satire,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Villanelle:There Are More Poets Than There Are Poems
Villanelle : There are more poets than there are poems

There are more poets than there are poems
   Eveybody writes with some poets’ tongue
Do duckweed and mugwort breed well in loams

If only those who...

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Categories: duckweed, poems,
Form: Villanelle
Tinkering Saga
when we fall from our idle tongues
to the traveling tracks of virgin drums
and conclude our moist lips,
to the odorous of angelic bird-songs.
all to be our own little tinkering saga,
sailing over the alpha and omega.
chance evident...

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Categories: duckweed, forgiveness, happiness, hope, imagination, introspection, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Ripples Across the Lake
Ripples flow across the lake
A profusion of serpents swimming
Wriggling from shore to shore

Skimming stone takes four hops
causing rings to widen
Circles created by the hand of man
kerplunk, splish and splash 

Dragonfly perched on a cattail
flitting its...

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Categories: duckweed, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Somewhere in Russia
Somewhere in Russia there’s a pond
Blotched with the duckweed spots 
It seems a middle of beyond
Although it might be not 
A frog was sitting on a leaf
And then it jumped away
Perhaps it sensed a sign...

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Categories: duckweed, 10th grade, dark, games, surreal, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Meal Fit For a King
Out in the field is a bed of chicory,
down along the ditch, wild hydrangeas grow.
Dandelions in the yard are quite tasty,
so is the duckweed by the side of the road.

Wild lettuce, lamb’s quarter, and some...

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Categories: duckweed, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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