Long Horn of plenty Poems

Beyond the Realm of Wishes
In sun-scorched dunes 
beside a weathered sentinel 
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / 
grazed / its secrets unknown / 
a genie unbound.... 
a muted haze.

Three worldly desires danced...

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Secured into my compartment, power nullified
I stand no longer needed, my files deleted
void are my eyes, no energy in my circuits
tomorrow to be scrapped.  My Master has gone.

She was my mother
created me and my...

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Solitude breeds malignant nemesis
couched as woe seated heavily
within mine angst
riddled quavering psyche
blinding clairvoyance 
debilitates enthusiastic frequency
wavelengths propagate unfounded
probable future destitution

predicated upon intractable lifetime mired
within groveling penuriousness
"dirt poor" accursed fate
pervaded plentiful not ready 
for prime time...

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Cornucopia
          By Dane Smith-Johnsen
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Cornucopia
          By Dane Smith-Johnsen
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United at the family hearth the united kindred do gather,
Heart and home filled with holiday warmth, these are the
Blessings of Thanksgiving.
Legacy’s treasured reunion, our loved ones sharing traditions
Sacred season, with their heads bowed low in...

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13

bayside rumours of war
and flowers blossoming thirst
for sacrificial blood
cut my weeping heart out
ensure another flawless sunrise
confusion moments of despair
deceived beyond deception
their laboured cry heard no more
my voice remains
slower traffic keep right
my fist a burning piston
line...

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Imagine a standard barrel of crude oil – 42 gallons.
The barrel unit of measure dates back to 1859
When Pennsylvania oil wells were first drilled
And the wooden ‘tierce’ wine cask
Holding 42 gallons and weighing about 300...

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The sun is hot and hard to bear
All out of options – nobody cares
You're looking for an accomplice in your greed 
So who's gonna come to the aid
Of a leper in need?

You tasted too much...

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Cornucopia

Trumpet Sounding – abundance Resounding –
A harvest not Empty – a horn of Plenty –
Season bounty Astounding – safe from snowbound Surroundings
Fall Caressing fair autumn Blessings.

Sweet orbs of Green or burgundy Seen
In arbors that Wait...

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This ocean so full of constant commotion,
for many it can be the horn of plenty, 
if they know how to trudge on with devotion,
else its infinite choices can so portent be.

To swim true and graceful...

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Gone are the days when Blissful Power wandered
The world and people were blessed with miracles.
The sufferings of the mankind now echo unheard,
As hands of Humanity are tied with wicked sickles.

Hunger of the Deprived, Clothing of...

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The Scales of Justice didn't tip my way,
I figure from the dues I've had to pay.
While thumbing down to Shaky Town 
I thought I turn my luck around, 
At a drugstore in Salinas on a...

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How lovely you are our Boar Head bar maiden
We fancy your red -long curly hair
For a grin we are treated when you bend at our table
To wipe away- our spilt dark brewed beer

Pour us another...

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Thanksgiving Day  with prayers of thanks and blessings

Hue of warmth and rich amber and scarlet crowns losing 

Ardent colors gleam beneath the trees as the golden sun is burning

November cool days are filled with...

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The needs and wants
that freedom flaunts
so worth the heavy penny
for all the cost
of each battle lost
reminds me of the horn of plenty
in which the air of our fathers fair
was one of giving and sharing
now all...

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A cornucopia comes to us
Inside of a goats horn
It's an abundance of plenty
It is surely nothing to for you to morn

You should celebrate you see
For it's an inexhaustible store
Within in this horn of plenty
You'll never...

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The more I learn the less I know
global warming closing Eskimo Joes
Rivers run down but the Nile runs up
first taste of beer from a tippy cup
Dead birds pile high at a windmill farm
going green what's...

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Cornucopia 
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THANKSGIVING

Butterbees glazing
Wing’d gobblings

Horn of plenty
Our honeyland

Mannah-maestro conducting
Xylophones with silver spoons

Misting maids of ‘mooners
Golden streams of Gilead

Move to Everest
Not that cold

Idaho mountains and valleys
Of beaten snow

Iceberg quakes
Gravyboat overflows

Yellow teeth
Nothing more than gobs

Those kernelly cobs
Piled the highest

Waiting...

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Thanksgiving comes and goes,
The cornucopia is the horn of plenty.

Filled with fruits and delicious foods,
Looks beautiful on a Thanksgiving table.

The pumpkin and gourds compliment the table,
The Thanksgiving dinner, a turkey with potatoes and vegetables.

All our...

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Sweet the bounty imbuing the meadow
With ripened fruits, herbage, and oats,
And children raise their baskets under lush trees
To  pick  pluck nectar of mid-autumn’s  regale...
While older folks round up for  a grateful...

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Thanksgiving Friendship,
Parents and children gather to give thanks to God.

Thanksgiving Friendship,
There is a beautiful cornucopia on the table.

Thanksgiving Friendship,
The horn of plenty, filled with fruits and nuts.

Thanksgiving Friendship,
An orange pumpkin and squash decorating the table.

Thanksgiving...

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Cornucopia

The season arrives and and I must prepare
my horn of plenty will be dusted soon
to garnish anew with all fruits and greens
and feed my Muses with such tender care
a  broken horn that Zeus had...

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Harvest Bounty

Season of harvest, horn of plenty;
Tiller of soil reaping the fields:
Grains and legumes, hay and vegetables,
Fruits and plants, gourds and melons;
Filling silos, barns, pantries, and cellars.

Grapes abound, on vines climbing trellises;
And plump, red tomatoes...

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