Short Hoeing Poems

King
Haughty,royal
Ruling, gloating,dining
Gold,mansion,clay,straw
Sowing,hoeing,starving
Humble, ragged
Peasant


6-16-19...

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Far too many of these absentee fathers believe that they can plant a seed and harvest 
a decent crop (child) without ever hoeing a row or pulling a weed (having any 
involvement in their lives)....

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Memories Lost


past entangled snares
heavy laden under mire
lurk memories lost

deeply seeded held
cleverly hidden in mist
are memories lost

heaving  hoeing
ebbing flowing never showing
all memories lost

~deborah burch©
4/28/2012...

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AN EASY LIFE

Knowing not a lot about
Growing things from seed, 
Sowing in the proper places,
Hoeing out the weeds

Sought alternative solutions,
Thought I’d scrap the flower bed.
Ought to make my life far simpler.
Bought a patio instead.

17th June 2021
Lento eight lines contest
Sponsor - Joseph May...

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No longer snowing
The sun is glowing
The rains ongoing
Daffodils growing
Crows crowing
Winds blowing
Rivers overflowing
Children helloing
Frisbee throwing
Much more outgoing
Farmers ready for sowing
Gardeners hoeing
Neighbors easygoing
All soon will be lawn mowing



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 8, 2018...

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i suck
a drop
of honey
from your
honey
suckle
flower

not
taking
a bite
but a bit
nibbling
on your
catnip

i'm
hard
a tree
barking
bark a
dog
wood

i arose
aroused
she was
yellow
she was
thorny
a rose

then i
kissed
her two
lips and
then the
other
tulips

planting
my kisses
hoeing
around
we'd be
the
we...

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Thunder in the morning I complain  
Summer's even  
Hoeing in the rain I soon quit the field. . .

Freedom,

The spring at the one tree

From which we drank

Sweat pouring off us

In the grasshopper blur of Midsummer

The lightning dances in my eyes

The thunder rattles in my ears,

O Great Spirit
To be,to be
Freefalling and free...

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Wretched thrives going at rapid speeds
Spreading lines like ill manic seeds
Fanatic flowers attacking whack salad weeds 
Hoeing each line with a cocaine breeze 

I sneeze and tease these cursive lines with ease
Herbs dipped in asinine with the blue cheese
Cheddar mixed with ketamine, fed my epiphany if any. 
Thoughts ready to go steady. Aim fire bang goes the confetti....

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glorious day calls
donning summer's broad-brimmed hat
for LOVE of sunshine

locate garden shoes
unworn since last november
garden work my FUN
laggard spring was late and cold
urgent..seeding must get done

dig them up and put them in
setting sets in ..seeding seeds
hoeing, raking, composting
POETRY alive


Won a 5th with this
By: Joyce Johnson for Linda's contest "Fun & Frolic"  (3 forms)...

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A farmers works not easy
It’s a hard and lonely life
I never gets to town much 
So its hard to find a wife
I’m up at dawn most every morn
A milking and a feeding
Then afternoons I’m in the fields
A hoeing and a weeding
So when the sun goes down at night
The working day be done 
I’ll go down to the sheep pen
Just to pick a pretty one
They sees me in my wellies
And they all begin to bleat
They know that I am there to give
Some special girl a treat...

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While weeding in my vegetable garden,
I took a needed break, from my hoeing.
I gazed along the creek over the glen,
a pride of tiger lilies opening.

It appeared to me an exposition,
a thousand deep, emerging on parade.
Row on row and column after column,
in full regalia, a marching brigade.

A brilliant orange with narrow spots of brown,
on each top hat, a yellow pollen crown.
Shoulder to shoulder in closed rank column,
marching, marching in ornamental plume....

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