Short Fenced Poems

fenced in
yellow bitter weed field...
horses graze  ...

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Writer's block
Has found me;
Walled me up
And fenced me in.
My dulled pen
Very faintly
Scratches 'help'......

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Fenced off with a comb
New age sand crab’s beachfront home
Cup of styrofoam

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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airborne pathogens
fenced world out of kilter
impulse to Mars brews

















Haiku composed: August 21, 2020...

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A siren's call
Echo's of white fenced bliss
Painted with silence it's ghostly pickets
Allured enchantments
The muted past of her remiss...

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Epigram
When parks have been fenced in and locked
And school play grounds shut down
 Will children be safe or lose their freedom
Behind dark curtains?...

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neighbors dogs fenced in 
run about the yard and play 
can't come out on the road 

they play ball and fetch 
follow owner when he mows 
wait at their back door...

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African Lion Safari, a joy to behold
Fenced in wildlife, a vast expanse unfolds
Lions and tigers at play
Hyenas, no favorite I'd say
Perhaps an African Hyena Safari of their own...

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A simmering smoke surrounds me
And it’s you
Coming to abduct me 
From this life
I’m in your world now
Fenced in by loyal love
Confined by durable devotion
Would you mind
If I stayed forever?...

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Crippled thoughts
herded together,
fenced in, 
anxious,
desperate to 
bloom and die
like dammed tears.

Perhaps I could write
if not intimidated
by contours of ink
that might 
disturb the pain....

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Fire in neighborhood
makes you no victim
rejoice, laugh, feast
if you are the bull, ram
in the kraal fenced
the rest cows, sheep
what makes you sad?
joyfully, scatter your lips
take an extra bottle
that was carelessness
of the neighbor...

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Fall, fenced lane, warm sun, 
leaves rain except for one. 

Gnarly tree stretch out limb 
reaching free, soften dim.  

Somber swing hangs alone, 
wish children bring, grace shown.


8/30/2021

In Essence 2 Poetry Contest
 Photo 2
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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... I saw the wind
pull a sheaf of yellow leaves from the cool-burning sky,
throwing them across a fence,
and I suddenly realized that
the glory of an autumn afternoon
had been stolen and fenced,
yet returned in priceless gold...
... what a thief, the glorious wind!......

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Charlie says he cannot talk,
For he is a dog, a dog,
That can walk,
Jog not for him,
Is much too hard.

But has fun playing,
With his toys,
In his fenced in
Backyard.

Sorrow for him,
Should not be shed,
For happiness abounds.

Come have a look,
See how happy.

He can be....

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my eyes are blank
your heart stank
but i snorted it all up
anyway-- i can't see
in the dark (much blind)
yet i still seem to 
find my way where i
need to go. emotion is
archaic, etched in stone
covered in moss- i am
alone, at a loss for
de(fenced in, tangled
in the vines of a past 
unsurpassed)....

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I was once an actor,
But the lawyer came.
I was a fighter, too,
But the referee came.

They chased me throughout the forest.
They kidnapped me from the wilderness.
I was stripped to skin.
I faced death.

Now I am fenced
within the prison of helotry.
Now I cluster with the billions ---
Fenced within the prison of helotry....

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The fragrance of a memory
From childhood long ago
I’m brought back
To a fenced in backyard
Crayola blue sky
Burnt umber ground
Islands of green and yellow grass
The scent of Summer Hill wafts 
As the unseen is revealed
A dream remembered then forgotten
You say it didn't happen
I recollect the aroma that says it did...

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The simple bench sits
Unoccupied now
Classic table holds
Intent to write poems
Correspondences

Light sweater blown
Onto yellow
Roses, walkway
Empty no one

Garden neat
Perfect plants
Fenced closed

Where is.......
Empty

Bench

("The Bench"(The Garden Of Versailles) Edouard Manet (1832-1883/French) Oil On Canvas)...

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Amixst the mix
as you're tossed in the mix
blended and stirred with the rest
not a very good receipe for love..........

The creation of a paranoid state of mind,

The doom talkers are dream stalkers
as we remain sleepwalkers.....
being fenced into security
caused by aggresive action

Beware of the wolf in lambs clothing.......

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The pillow queen stokes her empire
her quivering hand follows her letter
to all it may concern

cry in the dark
although she maybe strong,
made out of ploughshares
the sun still flickers

so much has gone already
and little is wept for
growing old
your strands of whitish hair
you may pray like a cygnet
but hopes are fenced 
...

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Promised a honey baked life by Uncle Sam,
a V.A. loan, and a mini-van.
Three kids and a fenced yard.
It should be attainable to those who
worked so hard.
They served, they sacrificed as mother's wept,
came home to be forgotten to a government
that's inept..
Our unsung hero's who fought gallantly, are
supposed to be our nations first priority.....

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The roads are clean and straight;
Lawns with no weeds.
The wild is locked and fenced;
The trash is in your pocket.
People park within lines;
Never mind arbitrary confines.
The crazy man in the hermitage
Still dwells there in another age.
In this need for order and work,
There's its own madness;
Of evens, odds, and edges,
A life is measured in wages....

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The cat goes to Reece Fair
But stays just outside
In the fenced off piece...
The noise is much too much
When the sirens scream.

He is looking through
The gaps in fence at fair:
Sees neon signs flashing FOOD
And teens in flashy hoods.
No place for a cat to be.





3/19/2015

Contest  - A Brian Strand STANDARD - No. 1212

Sponsor - Brian Strand

A Win...

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Home I have come,
Finally home,
This is where I have longed for,  
I have craved for this moment,
I have been held back these umpteen times,
Caged and fenced in,
I'm where I'd find peace,
My soul's resting place,
A new start this holds for me,
Hopeful about this,
Behind this door
 I'd change the tide,
Behind this door
 a new me will emerge.




May 14, 2022....

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Gods Backyard
David J Walker

Just outside my window 
A small piece of the natural world
Fenced in and cultivated to my taste
Such a waste 
	Such a waste
When I am not sitting in the middle
Of my creation 
	As a god on his thrown 
Resting on the 7th day
Evaluating what does 
	And does not
Belong
Which makes me think…
We are but a small piece
Of the heavens 
In Gods backyard...

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