Long Fertiliser Poems

In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
Launched from Penlee lifeboat station in...

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gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...

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STOOL MATTERS--
O' crap, whatz wuzz that~!!
Oh, I stepped in and animal excrement, 
specially that of common domestic
 farm animals left in pasture used as fertilizer
Solid matter discharged alimentary canal
Protective covering

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Excrement, especially that of common domestic...

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Lay me to rest in marbled halls with angels at my head,
not lying here in the mud of Ypres with khaki turning red.
Let me die a noble death, one that's worth fighting for,
not to avenge...

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This was the way it was
In my childhood days
With ancient and tried
Crop farming ways.
Up to the ankles in slurry,
Muck fork in hand,
Ready to spread manure
To fertilise the land.
No tractor and spreader
Just an old ‘oss and...

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Inside grows dour 
each passing hour, 
another second hand 
mouthful of sand 

Falling into guillotined arms 
fully embraced,
Take me wherever 
inevitability goes,
Nah, been down that road
peeled back every layer,
there’s nothing there 
not even the bare,
Shine...

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Feel the pulse
Dawn ushers light;
Songbird sermon

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Noisy feet detour
Winding footpath;
Suffocates silence

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Busy overload
Mobile devices talk;
Choking silence

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Dreams evaporate
Working day attire;
Drowsy loitering

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Morning temple crowd
Chanting melody;
Incensed offerings

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Sleepy eyes gaze
Blurry focus here;
Work day conspires

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Blank faces
Crowded lift descends;
Zero contracts

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Strange interface
Sea of faces;
Out-of-place

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Subtle...

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Never will I give in, how many times will I reply?
You sing to my ear the same song
I will never dance to your music.......
You are a deceit I know of you
You aimed to deceive me...

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The farmer was defeated, he leaned against a gate 
He’d known the harvest would be poor the crop was sown too late
The fertiliser too was wrong and that had caused a panic,
He’d used a super...

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Ground pregnant with wetness,
the two lone trees stood in the walled compound,
on three sides there were walls,
on the other ran a drain,
a fetid mosquito ridden drain,
not much in width,
but so intense,
that odor competed with any...

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This is your day in the sun,
Your day of triumph,
Of commitment,
Of promise and intention,
Of New Beginnings,
The end of loneliness.
This is the new foundation,
The plying together of bricks and mortar
The bricks to give colour and shape,
The...

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My lovely Aloe Vera houseplant.
Why are you so unhappy?
Is it me? 
What more could I have done?
I dusted and washed your spiky leaves.
I waited until your roots were dry 
before I watered them just enough.
You...

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Being a gentleman farmer, should be wiser
selecting the correct type of fertiliser,
perhaps request information from adviser
would sure need to be free, because I'm a miser,
won't even spend money on an analyser,
just a poor farmer paid...

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Crabby morning

He looked down into the toilet bowl 
had shat and flushed, 80-year-old  going to waste
down a drain and into the sea.
70 years ago when he lived on a farm human and
Animal waste was...

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