Blue Pushes Away The Grey
...As spring leaps forward
And winters shroud
Is cast back
The putrid stench of earthy damp soil
And the litter of fallen leaves death and decay
Along with freezing damp foggy mist that bites
Fade...
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Categories:
scrounges, birth, blessing, blue, spring,
Form: Free verse
In a Shared Garden
...In my vegetable garden,
birds are watching me, pick
green beans to eat.
A lone robin, scrounges for seeds, from sun flowers.
An old, twisted oak tree,
filters the sunlight.
The cool, fi...
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Categories:
scrounges, animal, appreciation, environment, flower,
Form: Sestina
All Democrats Do Like
...All Democrats Do Like;
Democrats always do like and enjoyed;
And with Republicans, we are annoyed;
Often scrounges;
Mostly lounges;
Which is really why them we will avoid.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
scrounges, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Capital Bust
...Pennilessness shadows black
unemployment endless track
rails tie-er less lee when dumbly staring
overdrawn account issues
another clattering smack.
Income pleat undergraduate degree
contr...
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Categories:
scrounges, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Pastoral
The Bus At Night
...The? ?stench? ?of? ?old? ?cigarettes?
?follows? ?him? ?to? ?his? ?seat
He? ?scrounges? ?in? ?a? ?tattered sack? ?
to? ?avoid? ?the? ?stare
of? ?a? ?woman? ?with? ?smooth? ?skin
He? ?didn’t...
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Categories:
scrounges, poverty,
Form: Free verse
In a Shared Garden
...In my vegetable garden,
birds are watching me, pick
green beans to eat.
A lone robin, scrounges for seeds, from sun flowers.
An old, twisted oak tree,
filters the sunlight.
The cool, filte...
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Categories:
scrounges, animal, garden, gender, nature,
Form: Sestina
The Mistress
...She was a mistress
Just one of many
And now she scrounges
For ev'ry penny...
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Categories:
scrounges, people,
Form: Quatrain
Take Out
...A seagull scrounges
pokes through earth in search of lunch
grabs a morsel - leaves....
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Categories:
scrounges, animals, funny
Form: Haiku
In the Silver Rain
...Awaiting the descent of light,
Darkness befalls
Intimate shadows emerge,
Within a silvery...eerie mist.
His dark...predatory presence,
Atop her pallid...shiny skin
Entwined...silhouettes
Unr...
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Categories:
scrounges, fantasy, imaginationdark, dark,
Form: Free verse