Short Garden Path Poems

HAIKU 

Nuts in May, Adam
Led Eve down the garden path,
Always blame women!...

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fluffy snow abound
covering my garden path
grass and weeds asleep
awaiting springs arrival...

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shadows of three leaves
on the starlit garden path
stars in your whispers

October 9, 2023...

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on the garden path
five toes and a pad
imprint the snow-
hunger brings a 
stranger in the night...

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on the garden path
five toes and a pad
imprint the snow-
hunger brings a 
stranger in the night...

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I brush a tall primrose in early bloom
On the evening breeze a yellow perfume

An American Doublet...

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Between  white daisies on which footsteps pass
Dandelions dancing upon the grass.

American doublet form...

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a birthday party

balloons pave the way

up the garden path

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1/24/2016...

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dew crafts
crown on grass
gold flakes fall with leaves
fire furrow paves garden path
gilded trees adorn autumn’s spectral splendor
 
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Dating

Apparently the front yard garden path is 
dating the north streetlight. The streetlight has 
too much knowledge about 
new tide information.
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Dew crafts crown on grass,
rustling leaves make gold flakes fall,
flushed garden path gleams.
Adorning autumn splendor
tinged trees hear winter’s call clear.
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what truly binds us -
a million points of light flow, 
breathless milky way

Brian Johnston
April 3,2016
Inspired by Josie Hibbing on Face Book's 'Japanese Poetry Garden Path.'...

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fall rain soaks rock flaws
early winter brings hard freeze
boulder’s heart exposed

Brian Johnston
April 9, 2016
Inspired by Pat Geyer in FaceBook's "Japanese Poetry Garden Path"...

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bee eye fantasy
seeing you a thousand times
every moment

Brian Johnston
April 10, 2016

Inspired by conversation with Caroline Cecile on FaceBook's 'Japanese Poetry Garden Path'...

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freshly prepped garden -
affection I left behind
crumbling embers

Brian Johnston
April 2,2016

Poet's Notes: 
Inspired by Erasmus Bock on FaceBook's Japanese Poetry Garden Path...

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grey day's antidote
cold beer muted telly ad
rain sound on the roof

Brian Johnston
April 8, 2016

Poet’s Note:
Inspired by Erasmus Bock on Facebook's Japanese Poetry Garden Path...

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ancient bubble's gift
amber trapped mosquito's head
breathes scent of wild rose

Long Tooth
June 20, 2016

Poet's Notes:
Inspired by Mike Duffy on FB's Japanese Poetry Garden Path!...

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among the ruins
iguana carved from bed rock
weathers in the sun

Brian Johnston
April 5,2016

Poet's Notes: 
Inspired by a haiku by Amy Losak on Face Book's Japanese Poetry Garden Path...

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sparrow's song floating
cloud burst drowns our connection
lips too lose their purse

Brian Johnston
April 27, 2016

Inspired by Caroline Cecile on FaceBook's Japanese Poetry Garden Path....

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i paved blooming garden path to walk with you… flowers wilted waiting

August 26, 2020
Syllable count : 17
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : When Plans Dont Go To Plan
Sponsor : Silent One...

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Red wines I drink make my cold blood hot red
Flames flow turning neurons wild in my head
Tongue slithers to utter a word
Legs morph into wings of blind bird
Hazy garden path on cloud nine I tread.

November 6, 2017....

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flower, garden, green, growth, nature, rain, word play,



Orange and yellow crowns
A top of long leafy stems
Blight the garden path!



Marigold's bright blooms
Pepper the air with fragrances
Just after rain fall!...

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Intention of action…
inaction pursues

Deflecting commitment,
with roadblocks infused

Intention of action…
step one and step three

Step two is the question
—of what comes to be

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Like a garden path,
Life has many turns
Bringing forth new beginnings
And new friends
We hold on lovingly
To old ones,
Like the sweet jasmine on the walls.
Renewing boarders with flowers,
Scents and colours,
The joy of which we are yet to know....

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dew pearls crown beige grass
fawn meadow glows dawn’s luster…
Monet canvas sprawled

gilded leaves rustle
fall floating from tawny trees…
garden path on fire

on the blue hills far
silver tinged drifting clouds dance…
autumn charms my muse
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