Long Horse chestnut Poems

[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...

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Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale

Living social amidst 
crime infested urban jungle 
bumping uglies cheek to jowl 
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors 
spurred subject matter in question
to journey...

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2007
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the country stile
hedged the wild flower meadow
where I sit awhile
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shadows in the sky-
fluttering across my eye
a brown butterfly
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on the wind,a bell-
muffled from across the square
raindrops fill the air
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on the lawn
lily petals timeworn-
summer draws to its...

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We know that trees reach...
Ignoring the substance
of Earth and seeking
the damp and the light,
the wet on the way,
to the light on some
far side, a far side
with promise of light
when all here is dark.

All moments are...

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When I was a lad about nine or ten
Summers were long school holidays great then
I played in our street we had so much fun
Me and my mates in the warm summer sun.

We felt really safe...

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Watch and listen carefully.
There, do you hear the stirring?
Wander over and move the bracken
see the hedgehog scurry away,
now fat and sleepy


Tall pines are waving
as the gentle breeze blows
branches are dancing


Aromatic scent of their wood
floods the...

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the silver birch
it likes to hide
so as you search 
at eventide
you find it there with many friends
playing poker through the night

the common oak 
a wise old man
an aging folk 
since time began
grandfathers of the forest...

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  The cottage with its black window frames and white pebble dash glows in the 
  summer sunshine.
  The hum of the lawn mower can be heard cutting the green lawn dotted...

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flies out sunning
stunning spring weather... cold kills
feed garden wildlife

warm... freezing cold
resilient are daffodils
built-in antifreeze...

koi still not feeding
hiding frog surprises all
a puffed up Robin

northeast... grey clouds race
trees braced ready to refrain
dark sky's stunting growth

lilac... green buds...

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The gifted house and the ghost of his Grandmother trapped him. Her presence clung with the leftover nicotine to the walls of every room. A childless marriage and a rancid divorce left its bile in...

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