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Nettle Poems - Poems about Nettle

That Is How Small The Mind Could Be To Beat
... Soft heart can tell the silent dark sky's heat, Red eyes might grow tough to handle mettle... That Is how small the mind could be to beat. Finger might flip up hints to pure deceit, Somewha......

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Categories: nettle, allusion, betrayal, class, discrimination,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Row by Row the Nettles Grow
...Row by row the nettles grow And circles do surround Hairy stems the prison wires And jagged leaves their barbs. Cry out, forsaken sinner Your voice shall not be heard We listen to the wind s......

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Categories: nettle, christian, death, death of
Form: Free verse



How To Make Him Hit
...I know which cup to leave chipped in the sink, Mouth open begging for rot. I know which word to spill— Vinegar, nettle, sour-spit— To make him blink slow and tight, The way thunder coils before ......

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Categories: nettle, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Insignificant Monster No More
...Drained of opaque innocence Perfected by your toxicity, I was laid bare beneath the narcissistic sun, Searing deep within dehydrated pupils, Stripping my soul of all humanity, until your siniste......

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Categories: nettle, dark, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lamentation
... The seashore holds me in grief entwined with moss and nettle; while thud of echoes returns more shrill than a gull's lament... In decibels of love passing I hunger for night's soft ca......

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Categories: nettle, loss, love,
Form: Verse



Different Circles
...Shadows like a life that hides upon The butterfly effect on the pond— By young twilight, coming through a shriek, Nettle of the stillness changed and gone. From my shadow self, her meeting's ga......

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Categories: nettle, beauty, butterfly, change, deep,
Form: Rubaiyat
Probate
... A cracked windowpane. A few daffodils peek their heads through the weeds that grow tall where flowers once smiled. Purple nettle chokes the life from any grass courageous enough to try to stand in ......

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Categories: nettle, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Summer
... when my heart breaks for the morning, yet yearns for the starlit skies, I know that the music of summer is playing across my life ~ quote by poet ~~~ Summer covers the earth in ......

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Categories: nettle, summer,
Form: List
Premium Member Mozart Requiem
... Written: February 13, 2023 ____________________________________________ An anathema for, pilose nettle burns, an art form of unstable feathers, tropes across the ivory cuticle......

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Categories: nettle, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Pristine Swan
... Written: February 07, 2024 ___________________________________ It appears as if the world has been  coated by a wave of  deceitful dictums,   where faked reality   a......

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Categories: nettle, analogy, appreciation, culture, music,
Form: Free verse
The Snake’s Humble Bow
... The chittering Crickets were hidden deep, ‘neath fairytale canopy of Dead Nettle & Chickweed, There the Bee hums over their tiny forest, a dancer of Meadow’s flower, Grace between Comfre......

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Categories: nettle, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fox Cubs and Foxgloves
...Mother was away, plucking hens So I got my mead, in the special hip flask Sat by the fence, just by the green Time slipped along, Ken joined me there And the day was bo......

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Categories: nettle, beauty, drink, friendship, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nettle
...Soup and greens,beer and tea buttlerfly young just love me, aphid trap and liquid feed ladybird heaven,yes indeed! I love phosphate & nitrate soil such versatility reduces toil, my leaves quick......

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Categories: nettle, garden,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Least
...Beautiful the ugliness of scented sweat. Resists the idea to flee. The least needs the soldier’s help. The bleed of his forehead - whether this soul is of tares or weeds. This dreadful beast is......

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Categories: nettle, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Storm
...We cannot tame a raging storm, so with patience, we must wait for the calm. ~ by poet The balmy afternoon had been fulgent and warm Until darkness foreshadowed an approaching ......

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Categories: nettle, storm,
Form: Sonnet

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