Short Aboveground Poems
Short Aboveground Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Aboveground by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Aboveground by length and keyword.
Bittersweet
The aboveground nest of bees
brings sweet foodstuff kept in hives
as the colony carries
painful bitter bites....
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Categories:
aboveground, animal,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Above
I wish to return
aboveground to take a walk
with the wind and shake
off this stupored, spirit-mood;
this deranged daze by your side....
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Categories:
aboveground, love, romantic, together, true love, uplifting, wind,
Form:
Tanka
Aboveground
“How may I help you?” asked the quasi-mother earth counter girl at the espresso bar/quasi-coffee house, “Oh, give me a cup of house coffee; after all, I’m just a caffeine slut,” I replied,
She looked startled, then controlled, gave me my beverage and returned to the cultivated profanity of a repressed wildflower aboveground disconnected from her roots in the fertilely non-sterile soil of mythic satyrs and sacred whores....
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Categories:
aboveground, allegory, me,
Form:
Free verse
Waterville
The land around here looks like it belongs to the side of a lake,
it slopes downward gently, suggesting a meeting with water,
front-lawns surf on grass-rippling winds.
Water is forced uphill by a secret pumping station
on the far shore of the State freeway.
When it rains we consider this a near drowning,
backyard dinghy’s and row boats creak in the wet winds.
Our aboveground pools allow only space
for the whelping of baby seals, and we honor that....
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Categories:
aboveground, poetry,
Form:
Free verse