The Snakes in a field of Green
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I inhale deeply, take the first step with desire in my soul to grow
to be the seed replanted in the soil to receive Vitamin D from Father Sun
I wanna be free, but I know I cannot fear living
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Categories:
replanted, 9th grade, art, dark,
Form: Narrative
Death of a Pine
...Adopted early after birth
Replanted back into the earth
From small to tall, a tiny root
Withstanding all and resolute
It whispered and it whistled
Every wind song that it knew
It's verdant ne...
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Categories:
replanted, meaningful, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Queen and Slim
...I love you he said
I love you so much I'm never letting go
You can't share a love you haven't given to yourself yet
So, I dug up the dead pieces of my heart and replanted them
Love is the only ...
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Categories:
replanted, black african american, i
Form: Spoken Word
the obstacle
...The obstacle
After the none violent revolution in Portugal
1972, as often happens in my life when something
unusual happens, I was there, not knowing I was
witnessing history
My ship came to ...
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Categories:
replanted, anti bullying, anxiety, books,
Form: Blank verse
Weeding The Garden
...Callous rows gone fallow
human touch embraced
Hate uprooted — Love replanted
tilled in Heaven’s grace
(Dreamdleep: February, 2024)
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Categories:
replanted, garden,
Form: Rhyme
A Little Caveman Reasoning
...I have always liked the hollow dark,
the cave, the sealed carcass of the night,
the lightless womb of the closed seed.
You said you were human,
and I laughed until my belly shook the earth.
I ...
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Categories:
replanted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Moving Out
...I was born in a muddy time
created to be a field of broken bricks.
Years wove their weeds.
There was hope,
enclaves of suburban heavens
old men in grim pubs spoke of.
You might think
that ...
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Categories:
replanted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou...
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Categories:
replanted, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
Worth the Trouble
...beautiful orange dahlia
must be dug up in the fall
replanted every spring
dainty, fragrant, fragile, pretty dahlia
worth the trouble, if you live in zone 5
and I do...
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Categories:
replanted, flower,
Form: Free verse
The Crow Bar
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"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injec...
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Categories:
replanted, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
Chapter 84-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Quest
...Date: December 2040
Damian is on the phone speaking
With architects. He made
Airline and hotel reservations.
Soon Afterwards he went
To Molly and caressed her away from
From a sweet dream...
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Categories:
replanted, africa, age, allusion, beauty,
Form: Alliteration
Working the Land
...The estate of my spreading life
has been plowed over many times.
Plantations have withered and been replanted,
grain fields have turned to dust,
have laid fallow for years
yet now the corn is hi...
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Categories:
replanted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mixed Ancient Metaphors
...The words taste like music
from worlds long ago
Each letter resavored
in harmonies old
Coming to harvest
their sweetness imbues
A cave for an orchard
in wall painted hues
Old symbols ret...
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Categories:
replanted, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Freed-I'M Free-
...Been searching for it;
It’s already been found;
Been looking for it;
Already on my mind;
Well
I am a wretched undone;
Just me myself a lonely one;
I been livid, living life sinfully;
My Lor...
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Categories:
replanted, analogy, appreciation, song,
Form: Lyric
Corn Fields Already Glue Themselves To a Yellowing Future
...If you lean slightly left
while facing the sewage plant
then that view of Ohio
could be back in the 18th century,
there's even a long cabin
resurrected from somewhere else
and replanted here.
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Categories:
replanted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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