Peas on Earth
...The pearls of life are
strung like green ornamentals
on the equator...
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Categories:
ornamentals, christmas, earth day,
Form: Haiku
Phoenix Resiliency
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Written: January 28, 2024
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Under a shivery midday embrace
In a shade of algid sun's rays
a hung flamboyant, peacock flower
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Categories:
ornamentals, analogy, appreciation, hope, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Raptor's Eye
...EarthCare Elders
repurposed our red brick industrial
BrownField
Including a rusted metal box
the size and shape of a giant's coffin
orange and dingy brown
metal flaking paradox
floating towa...
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Categories:
ornamentals, earth, health, power,
Form: Political Verse
Internal Dialogue-Debate
...I have an internally repetitious desire,
need,
want,
to seek reassurance
Not so much about,
Am I the fairest/ugliest of Them all?
But, lately,
more maturely,
rationally,
calmly and yet c...
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Categories:
ornamentals, appreciation, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Cooperative Journeys
...It interests me,
this journey into the garden
each spring
to notice how diverse vegies
and flowers,
edibles
and ornamentals,
pollinators
and soil enrichers,
work cooperatively together
when...
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Categories:
ornamentals, anti bullying, appreciation, community,
Form: Political Verse
Faith In Green Communion
...He said,
Your faith community's secularizing problem
is too much dogmatically intolerant rigidity.
You reek of green political correctness.
She replied, indefinitely concluding,
You are un...
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Categories:
ornamentals, earth day, green, life,
Form: Political Verse
Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
...I.
Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
Unisex Trees, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding God's earth
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Categories:
ornamentals, adventure, beauty, earth, earth
Form: Ode
The Permacultural Brain Surgeons
...Honey,
please don't even try to get me interested
in your Cranial Ontology Department.
You know how the name itself
puts my brain to sleep.
Yes I noticed your tendency to snore
when I am thin...
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Categories:
ornamentals, caregiving, culture, deep, health,
Form: Political Verse
Oceanic Sabbath
...We have no sabbath sense
deep enough
wet enough
searching baptismally enough
for Earth's oceanic atmosphere.
Sabbath is for monotheistic cities
and castled lands
we anthro-supremacist share...
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Categories:
ornamentals, addiction, earth, health, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Backyard Politics of Love, Etc
...By now this self-analytical Left mindbody lens grows thin
imagining dualistic cultural dominance,
logically sciencing,
rationally defaulting to either-or assumptions
supposedly proving either x o...
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Categories:
ornamentals, earth, happy, health, humanity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Trees Rooting With Me
...Last Autumn we invested in a 0.5 acre
of Mother Earth's aria,
as sung to Thames River swell and tide,
New England new sprouting this our virgin spring wedding
with this home place,
space of grac...
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Categories:
ornamentals, creation, culture, earth, earth
Form: Political Verse
Upside Down the Ancient Bole
...The white-breasted nuthatch
upside down the ancient bole.
If it has no soul, neither do I.
Pencils criss-crossed on the desk,
sticks tangled on the ground.
Oblong lenticels, yellow stars.
W...
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Categories:
ornamentals, bird, death, earth, hope,
Form: Verse
Where Ornamentals Grow
...In deepest wood
A home once stood
Roses bloom by chimney fall
An old stone wall
Lines remnant trail
Gives heed to open well
Where lilacs trace
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Categories:
ornamentals, imagery, time,
Form: Rhyme
Celebrating 50:Iv
...Still the green tolling hope
Like Bedward's jeremiad
Or Garvey's trope
Is something to tell about
Still it drinks sun's fire
And from this alone
Makes bread and water
A man find
On rare fruit trees
S...
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Categories:
ornamentals, political,
Form: Free verse