Short Gourds Poems

funny little gourds
slightly ugly and bumpy
— adopted by me

10/15/2018...

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you-tube
no poems written today
only conspiracy
watched with wide-eyed wonder
as goldfish swim away


Published - Spring 2016 - A Hundred Gourds...

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Down, creepers for gourds; Up, branches for olives...lo! an olive falls on my nose!


10/10/16
Funny one liner by Silent One
Judged 11/10/16 - Placed 8...

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I
mystery in seeds:
real to me, small, flat gourd seed
now, shoots at window smile

II
Flat white seed planted
a meter from window
three weeks: hi from window...

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I
recycling water
from sink to spinach, gourds, vines
bottled music, too

II
bubbling, gurgling sounds
strange calm, time stops -
ancient man smiles at spring...

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I
one seed, so wise
to hide generations of pumpkins
forest of leaves

II
wisdom in tendrils, leaves 
spread out - small garden -
blind tendrils grasp non-leaves...

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Group of creepy trees
All located within a grove
Each have glowing eyes
Who worship deadly pumpkins
Some evil grinning red gourds

Russell Sivey...

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                            Gourds turning from green
                         To Desert Tan hang from vines_
                               Next year Martin House...

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A butterfly
on a plastic rose...
how long
does it take to know
all that is fake



Published in A Hundred Gourds

kash poet (kashinath karmakar)...

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The gourd guardian loved his post.
Out of all the jobs, it suited him the most.
He did not like to brag or even a tiny bit boast,
But he was the best guardian at this post....

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School has started, the plaids are walking in place
We are cheering for our football teams
Loving mustard colored gourds and pumpkins
Autumn is loving her power as we decorate...

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I am sick of eating those huge orange gourds cooked in pies -
And my little garden is choc-a-bloc with pumpkins this year;
But when carved out, they are the talk of the whole neighbourhood.

For Andrea’s contest...

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Autumn sun was annoyed with the sunflowers today
She pretended she liked them, which was weirdly okay.
The gourds knew better, they could read the sun’s mind.
But the sun kept her opinions secret, being ever so kind....

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crisp leaves underfoot
deep purple bright red and gold
the glorious woods

an aged beauty
now the joy once my garden
as love lies bleeding

orange leaf shower
campfires scarecrows and hued gourds
brisk refreshing air...

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October ushers in autumn like no other month
when we see many mature fresh pumpkins, gourds, 
pomegranates, ripe dates, grapes, cranberry, yam.
in southern hemisphere, south of the Equator,
interesting to know mid October is mid spring season...

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spring has sprung
outside activities
splashing puddles

summer magic
geraniums sit pretty
spider crawls away

autumn harvest
pumpkins, gourds and Halloween
dazzling webs catch flies

winter frost
animals fight to survive
where is spider...

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Talk aloud
To the air
To a ghost
No one
Listens
A breath
A moment
A minute
To be heard

All the time
People nod
Like they know
But empty
Like gourds
Are the depths
Of the words

Long ago
You stopped
Telling 
Teaching
Speaking
Yelling
But they
Still nod
Never noticing
Your silence...

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I was wrapped in autumn's embrace ~ as she shed her withered leaves of lace

her gown was crimson and gold ~ autumn's reverie in meadow and wold*

she travels upon windswept chords ~ in apple orchards and fields of gourds

autumn nights beneath a harvest moon ~ I hear haunting calls of a loon



*hilly region...

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Noisy children
singing and clapping

Playful children
jumping and splashing

Quarrelsome children
arguing and fighting

When will their gourds be full?
So they can sit them on their heads
So one of them can take a step
So others can follow suit
So all of them will be gone
that I may be all by myself.

Here....

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Good-gesture greenthumb gatherers gleaned grain,
gargantuan granary,
grower's great goodwill greeting,
gazillion grade-schoolers, grownups,
gingham-garbed grandmother's,
grievous growling guts gone,
gain gastronomical goodies gardens,
grapes, granola, gourds, gosh!
generosity galore, golly, gobsmacked!
golden godsend...

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The palms, the peas, the protea too
Showing up the lilies and iris ever blue.
The gourds and the daisies growing so fine.
Nothing outshines fungi which walks a clear cut line.
Tens of thousands of plant species
Growing more readily with help of feces.
From bulbs or seeds, makes no diff,
Cover the ground in a giant jiff....

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If every month’s a color
Then October has to be
The same orange as a pumpkin
And I think we’d all agree.

For as fall, in its ascendance,
Turns the leaves and ripens gourds,
Golds and oranges and ochres
Are the notes of autumn’s chords.

So I welcome Ms. October
Gussied up in tangerine,
Bringing just enough of chilly days
To supersede the green....

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They look like little pumpkins,
Cute and orange, with a stem,
Or else like tiny long-necked squash;
The stores sell lots of them.

They serve as decorations
As they brighten homes for fall,
A counterpart to jack-o-lanterns,
Faceless, though, and small.

However, I do wonder
Why they’ve gotten so maligned
For when someone’s out of someone’s gourd,
It means he’s lost his mind!...

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Those breasts are a granary of life
they are silos for the thin times
they are feeding gourds for the fragile
there are vitamins in them
there are proteins in them
there are starchy foods in them	
there are fats in them
there is rough-age on them
there is water of life in them
there are all minerals in them
those who carry them
those whose use them
must do so with holiness
and dignity...

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RICH HARVEST,  LONG WINTER  - ALOUETTE



Summer’s green near shut  -
Held ajar by glut. 
Overgenerous rewards
On the groaning ground  -
Spilling o’er with round,
Bursting butter-beans in gourds.

Now is winter’s brown  -
The piled logs run down.
Drifting dead, the months prolong,
Freeze all thought of yields :
Cold minds whiten fields.
Till springs door open   -  too long.



2nd  September   2014...

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