Short Maize Poems

burning horizon-
Evening Star appearing,
as maize harvest dries...

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If we made a giant maze
In an Iowa field
Would it be a maize maze?...

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field maize
	ablaze

	popped corn
	is born

	new craze
	amaze...

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sun’s coat on the maize
here and there the squirrel ducks
leaving her to pant 



©GraceM Composition...

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harsh corn faced clown bird
speckled like iowa maize
struts his stuff

intrigued and open
admiring his glory
I applaud him...

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A woman who works shucking corn
Tells jokes that are Iowan born
Just lend her an ear
And you're bound to hear
How colonels can milk a French horn...

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I
Beans amaze for giving
As do marigolds, maize, corn
One seed uncoils worlds

II
How to think multiverse
Humans are - feelings fool us:
Seeds: one & many, past & future...

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Bean brew, onions, maize, garlic;
Baked sweet potato’s 
Sporting sugar, ginger coat.
Nice mango collage
And some spicy tea;
Fresh harvest
Bliss!

...

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The meaning of “love” can be defined many ways
Could mean: “eating” or “fishing” or downing some “maize”
So don't be fooled
Just play it cool
Ask her for a definition so you aren't led astray...

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The meaning of “love” can be defined in many ways
Could mean: “eating” or “fishing” or downing some “maize”
So don't be fooled
Just play it cool
Ask her for a definition so you aren't led astray...

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She came over on the Mayflower in 1620.
Learned Native American garden ways which were plenty.
Promptly put new animals out to graze,
Learned how to plant good-looking maize,
Luckily her soul was open, and her mind was twenty-twenty....

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The firmament above, beneath we exist,
This diversity in divine artistry
Same eyes divers sizes
Different skin same sin
Different color same honor
Same human same humor
Why try to sort out maize from corn? They are all same
Cus just one shot, your race wont spare you...

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Listen to the rain. It's wet but the sound sings.
You remember other rainy nights. 
The million gray drops
Were small horrified cries from a maize without walls.
You called a friend in a faraway place.
You took long hot showers to relax.
You felt new rain on your skin....

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Prisms through haze,

disguise tawny fields

with a vague stained glass glaze,

leaving many small suns 

circling the cornstalks

throughout the maize




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For Nette's Contest: "Veil" -- Poems of Compression
By Carrie Richards...

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Words fell through my mind
in plumber’s wrenches
you walked
through a room
my hands shook 
I kept pebbles in my pocket
to hold on to 

you
kicked at my desire
broad hoofed 
your head became
an Olmec icon
my fingers reached
reached for you
like skinny cobs 
of ancient maize...

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When spring comes, as the tide
Like maize in a pot, it's time to dance and hop 
The missing sun melts the snow, it will not be denied
It starts pretty quiet, with a little 'pop'
Green meadows and many delicious lamb chop





03/01/2020
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved...

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I was walking in the field
Maize leaves blinding my eyes
Star thorns pricking my feet;
My eyes settled on a small pumpkin,
It had not grown enough
To show the kind of pumpkin
It would make,
Or even the shades it would take;
I just left it there
Holding on to its withering mother.
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The crow rejoiced in the field today.
Husks were popped open with maize showing through.
Crop was up, smiling in her special way.
There was so much corn, what could a young crow do?
He held a hoe down, invited twenty-two.
They danced their claws off; they were heard in hell.
Enough corn to keep them through the winter spell....

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A warm maize glow 
greeted fluttering lids
as the first rays
of Sunday 
defined time.

There on the 
bedroom ceiling,
a vision and
the answer 
to life’s mysteries;
the universe
revealed.

Past childhood,
beyond adulthood,
and into golden days,
I realize all of life
is reduced 
to one 
exclusive
moment…

waking....

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You shiver my ora 
With brightness that skins 
your colors love
Excitement to write and fight
Betrayal and break ups 
I never dream of might
You fiddle and blush my dimples
Shorten my nights 
see the sun gaze upon your face
Like a maize runner 
I always scotch in your eyes
Like a w 
I always feel your love twice 

PS 
Yours Me...

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The cliffs up high
tell adobe tales
laced with maize
on hawk feather breezes.
Whispers of Jaguars
travel the mesquite,
are impaled on cacti needles.

The sight of the cat
knows the darkness,
protects the Gods.
It's said even the spots
on its fur are eyes;
they follow the warrior.
Spears cannot pierce its skin;
we sleep in peace....

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Left tall and dry, lies the pillared maize forsaken.
Barren fields of corn, stand row by row.
When yellow ears have long been gathered, 
a dusty crop has paid it's garnered due.
The dry stalks bend and dangle stiff remains,
and autumn winds return to whip batons and play.
The quiet fields tune harps and violins,
making harmony from husks, with swaying stalk refrains....

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I planted a seed in my garden
Tenderly nurtured for months
I saw a tiny bud yesterday
Today it opened into a rose
Silken petals of purest white,
in the center, scarlet like my heart.

We planted a seed in my garden
Tenderly nurtured for nine months
We saw a tiny bud six months ago
Today she became a rose
Silken hair of golden maize
She now owns our scarlet hearts....

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Autumn is a tapestry, in shades of red and maize!
The distant hills, breathtaking, in a lovely purple haze!

Trees and grass are dressed in green, a vision to behold.
Fields and meadows, overflow, with Autumns harvest gold!

A potpourri of natures beauty, scenes to be adored,
Mother Nature gets the credit, but the artist is, Our Lord!


Ralph Taylor
Contest: Autumns, Fall Colors
8/14/12...

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~indian summer~

indian summer
 apple crisp yawning first light ~
  amber moonrise nights

cozy mellow sunshine
 warm pumpkin spice afternoons ~
  yellow cornfields doze

sleepy vineyards dream
 reveries of maize and gold ~
  twilight lullabies 

drowsy fields of wheat
 harvest glows in pumpkin hues ~
  autumn’s balmy breath

9-15-21
Contest: Hello September
Sponsor: Mystic Rose Rose...

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