Short Thoreau Poems

Henry David Thoreau
Spent two years in a one room chateau 
Went to the pond to dip his booty
No dice – lifeguards off-duty...

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Frost and Thoreau were going for a walk.
Frost said I can make a poem from a sock.
Thoreau laughed hard
At this braggish bard
Published a poem from this crazy small talk....

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Upon my fence alit a pretty sparrow
Her stay was brief, and yet I felt more noble
Than if the visit were of king or pharaoh


(inspired by writings of Henry David Thoreau)...

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D Thoreau 'INDEPENDENCE'

           __________
one   /    ___          /|  one
       /_________
man| BALLOT     |    vote
      |  BOX         |
      |                 |...

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poetic mouse channeled Coleridge
no one noticed
he channeled Poe
Ravens roosted next to his missive
unfortunately,
his muse Thoreau
would not let him
beat them off with a broom...

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He lived in his own way with his own rule book
Thoreau needed only a bit of paper and a sharp pen
We admired his woods, his violets, his bubbly brook
Moving me to the country? Please tell me when....

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Apples red, apples round.

Apples frozen on the ground.

Yellow-mellow apples,

many speckled, bruised and brown.

Henry ate them

when he went wooding.

Said they tasted like apple pudding....

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An inkwell cupcake if you please.
Frost it with adverbs.
Sprinkle it with adjectives.
Don’t be stingy.
You can add more.
Make it glitter.
Make it pop!
Startle yourself.
Bake it whatever degree
Coleridge, Whitman, Thoreau and Poe would have used....

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Alone In the forest late one night,
Moon shadows grace the glistening snow.
The contrast and shapes are an awesome sight.
What a warm feeling… seeing the soft glow,
Now I understand Solitude Henry David Thoreau.


By: Greg Stanley
Submitted to the:
“FOURS AND FIVES” Contest
Sponsored by:  Brian Strand...

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Suburban Pastorale

(I walk in nature still alone. Thoreau)

Among purchased trees
he seeks repose
and bruised 
by civic alienation
forgets that Eden's cleft
has led to all that's made.
But surely he knows
Man and Nature
bound only by cultivation
are not the same.
For he, like most,
prefers his nature tame....

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I’ve forever written 
  as myself

Few influences will 
  show

Neither Hemingway nor 
  Faulkner

 Not Melville or 
  Thoreau

But as one who saw through 
  all of that

With so much more
  to know

 I search the land
   and stars above

For ink
  —my pen to flow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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Gone is the era of the Renaissance Man
Who delved into Milton, Voltaire and Rosseau
Knew the difference between Cezanne and Gaugin
Could parse a sentence and quote Henry Thoreau

Came Woodstock, he was buried deep in time's sands
Covered over by Joplin and Country Joe...
Social media's dug man's hole even worse
Alexa and Cortana ~ My lips are pursed...

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I am the product of Rumi's advice to Emerson and Thoreau,

telling them to consolidate the spirit of compassion and truth in America

wisdom of Persians, layers of Judeo-Christian foundation, civilizing the most barbaric at 

     the heart of the world

America is finally hearing of Rumi's love through Emerson

and is struggling, on many different levels, to fill the cup of love....

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what do you really want?
I stared at my husband.
He is way too good to me.

Maybe a cabin in the woods?
Like Thoreau’s cabin?
Exactly!

Let’s build it!
So we did.
A place to sit and think

To be silent
to listen to the trill of the birds
internet did not work well there

I did not have a computer there
I ran back into the house pretty quickly
but it makes a pretty gardening shed...

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Nature is a greater and more perfect art
These words of Thoreau
Are as befitting and sweet as a raspberry tart

Amoeba to Arctic
Nature is God’s dearest creation
Colours, shapes, sizes all fabulous
Humans can stand still &pour appreciation
Nature is a blessing and to pinch it is ridiculous

Preserve Nature, reap showers in
Clean Air, cool water,
Warm fire, clean sky
And a green earth
A perfect place to live in...

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Day-161 “My Undraped Lover” 

Around your heart there shines a light
Illuminating the love hidden inside

Around your face there shines a light
Illuminating the smile that sits upon

Once painted by Michelangelo
Often scripted by Thoreau 

The aura of your artistry 
The beauty of your soul

Angelic your innocence
Purity your virginity 

Your Halo I adore
Let me feast upon you more 

							Lon 11/23/2020 # 260...

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May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.

Today I’m thankful when in the forest wherever I may go 
how I’m reminded of the words of Henry David Thoreau

In the forest from out of nowhere his words come to me with ease
“When I take a walk into the woods,”he said,
I come out taller than the trees.”...

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Did you flavor it with Hemingway,
or season it with Thoreau

Did you structure it like Eliot,
or was Melville more your go

The rocks you choose to stand upon,
supports to look beyond

As you add your face onto the mountain,
new words inscribed in song

Past voices serve to push you,
to that place you’ve never been

Where your breath may cleanse forever,
the stain
—of unoriginal sin

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Did you flavor it with Hemingway,
  or season it with Thoreau

Did you structure it like Eliot,
  or was Melville more your go

The rocks you choose to stand upon,
 —just supports to look beyond

As you add your face onto the mountain,
  new words inscribed in song

Past voices serve to push you,
  to that place you’ve never been

Where your breath may cleanse forever
  the stain,
  —of unoriginal sin

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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nature created me, defines me, emboldens me, holds me.
I am one with the stars, the oaks, the meadow and butterflies.
a tree hugger, a naturalist, I am uplifted by the outdoors.
a female Thoreau, I live in the woods gladly, feeling spirit.

surrounded by fox, squirrel, deer, raccoon, and muskrat,
I have found turtles, snakes, lizards, and ducks in Kansas
cardinals, blue jays, wrens and woodpeckers surround me.
mystical orbs are photographed by me around my dragonflies....

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