Snow plow man
Driving along steel on the road
look in the mirror
salt falls from my load
Moving just as swift as I can
Look at me
I'm the snow plow man
Snow piles high as it moves off my plow
push back corners
the kids scream WOW
working round the clock all through the night
Clearing the roads
With determination an might
Road to road
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Categories:
plowing, cute, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Watching Amos Plowing With Horses
“Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth”, without a glance.
Amos t’aint much for words as he stares straight ahead
His gaze as straight as his furrows.
Amos is what you might call a “deep thinker”.
I watch as he bounces up and down on the plow hitch
The bells on his mighty Percherons jingling with each practiced step
As they perform their timeworn
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Categories:
plowing, history, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Plowing With Horses
The horses hitched, the team stands ready
The farmer’s hands on reins firm steady
Prepared to work with heads held proud
To challenge fields that lie unplowed.
With gentle hands he guides the crew
To plow the furrows straight and true
At corners turn, a pure ballet
These mighty steeds, grand Boulannais.
All day long they mind their plowing
Weather fair, daylight allowing
The three
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Categories:
plowing, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Changes
plowing ahead she rises to the occasional
pique of future flowing moments unfurling from
the pages of the book stuck together like morning
eyelashes fluttering, no cause necessary, just practicing
push pull not the same as yes or no...paralyzed in some
moments along the river bank of fog, lazily drifting
doing some fishin’ I think...not sure for what
no bait...none taken,
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Categories:
plowing, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
Plowman
PLOWMAN
(for Bill Troy, and Messer’s generous
free Plowman Day.)
Not soon enough comes the thrill of snow!
for plowmen who beckon the blizzard’s fall
anxious to use his craft of geometric cut lines
and angles of blizzard white in reverse drive
so shines a man’s intuition of spatial awareness
a gift more like knowing than
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Categories:
plowing, appreciation, inspiration, life, snow,
Form: Free verse
Plowing the Sands
We are reasoning the limitations of women,in Islam,but we are giving non-religious freedom to women in our own land,what we do,is not defending Islam;It is just plowing the sands.
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Categories:
plowing, religion, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Plowing the Garden Haiku
plowing the garden
hot summer sun bearing down
recipes in mind
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Categories:
plowing, garden, memory, remember,
Form: Haiku
Plowing Furrows
The seasons are running with a plow straight over my face
and creates furrows for tears under my eyes.
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Categories:
plowing, seasons
Form: Dramatic Monologue