Short Holland Poems

Windmills in Holland
Round and round nowhere to go
As well as tulips...

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Recife... its mirror... Venice,
its atavism... Holland...and,
its haughtiness of a King......

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Traveled to Holland
Endless varieties of
Tulips everywhere....

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windmill proud erect
between blankets of tulips
beauty laid for miles

arial view seen
like stripes across a flag
eye candy to reap...

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fragrance of tulips
bring holland to her senses
pretty dutch petals

pointed wooden shoes
clogging down the avenue
dancing with the dutch...

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Like Egypt without Nile,
like Holland without dyke,
like army without ammo,
like birds without wings,
is our world bereft of
brotherly love....

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Life unberable is created..
Proffered Then death by needle
Great effort Enjoined to sanitize
Waste of human rescources
Before our western walls !...

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There was a young thin cow of Holland
She would love to laze around on hot sand
Eating grass was well past
She wanted to have a blast
By munching organic fruits freshly canned...

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From Holland came Heronymous Bosch
with intricate detail never at a loss
Painting the greatest fantasy ever*
his imagery oh so clever

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch...

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It is warmer

In Paris 
They talk about
The weather
Eat frugally 
Hamburgers made of 
Indian cows
Turnips from Sweden 
Potatoes
From Holland 
Gobbledegook
And sign on
The dotted line....

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Holland is the flower capital of the world
Amazing multi-color fields send my mind in a whirl
Roses go on forever
Nine billion treasures
Day after day they send our minds in a swirl...

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I. April 6, 2022

Cows, fowl on road
Not by will, with pigs - business -
Of life and death

II April 6, 1652
From Holland, van Riebeeck
Europe's willing men, to Good Hope
Good, bad, near Robben Island...

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Phyllis Upman was a young maid
When she learnt the rules of her trade:
Show men what they want
Behave nonchalant
And be sure to pull down the shade! 

n.b.  Window shopping in 
Amsterdam is a more popular
tourist attraction than tulips ...

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Going on Holland America Cruise on
Oosterdam. It leaved out of Ft. Lauderdale
on 16 October and returns on 26 October.
It will be going to Eastern Caribbean. 
Will not have access to internet so
will not be entering any poems
into Poetry Soup. Keep writing poems.
Jim Horn...

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White
petals
rise
above
flames of gold
blazoned
with
a red
maple leaf.
Holland designed
this tulip
around
the
flag of
Canada,
truly
a
unique
bloom.


(Waltz Wave)


6/09/2021


Waltz Wave Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman...

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Spring came late that year
As I looked for love
I searched in England
And in Mexico
Even in old France

Maybe Holland
Or Germany
Shanghai perhaps
Or in Russia

Then it came
Why so far
Look nearby

Next door
I found

Her



3-26-19
Contest:Diminished Hexaverse About Spring
Sponsor:Caren Krutsinger...

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Was fullness thereof
That is in Jesus's love
Sent from up above.

Wanted from the start
Now I have God in my heart
We will never part.

Thankful yes am I
That for me Jesus did die
See Him by and by

Back from cruise to Southern Caribbean
on Holland American Oosterdam.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet...

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Holland’s glorious tulips amid windmills
Enticing the best nutrients from her gown,
Arriving two months after the daffodils,
Gorgeous colorful tulips do take her crown.
Parade of these beautiful flowers gives me chills.
Nature never lets anything slow her down.



Written April 23, 2020
Contest: Each Letter Threads the Verse Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Perfect Excuse

We finally found a perfect excuse
50th anniversary and going on a cruise
On Holland America well known
For being a place we call our own
No longer ourselves will we abuse.

Leaving this morning for two weeks
See lovely beaches and tall peaks
Best views that we ever had
And going on we are very glad
Seagulls sang songs through their beaks.

Jim Horn...

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Brewed in Holland

Ah the land of Orange 
In the land where the blond daises
Drinking in heat waves,
Sharing smiles and holding hands,
Rescuing black, dirty hearts
And then they fall apart and only pity kisses
Hold them together.
Love is brewed
And love is drunk,
In love together,
Whatever there is together
And kisses each other,
Only to kiss at Death’s feet
In those later years....

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Hans tried this save as a tike -
Episodic finger in the Holland-days dike.
Not afraid to swim.
See-through stranger didn’t spook him.

Friendly Casper scared the boo out of all, 
Spared the scaredy-cats with a window y’all.
They see through the glass magnified fishes.
The aquarium, a dutch treat for all their wishes.

8/30/2021
not for contest

Casper the Friendly Ghost episode: Dutch Treat...

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Jayne in a Man’s Field

I wrote on a Porsche “Take the Jayne Train”
How long in the mess hall would she remain
She came out and saw
She smiled, I said duh
Took a photo with her less my brain

Name Dropper Limerick Contest
Sponsored by Kevin Shaw September 19, 2017

*I actually took a photo with Jayne Mansfield
at an airbase in Holland when she was doing a touring promotion back in ’58. Lovely lady!...

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They were snowy white with streaks of hot flesh
From Holland, of course, hybrids with a fancy name
We other tulips felt plain and boring next to them
Where were they being planted? I stretched to see.

Sighing in relief when I saw they were in the next bed.
It was bad enough I had to share with the morning glories.
And the tiger lilies and the bleeding hearts.
I did not need any more serious competition...

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There once was a man from Holland
who waved so much he broke his hand
for he was popular in his land
so on his hand he wears a band
to greet his fans in Holland land .

      Copyright McCuen 2008





There once was a man from Holland Land.
who waved so much he broke his own hand
all 'cause he loved this land;
placed a band on his hand, 
to greet his fans in Holland land!

Copyright McCuen 2009...

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Hard cheese for the E U
The Dutch, have tractored through'
A sea change election from 
A farm conscious; direction
Theres now a great party
Grounded in sanity looking in clarity
Holland may longer sinking? from
Great green waste bills a'stinking
Reality astounding could well 
Counter such drowning, which illegal
And immoral brings division and quarrel
Heads up now Holland.' May brighter
Prospects soon follow; on.'...

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