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Merino Poems - Poems about Merino


Soudah and Dutchman
... Soudah and Dutchman Soudah, a Malaysian slave lived in Cape Town’s slave lodge, her knee bone damaged after decades of scrubbing floors. She escaped northwards, he......

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Categories: merino, africa, analogy, change, color,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member How Lady Learned At Last
...*** How Lady Learned at Last *** For decades, Lady daydreamed, wanting a full closet, A packed, complete fashionable style: Shoes to hats, to crown the French Bob Of shinny, brunnette tresses a......

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Categories: merino, character, emotions, fashion, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Love's Allure
...I always weep for you in the hush of eventide hills. In their mystical muteness I can hear your heartbeats. As tears indulge in indigo dusky deepening horizons, I put my hope in the last morning s......

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Categories: merino, absence, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Barefoot in the Savannah
... There once was a little boy from Trinidad found barefoot in the Savannah mini-clad. He started on his quest in a ripped merino vest but what adventures that little Trini had! ......

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Categories: merino, adventure, boy, child, engagement,
Form: Limerick
Outback Duel
...There are no laws designed by man that mean a thing out where, the drying sun on pastel lands can’t lead all to despair, where frightened eyes can see for miles across the saltbush plain, where de......

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Categories: merino, death,
Form: Rhyme



Radiance of the Sun
...S-un A-nd I-ts R-adiance H-ave E-mitted L-ight L-etting E-arly M-orn E-njoy R-ays I-t N-icely O-pens Topic: Birthday of Sairhelle Merino (May 22) Form: Vertical Mo......

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Categories: merino, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Farmer's Son
...FARMER’S SON There’s the sky, look at it Giggling with the high-mast light Twinkling not with the stars, but with rays of illumination Coming from the back windows of a thirty storey mansion, ......

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Categories: merino, depression,
Form: Free verse
Rowing Ruataniwha
...Thunderous silence in fresh mountain air Dragonflies land on a mirrored flat lake. A trout breaks the surface with but a swirl Hushed morning stopping to rolling vast cheer. Eight boats of rower......

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Categories: merino, beauty, mountains, nature, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Contractual Relatins
...Contractual Relations Coming to work every hazy morn Does not say my mind is still born! Nor, when I kowtow and say: Boss I equate you to He on the Cross! Monthly pay is neither excha......

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Categories: merino,
Form: Couplet
A Shearer's Spree
...Oh, a motley mob of rowdy men are we When we hit your town to go on a spree. We’ve fleeced the worst of their wiry wool And our canvas pockets are now brim full. We’ve come from the biggest runs nea......

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Categories: merino, history, me, me, men,
Form: Rhyme
Four Five Six
...Fluffy merino Jumping to and jumping fro…. One two three they go......

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Categories: merino, health
Form: Senryu

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