Rakes Poems

Sun and Storm Song

...Triptych 8-20-25 Sponsor: John Anderson
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sun and storm song

eerie storm warning
light swallowed by ebony
banshee ballads rise
in mantras of hum...

Sping

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winter rakes garden
frozen leaves wither and fall
they return in spring
to sapling of yearning heart
life blooms with luster of love

lush lilac lilies
paint Monet on flushed meadow…
dew ...

Burden

...To be a burden means to not use the tools strewn about. 
The rusty trowel and bucket filled with half-thoughts.
Be a burden. 
Your words are just wailing and buzzing at us.

I can be a burden. 
...

OF WE TOOTHPICKS AND RAKES

...Picking and raking,
Cleaning the political 
Garden of Evil,
Know that while gardeners die,
Rooting out trash must go on:- 
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Koropuko Falls

...
Hunger for perfectly placed punga path 

Snakes surely slowly..garlanded scarf 

Turns & rakes fern festooned forest floor

Sun dappled glade, bathed and swathed 

Glorious green sheens in ...

oblong songs

...burried and cured in sod's wallowing gallow
ground as tender flower of wonder
reading worlds into the hands
mired in swallows and clawed
she began trunks of brooches
for her second son
to flee ...

Ration

...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...

Ration

...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...

Balanced Madness

...

The marooned mind gets confused 
by the maddening ways things happen,
lies hidden somewhere in the depth of perception,
maybe in the undefined gene of reason,
forming the motif of indoctrinat...

Christmas Cause

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‘twas the night before Christmas at this North Carolina farm,
The chickens were cackling, so the roosters, they’d charm.
Never had I discerned how the stars could reflect such calm,...

Forest Trees

...Trees in the  forest
The leaves fall spreading
Shedding piling down
No one rakes them
They just spread outward

When winter returns
With the first snowfall 
Bare trees are coated
With the sn...

raking leaves

...mom rakes piles of leaves 
kids with bikes scatter them 
causing mom to yell...

We will-shake his stage'

...He was a one who liked the bums, who filled the blanks in
Others puns.' He took the literary litrally..And lauded all the
royals most librally' he was into his cottaging i beleive?
He kept some tr...

Heat of Summer

...Summer's sun is scorching hot as it sends its fiery burn.
Carnival laughter shakes the air when July takes its turn.

July means more litter, as plastic bottles fill the street.
The sand that was...

Solid Gray

...
Solid gray skies
   Over daylilies trying to bloom
    Several different species so colorful
      Open only a day, live life to the fullest
        What have I done with my nearly 29,151 d...

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