Short Cress Poems

mountain spring
a deer nibbles placidly
on water cress...

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Gods of possession
Purple rock cress cleave the hills
A profound tension...

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Wild boar artichoke terrine
Barbarie duck with
sweet & sour orange sauce jus
rose water ice-cream
ameretto cream
No credit 
Crunch !



Home made vegetable soup
Cold  Dripping on toast
One Fried egg, sunny-side up
Cress and chive salad
Bread & jam sandwich
Don't bank on
It!...

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I wish I were a river
How beautiful I would be
With a flowing mane of green water cress
To wave so eloquently

To lie upon my back all day
And feel the winds pass by
To see them stirring in the trees
As it billows through the rye

Glorious is the river 
As I sit beside its flanks
Oh, what a perfect picture
This regal river makes...

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Wrap me in your brown sugar
arms cress me with your kiss

Embrace me with your words
of love and sooth me with a wish

Give me that caressing look I feel
deep in my soul

You have the power to give me joy
and hold me with control

Take me to your place of love and
make everything all right

Give me love, Show me love, Be my love

Be... My... Love...

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Traveling cosmos in a star-crossed house at rest
She watched for dreams, catching only the best.
How the house was motorized is anyone’s guess
She traveled around the stars, our friend Ma Cress.

Mystically she was in tune with another world.
Her hopes and dreams were not unfurled.
But we were in awe of Ma Cress for sure.
Her dream state was decidedly totally pure....

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Cold water lapping
Quiet barking and a quick 
Splash out near the bay

Songbird in brisk rain
Perched under a broken branch
Nest in tree hollow

Floating atop it
Our paddles swept through the lake
A budding blossom

Blushing and a chill
Moon wane and dragonfly hiss
Step on Winter cress

Red fox hunts in reeds
Swimming after a small mouse
Sky is clear and bright...

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The glow of the dying sun
Colors the city pale orange.
Only a moment the scene lasts;
Turning to memory so foreign.

The orange glow cress tulips,
Lending them a vivid hue.
Only a season tulips will last;
Wilting until their next debut. 

The glow that fills the hearts
Of lovers in embrace;
“Forever” they say it will last,
Until lovers knot unlace.

Why must beautiful things
Fade away and die?
Leaving taunting memories
Which will fade in time?...

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