Short Overgrown Poems

overgrown beauty
prairies wild rose bushes
delighting no one...

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raven-smudged sky
a lone cricket chirp in
overgrown garden
...

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poisoned bite evades

dividing overgrown blades

creek’s water cascades...

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     ~ wild flowers - active reproduction and spread - the yard is overgrown ~...

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the swamp
overgrown wet wild sticky...
mosquitoes rule night...

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big woods lost human
tiny footprints disappear
overgrown brush piles

April 6, 2023...

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‘ One Rose ’  Haiku # 13

     One Rose, On The Path
Of Overgrown Weeds and Rocks
… That Is How Hope Laugh...

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Sunbeams stream through out
Forest overgrown and dark 
Ascending high heights

Entered into "Ascension" Contest...

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She didn’t wax her furry legs
And didn’t shave her armpit hair.
Bikini line so overgrown;
She had a forest growing there....

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neighbor's lawn overgrown
with thick grass and wild flowers
wife had a baby









[written and posted 6/27/21]...

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Schizophrenia

Festering innards
Valley overgrown with shards
Fragments oozing soul

Date Nov 24 2016
Contest  The fault Line...

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Time has passed to quick
Weeds do grow where flowers were
Nourished by nature

Abandoned houses falling in ruins
Behind rusty overgrown fences...

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I'm not quite up to snuff,
should the wind give me a puff
I'd simply fall over
like a worn-out clover
that's lost its own shadow
in an overgrown meadow...

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Upright
Overgrown tree
Full with shadows
Still longing for the sun
Looking for the glowing orb
Needing warmth

Russell Sivey

A Vignette...

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grandparent's farmland
passed down through generations
apple peach trees grow

overgrown pathways
barb wire fence contains thorned bush
wild berries florish...

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Hedge

Nature won't be tamed
His hedge grows tall, needs cutting
My view is softened






5-7-5 syllables checked with howmanysyllables.com

25 June 2022...

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Darkness falls in the habitat
an secret acre overgrown
lush from furious rain the darkness
gathers
and sparks fly up from the underbrush
floating
to the treetops...

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their garden of dreams

     neglected and overgrown ~

          now teeming with weeds




Date written: 12/07/2020...

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why the media plays up some...
overgrown spoiled rich kid
as suitable for president
when an experienced
mature elder is the
better man...

t'is beyond me....


stan sand...

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my lilac tree did not know she was a bush
within ten years she flourished with a swoosh
she outgrew every tree except the oak giant
lilac tree is a hundred foot tall, shade very reliant....

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neglected fruit trees 
moss covers old water trough 
ivy climbs through fence



*My grandfather was always outside cleaning the brush away and now that he's passed it's just left undone.*...

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Overgrown by grapes
Gods’ garden fine winery
Mortals in rags toil

Overgrown by grapes
Gods’ garden fine winery
Brimful gilded grails

Overgrown by grapes
Gods’ garden fine winery
High angels crash down...

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granite headstone, proof of existence
fresh flowers and stones marked visits
overgrown weeds, unread engraving
no flowers, no stones 
abandoned memory
sun warms cold headstone


BiteSize Poem No 29...

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An expressive place
A dark forest late at night
Just a torch to see
The path badly overgrown
Looks hopeless yet is calming

Entrant into Black Eyed Susan's "Tanka" contest

12/8/2012...

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An overgrown garden,
all stone arches & shadow
A place where disrepair becomes aesthetic
Through tangled vines,
a lone flower reaches for sunlight,
she is learning;
There's more than one way to blossom...

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