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Roods Poems - Poems about Roods


Daylight Savings Time Ends November 5th 2023 Means

...Daylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means...

discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.

Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night
occurs...
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Categories: roods, autumn, business, confusion, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Various Heresies 5

...Various Heresies 5

Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch

July 7,2007 (7-7-7)

Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temple...
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Categories: roods, creation, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Verse



Premium Memberreturn to Flanders fields -

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my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
          on throes of horrors shrouded with the hilt
               of war's inanely senseless blade, now dulled
     by all the precious soul...
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Categories: roods, history, loss, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGroundhog Day

...This February will not usher spring,
wisteria like grapes hung on their roods;
more pewter shadows does the season bring.
Now I've misplaced all the beatitudes

to lambent grasses flocking on th...
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Categories: roods, nature, winter,
Form: Sonnet

The Trek

...The distant of our journey does not count
Only the direction we take;
Eagles keel upward in their mount
The winds chose for the falling flake.
And I, I set my face to the woods
When I left my house; ...
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Categories: roods, faith, introspection,
Form: Verse



Trek

...The distant of our journey does not count 
Only the direction we take; 
Eagles keel upward in their mount 
The winds chose for the falling flake. 
And I, I set my face to the woods 
When I left my ho...
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Categories: roods, political,
Form: Free verse

The Famine Ship - a Smile Born At Last

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Terence a Griffiths of Tyrone or Leitrim!
Did he know but later of 1820 he would be there born
A Flax Grower a renter from landlords of Lord Leitrim's domain
To thresh and sack and cloth and so...
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Categories: roods, familyfamily, home, family, food,
Form: I do not know?

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