Short Hedges Poems

in park like beauty
tidy hedges and prim blooms ~
elegant wildness...

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Lately, the hedges go unclipped
    as apples lay rotting on the ground...

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deer bunnies and bears
are among hedge shapes found there
parkland scenery...

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the country stile
hedges the wild flower meadow-
I sit awhile


NOTE-HI-KU is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku...

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From upon a ladder’s high ledges
It’s time to trim up the edges
Each critical slice
Makes topiary nice
And forms the most pleasing hedges...

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There is the wind that goes for a walk,
With his love, the breeze
Through hedges through clouds,
Playful dancing of the wind and breeze...

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Drunken fairies flutter by hedges,
Friesian heifers graze grass to the edges
Of fields where tufts of meadow grass grow,
Smothering weeds and roots below....

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If I could choose
a burial ground
I'd rather a field
of freshly mown grass
bordered by lavender hedges
of colour and perfume
and my headstone
a giant purple jacaranda
in full bloom....

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sijo    

Tolerance and empathy between people of opposite stance
could take a lesson or two from the English countryside.
There single hedges fuse the best of holly, hawthorn and yew.

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The winds shiver through mighty big hedges
Sweeps the mud back onto the earthy floor,
The trees withered in Autumn,
And bushes too
Grass grows as dry as hay, 
Orange leaves on the earthy floor...

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A somber dawn breaks upon a hillside 
     strewn with hedges of dew 
         drenched blackberries


Written 8/19/22
FIRST PLACE
Your Thoughts On Blackberries Contest
Sponsor:  Matt Caliri...

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Rain comes
Inviting the odour of mud
The wind, cool breezes
The clouds hide the fellow sun
The sky in the color of a dark shaded gray
The grass is wet
Birds hide in trees
Hedges shiver
August rainy day...

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Away, away, away  he bounds

through the hedges all around

Quick as lightning he flashes by

No-one can see him with the human eye

His coat is auburn

His chest is white

As he runs for away

In the deep moonlight....

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My head is growing light bulbs
the illuminance is very low
I ape the cries of crows
in their gilded cages
I am a coward to myself
vicariously living only half my life
climbing preverbal fences and hedges
I've never known my age...

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Midnight, black sky
Moon shines,
A bright light,
Shows the route back home

Mighty winds,
Make hedges dance
Crickets scream
Rivers, silent
Rodents sleep

Cold breezes,
Flower buds,
Shiver and then close
Resting for tomorrow...

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the country stile
hedges an old  meadow
I sit awhile

out of the blue
the honey bee
sings with delight

nearby in sunshine
a blackberry blossoms
winter's summer pudding

in the silence
my  thoughts plod the path
of yesteryear...

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to see hawthorn on the Summer hedges
bluebirds on the ledges of the low lying sill
 near the old cotton mill
bird song fills the air, chirping cheeping, caterpillars creeping.,
through the leaves of green 
glistening in the summer sun....

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seasons
of abrupt
            movement
and
appealing 
           beauty,
           proportion,
           structure-
no sentimentality
or
timidity..   
           symmetry
with
shapes

Found poetry 2+3 inspired by Hedges by Clare Leighton...

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Jack Frost had been darting around
Frost covered the hedges and ground.
Sly Frost crept and scrawled
And none knew Frost called;
Frost struck without making a sound.


05/01/19

'Same Word Winter Limerick Poetry Contest' : sponsored by Charles Messina...

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once 
   on Good Friday
they looked
       upon love,
at first 
          silence
a silence
        so black
        so dense,
then the sound..
a gentle
          wind-
after ..
  comes the dawn

Found poetry 8 inspired by Hedges prose of Clare Leighton...

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An abundant rural scene
Everywhere freshly green
Fields overladen with hay
Buttercups dot the meadow
Hedges white with may

See Grant Woods(1892-1942) Iowa rural scene paintings,especially Young corn & similar

http://www.crma.org/Content/Grant_Wood/Gallery.aspx...

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Oh, the scent
The tingling touch
Of unseen fingers on the air
Teasing instincts interest.

The essence of the feral
Laying lust upon the wind
Hope among the hedges
An unknowing provocateur

Fumbling with the dark art
Of pheromonal folly.


John G. Lawless
©10/25/2022...

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I drank bottles
of potent optimism,
trampling impatiens 
in the garden bed.

In love's labyrinth
I stumbled in the hedges,
emerging to disengorge
in a plaster fountain
under a starless sky.

I awoke a sloth
in morning's garish chasm,
the silent telephone blooming
like a black orchid....

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clear
waters
ripple down
like lace  finery-
circling hedges bathed by sprays of pearled mist

how waves' rhythmic symphony grants relief
as  gush of  calm
quells pained soul--
healing
me



For Eve Roper's Contest: Double Tetractys 3
Visual 1
checked via howmanyayllables.com
9/29/2020...

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Now, when the colours are blinding
The breeze bends around the hedges
Beneath the midsummer morning’s grace,
And plays with the fleecy clouds
Whose eager eye meets his gowned pride
To the rhythm of the thunder’s loud beats
And sets the deeply conscious drizzle free
To the ever graceful need of the soil...

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