Short Thistle Poems

broken bristle branch
robin tock
thistle fog fleck...

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sweet shy orange lily
hiding behind a thistle
soundlessly watches...

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A Twining Thistle
Ponders Beneath the willow
Catching Falling Leaves...

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Purple thistle sunflower
Bees dipping and gathering 
Perfect summer’s day...

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Thistle, growing weak
I wish to see what makes you,
Dance with perfection....

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who needs weeds or love
star-thistle or a young wife?
the man strives with both...

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spiny Mediterranean artichoke
thistle of the Asteraeae family
a wild vegetable
found in Greece...

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fields of buttercups
thistle and daisies
   the well gone bone dry



posted on June 9, 2018...

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the rose the thistle
the thorn the perfumed flower
the sword and the pen

© Harry J Horsman 2017...

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I found me self in a pickle
When I sat on a thistle
The pricks went in 
I started to scream
They lied, they said it would tickle...

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weaver’s 
spindle fulls the cloth
teasel



Note: Scottish thistles were once used by weavers as spindles....

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God never promised you and I Eden –
Only thistles, but even a thistle
Will grow tall in shaft and be edible.
Was that not sufficient for Adam?...

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A song trickles from the thicket...
bouncing off the cowlicked grass.
It tilts its beak toward my whistle...
re-branding the day 
"Bull thistle magic".
...

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Educated Br Reading Each Epistle

Were educated reading each epistle;
Jesus was stuck with every thistle;
Crucified;
Died;
Wind would sound like a whistle.

Jim Horn...

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Everything in my yard can grow
Except a thistle
Because of their mean thorns

I put on gloves and eradicate them
I have stepped on these thorns
And I do not plan to again....

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Dug up a thistle today
Planted a rose I hope will stay

Giving color and perfumed scent
Making life become a mint

Of happiness, joy, and beauty
To fill our life and make enjoying our duty...

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Desperate wisps of love,
  floating through the air.
Like thistle seeds,
  waiting to land.
 sowing a new meadow
 in the hearts of all
Hours upon years, 
 waiting for _____.( enter your love here)...

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Upon his saving grace I bred,
Who bought my pains with the tears he shed;
In tears and torment of thorns and thistle
He wept and died in a cursed, cruel castle
Where he bought my pardon with his blood...

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Upon his saving grace I bred,
Who bought my pains with the tears he shed;
In tears and torment of thorns and thistle
He wept and died in a cursed, cruel castle
Where he bought my pardon with his blood...

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As thin as a thistle Santa  in chimney  got stuck
In  the passage heavily blocked by years of  muck
struggling through the  soot
Santa fell down like a coot
And came out looking like a dark fancy duck....

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Thistle's when i'm prickly down
Upon your silky pappus.
Ither on over
Your showy
Purple flower head.
Onorpordum Acanthium
Is where i quencheth
On the pointed end
Of a prickspur
Not knowing the time....

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the Scottish thistle
strong , tenacious, beautiful
just like my mother




~~~~~~~~~
02/01/2020
this was written to be a tattoo. 
to compliment my thistle tattoo I 
had done when my mother passed away...

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I’ve got a penny whistle
I made it out of tin
I wander through the thistle
And traipse across the glen
A tune for bonnie lassie
On this wee flute I built
Soon as I get untangled
From the briars in my kilt...

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Things are not like they used to be
way back when.
We are not as young and spry as
we were then,
and the Golden Rod looks paler
than when
we blew thistle down, in the field
as children. 

© cghjr Sept 17 2012...

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Here lies pretty Martha Anne McBanes
She never sang verses, only refrains
While attempting to whistle,
Pricked her chin on a thistle
And died of an infection in her brain.

written March 3, 2022...

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