Short Shrubbery Poems

grass taller
than the shrubbery
an empty house...

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early sunlight
peaks through shrubbery
front yard veiled...

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I'm coming says rain
Thirsty shrubbery restless
Overwhelmed I’m lost
______________________________
May 10/2017...

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Daring yellow, orange, and gold;
Bursting from autumnal shrubbery;
Opulent purple and burgundy red;
Riches that fill my palette of treasury;
And I revel till my white canvas days.


9/2/14...

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tabby cat, eyes glow
moving in garden shrubbery
hunting, pausing

alert to movement
within shadowed places
soft purr erupting

pounce and miss
joyful moment, hunt is fun
now a nap for her...

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My philosophy, “tell it like it is” what needs to be said
No beating around the shrubbery or the outcome you'll dread
Look at me, honest as they come
Bumble along, thumb up my bum
Cept when I'm hitchhiking, need it for a lift instead...

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soundproof glass houses
surrounded by svelte deer
their only hiding place
amid roaring mechanical monsters
they graze on the green elastic shrubbery
and chew the somber apples off the ground.
Soon a blanket of white dust
and the impression is lost,
the impression of nature....

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A squirrel with an acorn clenched
Between his tiny teeth
Ran past me to some shrubbery
And hid himself beneath.

He looked so cute it made me think
Suppose he was a rat;
I wouldn’t like it half as much
In nearby habitat.

Though both are rodents, in this case
Some prejudice prevails,
For charming or repellent seems
To rest upon their tails!...

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Bumpy Loop and Loopy Bump,
Jumped off a speeding train,
But both were rather fortunate,
And lived to jump again.

Bumpy Loop just bounced and bounced,
For he was round and rubbery,
Loopy Bump went flying down,
And crushed into a shrubbery. 

The speeding train kept rolling on,
And sprinted out of sight,
Now Bumpy Loop and Loopy Bump,
Are stuck there in the night....

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Happy Earth Day, PS...


How the majestic spectacle of Nature is revealed
At the end of a dull and gloomy day
When the bullying, storm-foreboding clouds give way
And allow the struggling, setting sun to gild, and flush,
And glorify this tiny expanse of rocks and shrubbery
With an awesome pomp and circumstance of color,
And cast a mesmerizing spell that holds the eye,
And caresses and stirs the spirit like martial music....

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Beneath the darkening of clouds, dusk creeps,
touching the horizon of a placid periwinkle sea.
Blue waters caress a craggy shore as light
drenches earth's floor - a wilderness -
with utter brilliance.
Crimson, persimmon and vibrant green shrubbery
shine beneath the sky 
as sun surrenders to its twilight fate.
Before sun sets, I bathe 
in the beauty I behold.

Dec. 27, 2018 for Vermillion Scythe's
 Word Vision Poetry Iv Poetry Contest...

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Take your time
And count it down
Nothing's going to change right now
The stones were set years before
You laid them down, you chose the floor,
And now the path only bends when it needs to flee
the weeds the worms the shrubbery

So take your time 
Stop for air
Yes, quick steps will get you there
but at the end of the path-the win is short
And tired feet is all you've got

So ease your pace and smell the air,
A free mind can take you anywhere....

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