MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
...MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
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crackerbox houses
a house a plumber
could afford,
barely.
I recall the pecan tree,
remem...
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Categories:
pecan tree, 12th grade, home, memory,
Form: Free verse
Late Freezes
...In the spring of '23, at first, all looked pretty and free.
The first year in our new home, we anticipated a beautiful canopy
as the trees began to bear buds and beautiful blossoms. But then
came ...
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Categories:
pecan tree, spring,
Form: Prose Poetry
Miss Maroon
...The prior property owners planted the most beautiful flowers.
We took possession last December, and this is our first spring.
For the first time, I noticed a lovely flower a few days ago
and last ...
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Categories:
pecan tree, flower,
Form: Narrative
Great Bloomers
...We stand stately and beautifully along the
front lawn of a gentle lady who loves flowers.
Our biggest dream is that we will grow and be like her.
She's kind and giving, and her life greets you wit...
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Categories:
pecan tree, flower, tree,
Form: Personification
My Pecan Tree
...there stands
such
a gracious
elderly lady
positioning
herself
in the confines
of my fenced
back yard,
silent
as she speaks,
nor moving
her limbs
until the winds
comes
to rob her
of ...
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Categories:
pecan tree, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Through
... spring green leaves
'pon the pecan tree....
gold full moon appears ...
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Categories:
pecan tree, moon,
Form: Haiku
Salad Days
..."Salad Days"
My days, I find,
Are as full as I choose to make them now.
I may opt to spend the day
Watching the birds at play
In my wobbly old bird bath.
Or pass a smile
Watching th...
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Categories:
pecan tree, age, appreciation, beauty, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Snow Birds
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Snow Birds
Written: by Miracle Man
January 2, 2021
Chickadees, Finches, Cardinals and Wren,
at peace with each other neath our Pecan tree.
Unaware of size, or color, as it is with me...
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Categories:
pecan tree, bird, god, life, men,
Form: Lyric
Dawns Serenity
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Dawn’s Serenity
By: Miracle Man
October 3, 2020
The street light is severed by Pecan tree branches,
leaving abstract designs painted on the ground.
Fog, taciturnly, engulfs our yard ...
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Categories:
pecan tree, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
I Have a Pecan Tree
...I found a pecan on the ground
I picked it up when no one was around
Sitting in the hall outside of class crying because her classmates were teasing and talking about her. The student didn't want to...
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Categories:
pecan tree, cheer up, encouraging, heartbreak,
Form: Narrative
Prayer Garden
...a garden storm —
pecan tree topples
offing tattered flags
6/30/2018...
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Categories:
pecan tree, storm,
Form: Haiku
Mercy Miracles, Letter To My Pastor
...Dear Pastor:
Your sermon yesterday triggered memories going back more than 50 years.
During the Jim Crow years in the South, I was about 12 years of age when out of nowhere it seems, a man came...
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Categories:
pecan tree, christian, forgiveness, miracle,
Form: Narrative
Aloysius Bamblebee
...I see him lounge beneath the pecan tree,
nursing his alcohol as he hides from his young cousins.
They want to play army men with him some more,
but he has already been losing for hours.
Poor b...
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Categories:
pecan tree, boy, life, memory, riddle,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rraine
...Falling ever helplessly
Into a burning sea
Of passion and desire
Where Rraine surpasses me
Comforted of saving grace
Unending empathy
Rising to a cloud of peace
Where Rraine inspires me
N...
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Categories:
pecan tree, desire, longing, love, passion,
Form: Ode
Singletary Hill
...Expressly of my hopes and dreams, the passion in my heart
These words I now declare to you, a token for my part
I’m saving all my kisses up, just one dream to fill
Soon I will deliver them on Sing...
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Categories:
pecan tree, kiss, love,
Form: Verse
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