Paddocks Poems - Poems about Paddocks

Devoid Of Fear

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I feel safe and whole here
Devoid of fear

Alone listening to the rain
Devoid of worry or pain

Cocooned by green paddocks and trees
Devoid of thoughts of death or disease

No humans for...

But not the mountains

...But Not The Mountains

There is no sound from the mountains
Unlike that of  the Magpie
The kereru or the Bell birds
Or the tractors rumbling across the paddocks

There is no sound from the mou...

My drug of addiction

...I see peace in the bright blue skies, in the paddocks green
In the warble from the magpies tounge in the breath of
God I come undone, in the pouring rain there are melodies
To heal hearts and fill...

In the Cycle Of Existence

...On reflection, a shining  mirror lays my core ethos bear,
inkling etched on mien can’t escape deep probing,
tilted jaw, gleaming eyes, vivacious aspect,
express an ardent quest for exponential flo...

Where Do They Go

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You see them everywhere,
sometimes countless in number,
winged, walking or wading,
running the gauntlet of waves,
filling the air.
Birds populate the planet, 
make their home in trees,
bui...

Mushroom Picking

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In the cool of an autumn morning
my father and his friend, 
Jimmy Kerin, would go
mushroom picking in paddocks 
way out past the last suburban fence.
I would tag along not to pick
but feel th...

The Aftermath

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Meaning is over there,
beyond the burnt paddocks
and blackened hills, 
the crumpled, flattened ruins
of houses. It is further out
than that nothingness glazed
upon the distances 
of a vacant...

Velvet Glove Compartment

...Age defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers 
slid over an intermittentl...

Recursa Absurda

...Straight lines, sepia

The suppression of unwanted thoughts

Like time spent in sensory deprivation
Time spent in a droning room
Under sterile light hums, practically drooling

The vacuum of ...

The Greenhouse - a True Story

...I have a little greenhouse
It sits wobbly on the hill
Constructed from a kitset
Requiring monumental skill

A 40 page instruction book
Said it was a simple task to do
But I was not convinced
...

Frost

...on a chill morning
a crisp sheet of white frosting  
coating the paddocks 



29 December 2022
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July Winter Storm

...trees along the fence line strain
stretched tight by the wind
turning inside and out 
leaves in all directions 
buffeting and thrashing in the howling gale 

sheets of horizontal rain hammer th...

September Spring

...Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling 
              bitter southerly wind still bites 
              sleet, horizontal and cold, flattens the daffodils
sudden rays of bright warm sunshine...

Play

...warmed earth from blue skies 
falling down flat in long grass 
my whole self laughing
we had the best fun playing 
hide and seek in hay paddocks 


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A Lay For a Day In May

...Day I've known in early Autumn
You are spring in winter long thought on
How truth differs; three have I known
Two hemispheres I now call home
German day in such heavy leaf
British may I've known...

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