Long Shovel Poems
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Summer Solstice 2025
Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
shovel, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All the store fronts were decorated; it was a colourful sight...
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Categories:
shovel, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
The Daily Star Thursday issue
The Daily Star Thursday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This...
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Categories:
shovel, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june, star, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Uncle Arthur
‘She’s on again - the annual campin’ trip regatta,
and we’ve got ourselves together for our plans to Wonnangatta.
The high country; you can’t beat it for the peace and quiet
unless of course some plans get...
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Categories:
shovel, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Daily Star Tuesday Issue
The daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people...
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Categories:
shovel, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form:
Free verse
My Alphabet
A a big A little a
What words start with the letter A
...
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Categories:
shovel, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Mirror
The Mirror
When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be. A little lost girl that was so abused and so misused, so ashamed of who she...
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Categories:
shovel, change, child abuse, endurance, family, growing up,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir
Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
shovel, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
shovel, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Daily Star Announces Summer Solstice 2022
The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022
Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people living the northern hemisphere.
Just shy...
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Categories:
shovel, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, creation, devotion, june,
Form:
Rhyme
Syria Reconstructed
It is in our fragile, nearly broken, exposure
that we are most available for love
and remedial gratitude,
rather than the louder applause
of our full-blown ballistic glory.
While exercising restrained patience breeds tolerance,
giving pregnant reign to co-empathy compels timeless...
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Categories:
shovel, deep, earth day, health, love, mother, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
Fork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
shovel, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Everything I Know
Everything I know...I learned from children’s books
One day I ran to Grandpa and I looked into his ear.
“Mommy says you’re pretty smart…do you keep your brains in here?”
“Oh, It’s too dark. I can’t see...
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Categories:
shovel, books,
Form:
Rhyme
Everything I Need To Know
One day I ran to Grandpa…And I looked into his ear.
“Mommy says you’re pretty smart….Do you keep your brains in here?”
It’s too dark in here. I can’t see a thing…I don’t know what to do.
Grandpa...
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Categories:
shovel, childhood,
Form:
Verse
Thomas Found the Philosopher's Stone
Thomas was walking through his favorite part of the forest,
where the overturned giant oak tree has been a sitting spot
for him since childhood, the part of the forest that is lit
a little bit thanks to...
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Categories:
shovel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Narrative
Max the Wonder Dog
An Introduction to Max
Hi, I am a mastiff cross and my name is Max. To be precise it’s Magical Maxi the Wonder Dog but you can call me Max. That’s not to say I...
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Categories:
shovel, dog, friendship love, magic,
Form:
Prose
Scent of Death
You narrators from far, from my chamber I call. Take the story that I've told & may you tell it to all...
& so it began, that this poor little man
Took off through the bog with...
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Categories:
shovel, allusion, bereavement, heart, lost love, pain, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Revenge Kisses and Afternoon Shams
Have I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand
One cascades and the other crystalizes
But you...
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Categories:
shovel, emotions, extended metaphor, fear, imagery, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Teaching An Old Dog
All I remember is going into the garage to get the snow shovel.
I am not even sure how much of the driveway I managed to shovel. Apparently, I was lying in the snow...
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Categories:
shovel, life, child, christmas, me, nice, people, home,
Form:
Narrative
Intermission Fool - Cafeteria Monitor
Can I go to the bathroom? This place is full of jackasses. This place is full of jackasses jerking each other off. This place is full of ignorant, parochial, zit-sucking jackasses undeserving of their place...
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Categories:
shovel, 10th grade, allegory, food, school,
Form:
Burlesque
The Giveaway Song
As her EarthDay drum calls out
to inside outside severance
Amid EarthTribe's gathered laughter
and sorrow,
speaking
and listening,
singing
and silent witnessing,
Earth's wealth
leaks nutritional health
gifts sharing value with every messiah
in sunshine circles
of care giving
and receiving
sacred shifts
toward cherished bright esteem.
In...
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Categories:
shovel, appreciation, caregiving, earth day, giving, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Scratch
Back when the strange appeared uncommon,
I knew I was just beginning
To scratch the surface of the truth.
So I got myself a shovel.
As I dug deeper, I discovered my scent so jaded
As to not...
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Categories:
shovel, allegory, journey,
Form:
Blank verse
When the World Grew Wings - Full
There once came a day
when the world took flight
('twas only a handful
who gaped at the sight)
For when she spread her wings
so few could believe;
and fewer still
could keep alive the dream,
that had awakened for all to...
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Categories:
shovel, allegory, allusion, beautiful, earth, metaphor, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Snow Job
We headed out for old King's Hill
with our flyer sleds in tow
when Mrs. Miller called us,
"Can you first come shovel snow?"
"Do the walks and do the steps,
and do the driveway too,
then you come up...
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Categories:
shovel, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Day In the Mine
ANOTHER DAY IN THE MINE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I woke up this morning with a pain in my back
From a cold wind blowing in through a crack
I sleep with my little brother and he hogs the blankets
What...
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Categories:
shovel, character, environment, father, father son, freedom, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme