Short Shovels Poems

apples spin volcano shovels
ice eyes golden homeless man
toad sweet twigs...

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The shovels scraping
Filling big pothole in street
My four brand new tires...

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softly snowflakes gather   around idle shovels


John G. Lawless
1/16/2018...

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Sparks flew
The earth moved
And I knew

Your love was going to bury me



March 2nd, 2019...

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sandcastles built by

     small hands with pails and shovels

    ...... the tide is the foe...

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long shadows creep
as growling winds howl
silent shovels tremble

John G. Lawless
©1/26/2022...

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Shovels of Sand
                  A drip castle display
           A small splash and dream wrecks....

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Haiku 1/6/2018

a wintery battle
lone warriors creep forward
shovels counting coup


John G. Lawless
©1/6/2018...

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Baseball is on my mind more,
When frigid winds freeze to the core,
Opening day,
Seems eons away,
Snow shovels strike out, wood bats score!...

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   Our playgrounds have faded
     swings stilled, sandboxes unfilled

   Where are the shovels and pails ~
     replaced by profits and sales
...

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As wintery mix seeps in
Snow shovels starts to move again
Snow causes slips and falls
Tossing you against the walls
While making your body tail-spin...

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I felt a funeral, in my brain
Somber people gathered
All in black
So many tears
The TRUTH revealed
People DID Care!!
Shovels of dirt cover me 
It's raining soil on my casket.

©SamHarty...

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I felt a funeral, in my brain
Somber people gathered
All in black
So many tears
The TRUTH revealed
People DID Care!!
Shovels of dirt cover me 
It's raining soil on my casket

©Sam Harty
...

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Bleak
Gray day,
Biting breeze
Offers portent
And tumbles autumn’s harvest of sere leaves
To winter’s foreboding, icebound doorstep:
Stacked, stands cordwood,
Shovels wait,
First snow
Looms....

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cliff erosion hurtling down kids play unaware - frantic shovels dig


Written 3rd March 2019
Contest Name: A SCRAPING OF SHOVELS 
Sponsor: John Lawless


Contest: Week 3 March 19 
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Listen to poem:

When shovels scrape
and make screeches 
like fingernail grates 
on blackboards,
you know the job
is almost done.
As shovels designed to scoop,
when flipped over and made to rake,
shriek their embarrassment....

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Jose's in the snow
Oh don't you know
He shovels it out
But it still comes back down
So he builds snow angels
To stave off the danger
To keep himself sane
And get through the game!

Written for a friend - 02/01/21 - 11:30 AM...

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cars sound the alarm
autumn delivers it's storm
night time is shattered

window faces watch
our world of broken branches
wheelie-bins gone rogue

when tomorrow comes
boys will collect their conkers
grown men their shovels 
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cold city streets
ice crystals joining hands
slap shots on pavement


winter’s whiskey
nips in a snow storm
staggering snow men


shovels at rest
tea cups warm winter’s hands
puddles on the floor

John G. Lawless
©2/7/2022...

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Break out the shovels
They say that rhyming's dead
Let's plant one end in the ground
And through dirt on its head

But, before you do, remember
The classics that you knew
Rewrite them in a different form
Let's see what you can do...

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the gravediggers crest
two crossed scraping shovels
lifelong employment

they dig a large hole
occupant won’t see their work
yet pays final bill

Contest sponsor John Lawler
A Scraping of Shovels Poetry Contest


3/12/19...

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It’s cold
It snowed
I shivered
I shoveled
A Solstice sun
Silently smirked
Iridescent icicles
Licked their lips
A crunch of crusted snow
Battled the scritch of shovels
Headless snowmen
Wandered in wonder
I shoveled
I shivered
It snowed
It’s cold
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Today I hear a clear sound coming forth
A scraping of shovels digging my grave
I abandon my quest to save this Earth -
One tear falls - it was never mine to save



Taken From: A Scraping of Shovels
2-27-19
Contest: A Scraping of Shovels
Sponsor: John Lawless...

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ad nauseum of
blizzard-snow upon snowmen —
frostbitten shovels

2/11/2021

* snowbirds - Those who live in extreme snowy conditions
in the Northern U.S. that fly to Florida where it is much warmer.
During pandemic many have to endure the circumstances....

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Just a thought for fans of Kdash,

K was outed by Dog named Snoop.

Video jus called her garden tool trash,

alerting brothers, he shovels the poop!


For the Chastushka contest. 

Hardly political but Snoop really reflected upon the “culture” of K.

Props to Snoop Dog!...

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