Long Woodruff Poems

“What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight?”
by William Herebert, 14th century
translation by Michael R. Burch

Who is he, this lordling, who staggers from the fight,
with blood-red garb so grisly arrayed,
once appareled in lineaments...

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Psychopath definition: A mentally ill or unstable person. A person who engages in antisocial behavior and exhibits a pervasive disregard for the rights, and feelings, and safety of others.
 Serial killer: Performing a series of...

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Samuel Woodruff was a very old man, who once drummed for the army;
That marched to his rhythmic music, along with all fifers, playing hearty.

That was a lifetime ago, in dawn days so pink, golden, and...

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A hundred-ten year old soldier was interred in Arlington Cemetery today.
Corporal Frank Woodruff Buckles now sleeps nigh his comrades in sacred clay,
Awaiting that glorious morn when Gabriel's bugle will sound that final call,
To fall in...

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Lisa Desjardins ducked down while "The Jan 6,2021 "Criminal Inserrection" was taking place. Lisa put her life in "Harms way on that terrible day"!Lisa Desjardins said to herself I can! Democracy itself is at stake...

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Poetry is a busy crosswalk downtown,
when everyone moves together with elbows 
held a little wider than normal.
Poetry is a middle-aged man, creased 
and folded, sprawled out on the neglected 
weeds in Woodruff park, eyes wide...

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Blossom of baby's breath,soft white gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship swaying pelts of grass with purple vetch & ribwortplantain, clover in English rain.Scabious,burnets buttefliesand bees...

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I was walking through Woodruff Park
again today, although it felt a little
bit more like swimming; I had to backstroke
my way through viscous Summer air. 
As I stopped to catch my breath
and towel off, I saw...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 3
Blossom of baby's breath,soft white
gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow
rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.
Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship swaying pelts of grass
with purple vetch & ribwort plantain,clover
in English rain.Scabious,burnets butteflies
and bees...

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Follow the track with the scenic view,
into the wood with a carpet blue.

Between clumps of gorse in yellow garb,
along a path baked summer hard.

Around shadu ponds that teem with life,
rush and sedge amidst tall loose...

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Sliding another coffin nail out of sky-blue cardboard,
lending yet another piece of myself to a stranger.
If giving a gift is giving part of yourself 
you can find me in the lungs of street
performers in Rome...

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blossom of baby's breath
soft white
gorse crusted yellow

weeping willow
rush patterned lace
 pasture in pastel green

buttercup daisy
comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship

swaying pelts of grass
 with purple vetch
& ribwort plantain clover

scabious burnets
 butterflies & bees
scent the woodruff

briar brambles
in hawthorn sprawl
dogrose so tall

seabank of scattered seaweed
Alexander’s leaves so green
 & feathery fennel aniseed

fat hen so vibrant
 shoots of vimen
in Lamb’s lettuce

wild radish cress&chive
majoram &sweet cicely thrive
seabeet chard  survive

wild parsnip
& tansy to savour
stinging nettles so green
...

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