Short Compost Poems

in the compost
an abandoned hollyhock
grows...

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halo cross pelican
kite raptor
compost scout Santa...

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uprooted oak trees 
storm ruined and left barkless 
compost for the woods...

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each little dry leaf
plays its mission perfectly ---
best fertile compost


26 May 2022...

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Egg shells, potato peels,
Fruit scraps from meals,
Coffee grindings—
From this…food springs.
06-24-78...

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fronds galore no chore

   cut  feed  thank  compost  love  mulch

       vibrant verdancy



20-8-2018...

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strong gusting winds swirl
leaves like kites with jet packs fly

fighting their demise
enjoying life now
freedom to soar high and far

tomorrow's compost...

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Brian Johnston
April 3, 2019

Poet’s Note:
I hope the reader will appreciate the fact that I do not claim that
the title is crap free!...

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Oh Lord,
Never allow the weeds
To grow under my feet,
Cause I might just be
Pulled out and discarded
Onto the compost heap of life…...

Francis Cooper – Mac © March 2016...

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And also, I love you,
He said.
To ease the tension
After telling me how I don't
Put away the compost,
I don't water the plants,
How I forget to wash the dishes.
And also, he smiled lovingly....

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Comp
Complex
Complexion

Complete
Competition
Completion

Comp 
Compos
Composition

Complex
Complete
Compost

Compound
Compound words
Compound sentences

Compost
Competition
Comp...

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I may be an asshole
and what makes this contest so hard for me

is I don't know if it stinks worse than it shrieks sirens
or shrieks more than it stinks compost.

Dilemma unresolved.
Thanks for listening....

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              of rape and shame

          now her perfume’s gone 
     fresh compost came to reclaim
             then a bud appeared 
             earlier than expected 
   should mulch propagate his name 
...

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I dig a compost pit,
to dispose the rubbish
since 1996.

I get the match,
put a kerosene gas.

Voila, they are now ashes,
the whirlwind carries them
away,

hoping they won't drift
and drop on my shoulders 
again....

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LEAVES

just one
spiralling

left behind by friends
eager to catch them up
to be swept up together

“this year’s leaf pile next year’s compost”

1st June 2022
Pyramid Poetry Copntest
Image 2
Sponsor - Joseph May...

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Trump Not Perfect Host

Trump has not been pleasant, perfect host;
Appears out of night like a pile of compost;
Are always bound,
To see flies around,
While he will seem to both brag and boast.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet...

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When archeologists dig up the bones,
it's not likely that any of them moans,
"Forgive me if I have you mis-gendered."
Apple trees are by their fruit remembered.


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H/T to An Apple Is Always an Apple by Milt Hankins...

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Compost, understanding nothing of the depth beneath. It
may be not understanding the words spoken to it.
Unless the subject does something to make it disappear, walking up the stairs.
Feeling no pain, and not trying very hard. I saw myself stanning at myself....

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Ask me what I did today?
Me and the other 2 lads from work
Went to the dump 
And we had to go and dump the rubbish 
In the organic compost section at the back
Ill be honest with you it smelled really awful 
In fact it burned my nostrils stunk like ship
Funny though...

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Soup and greens,beer and tea
buttlerfly young just love me,
aphid trap and liquid feed
ladybird heaven,yes indeed!
I love phosphate & nitrate soil
such versatility reduces toil,
my leaves quicken the compost
all this for free,at no cost!

Okay,okay,yes I sting...

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Golden gossamer gown
Gently falling. Autumn
Gives her gift to earth so
Generously. I watch
Gardeners rake dead leaves
Gathering them up to
Generate fresh compost 

Checked with how many syllables 6 per line

Pleiades G Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman...

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drawn down in 
consummation
from heaven’s compost
I shall not be.

hacked as though
I were a succulent berry
juiced for the taking
I shall not be.

caught vole by a
diving shrike’s
talons
I shall not be.

I shall be Houdini
wriggling free.

    
©June 18, 2012
Kathryn M. Collins...

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 The Note

Compost
Bin held the note
Written in poetic form
Love poured out upon the blank page
Decayed

Written by: Sara Kendrick
March 06, 2016
Form: Cinquain

The  Bus Depot

Grey Hound
Waits for no one
A rented box contains
Smart phone, credit cards, love poem
Transport
 ...

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Which is the truest measure of a life,
the leaf's annual departure
into Earth's compost pile?

Or the tree's root system
of timeless regenerational reforestation
slow-growing interdependent organic species?

Yes.
Both short-flowered leaf and root flowing systemic,
Left-patriarchal
with Right-matriarchal....

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What is this creepy thing
Infecting my body?
Busily digesting my flesh, melting,
The first stages of the blob.
End of my extremities
Swell ominously, wriggling,
Undulating like giant worms
Busily digesting my tissue
I’m becoming what I fear most,
Mistaken for castings
Shoveled up and thrown
On the compost heap....

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