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Nettles Poems - Poems about Nettles


Tanka 001
i shout hello to squirrels playing in the sun they all squawk at me i fall on nettles and yowl ...

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Categories: nettles, animal, cat, feelings, funny,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Grasping Nettles
My father showed me how to pull nettles without being stung. With a confident and downward grasp and without hesitation, To grip and flatten the stinging hairs by following their direction but I have never reached to do it, or had any to pull in my city garden. I watched him dig sods with a spade and...

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Categories: nettles, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Marriage Fundamentals, Marriage Nettles
If we own love, we marry to share For each other to care For the long haul genuine love to declare Despite God creating us with different procreative functions Where God intended in marriage to impose no sanctions At the inception of marriage and later at mature junctions Where as husbands we play our more external roles While our wives...

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Categories: nettles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Beyond the Nettles,
there is a pond where the water lillies grow and children weep for their youth, the silent forces that make the moth to pebbled thought entombed in the shifting light of its bed, and Nowhere is a feeling. Remember the morning of the bird, the obscured pane, where nature died at once, and slowly even kisses were sharp and revealed some secret like a moth-wing...

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Categories: nettles, childhood, growing up, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nettles
God allows some nettles among our flowers, And as we encounter these days of frown. From the far horizon, a confluence of showers, To retain life's garden from remaining brown. Periodically we see our vitality shattered, As eternal sleep beckons those we love. We clutch God's hand as days are tattered, Thistles fixate vision on the throne above. As we yank at nettles...

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Categories: nettles, faith, inspirational, universe,
Form: Lyric



Ode To Jennifer Nettles
Wow it seems just like yesterday I sat there watching the CMA The rest is history what can I say An angel sang “Why don’t you stay” She was raw and raucous as I ever heard But all leaned forward to hear her words She held us in her reaching palm And she exploded like an atom bomb Jennifer, Jennifer won’t you sing...

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Categories: nettles, song-lyricwords, write, old, angel,
Form: Lyric

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