Paddocks Poems - Poems about Paddocks

... 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......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...As the leaves brown, They float to the ground, Under the fagus tree. Animals sing out, Whilst new plants sprout, And the crows around flee. Jump across the bales of hay, Until the sun sets......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...on a chill morning a crisp sheet of white frosting coating the paddocks 29 December 2022 Poetry soup syllable counter......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

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

...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 Tanka 57577 syllable count......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...As the moon climbs high in the starry sky, I hear the penguins in their nest cry. The moon casts an eerie glow in the roaring ocean below. As The ocean eats away at the white sand, Each grain is ......Read the rest...

......I use these two as examples, but this trend goes far beyond them, the lefties just pick out some traits, unchosen by women and men, then build those traits up into walls, pens and paddocks, l......Read the rest...

...You've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was my sight! Have reminiscences of your childhood, in m......Read the rest...

...T’was dry the spring with thunderstorms that rumbled across dry; most every day was under sun or star filled sky, the grass had burnt off early; hay mowed this year was scarce, closed paddocks sav......Read the rest...