Short Dell Poems

Tell,

Bill,

Dell,

Well!...

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snowfall in the dell


spring blossom dies...

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there it is
lighting up the forest
candelabra redwood

Photo: Active NorCal...

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clouds eclipse the sun
my shadow plays hide and seek
on daisy filled dell

Brian Johnston
April 27, 2016...

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Dwindling dwarf continued to dwell
Down by the dubious Dutchman’s dell
Did anyone know
He was a dynamo?
I did, but I was sworn to never tell....

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Alexander Graham Bell
Phoned the farmer in the dell.
The farmer, wakened from his slumber
Yelled at him and growled, "Wrong number".

won 6th place...

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brightly turning leaves
autumn sweeps both hill and dell. . . 
imagery’s harvest 


For Brian Strand's Contest: A POESY any theme/form max 10 lines...

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It’s a wet place, where the words live,
Where dreams rain, and they all give
The words life.

It’s a dry space, where the words die,
It’s a rock-place, and it’s all dry
From hot strife....

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DELL THE FARMER

Once lived a farmer named Dell Doohickey.
Not hungry to learn, manners are sticky.
Sorry he ain’t.
Say please, he cain’t.
He would eat his words if not so picky.

8/13/2017...

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to dart the behind of legulars,to see the empty,to twain a melt,to even empty,i 
sweel,cant ya tell i can spell?my dell is veiled in immerse units,theres nothing to 
it,just do it.remorse?only for the horse one,of course....

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snowfall in the dell-
             spring blossom dies

sunshine on my face-
           summer's last hurrah

the tangle of Autumn-
           bonfired into smoke

candlemas evensong-
                winter's requiem...

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In a lovely village near the dell lived Jerry
He had an affair with a gallon of sherry
Imbibing the whole bottle,
He pulled hard on the throttle
And wound up very drunken in Londonderry. 

Written April 8, 2022...

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A morning breeze once came my way
    a gentle way to start the day
  
  Upon my cheek it rose and fell
    on its way toward hill and dell

  O, please return, yon welcome wind
     Come back and soothe 
                        night's troubled skin...

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The voice of the flowers flowed along the greenery in the dell.
One who heard their whispers was a pixie named young Nell.
She understood their excitement, but the words she could not tell.
For some secrets are best kept away from the fey, even in the dell....

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Hatchery of Verses

Rainbow soaks the nib of pen
In the solitude of the den
Metaphors vie to escape shell 
In that wonderful virgin dell
Cultivate syntax, in that hour
In the secret, sovereign bower
Leis of verses propagate
With fragrance fill my plate...

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Advice on Ice

Some advice is costly
Lawyers know this to well

Some advice is useless
Ask old Uncle Dell

Some advice is entertaining
Just go ask Dr Phil

The best advice though
Is best kept on Ice

Just ask the coach of the NHL
Don Cherry...

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To most city slickers I suppose
it’s a little hard for them to tell
the difference between a cowboy
and just a plain farmer. in the dell

Well one uses a horse and a rope
the other drives a tractor and plow
One smells like a fancy pickup truck
The other like the ass of a cow...

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Imprisoned by winter's cold, icy spell
 In shivering despair I await spring
 I can almost see  flowers in the dell
 Its promise fills my heart with such longing
 Soon my heart will be melted by its bloom
 And birds will delight to show off their plume
                              *
 1/25/17...

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Although I do not know thee well
Won’t you grant a little wish for me?
I can offer this lovely moonstone shell
Faerie Goddess of the Hollow Dell
Come out from beneath that pretty bluebell,
Your cellophane wings I still can see…
Faerie Goddess of the Hollow Dell
Won’t you grant a little wish for me?...

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In a shade of rest in a valley unknown of,
A lonely dell where no one calls,
A quiet depth, and little lighted,
Where no birds are, nor waterfalls;
Where Silence rules, and is king triumphant,
And winds bow down in lowly shame,
Walk I in peace in the early morning,
Walk I in gladness singing your name....

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One day as I walked through the dell
 I was enthralled  as Autumn leaves fell
  Their beautiful colors descending to the ground
 So soft was their fall, they made not a sound
 Soon these trees would stand bare
 To sleep for awhile till springtime came near
 And like the falling leaves, in silence I stood there...

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what is destiny is it all about the success
or the Triumph underneath the adversity
or the obstacles projected as we create our journey of life
hypothetically we all succeed in some manner but fail in most
So we glorify and we dell in the moment when we crossed the finish line
but rarely restrategize our failures.......

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Would rather recite poetry
in a forest
in a dell
in a woodland
in a meadow

Would be joined by
squirrels
chickadees
earthworms

Would not judge
my poetry and say you suck

Would rather recite poetry
by a river
by rocks
by jolly green giants
by humming birds

Would rather recite poetry
in nature than at an open mic reading...

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 A bird sings an ode to twilight
 Composed just for those purple skies
 Tomorrow when dawn breaks light
 It will sing a sonnet to sunrise
 On summer days when flowers gently sway in the dell
 Clouds float by in a periwinkle sky
 As summer cast an enchanting spell
 While a bird sings a song for a butterfly

 2-8-2024
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The snowflakes drift and dance around
Melt on our bodies, make no sound
Only muffled breathing heard
We make love with not a word

We fall into a snowdrift deep
Our balance had no way to keep
Not a flake between us fell
As we collapsed into the dell

We know not what the future holds
Just filled with love, as life unfolds...

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