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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 song
And hark its piercing sound.

Your poison nettle vapours
Cling to my moistened lungs
And acrid nettle juices
Drip from my swollen mouth. 

Alone, now in death—
Eden’s angel looms
Sword

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

Tanka 001

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

Categories: nettles, animal, cat, feelings, funny,
Form: Tanka

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

Categories: nettles, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

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

Categories: nettles, childhood, growing up, introspection,
Form: Free verse

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

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

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