Short Undergrowth Poems

Old Fallen Antler
cries deep in the snow.
Lost in the dead undergrowth....

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Forest undergrowth,

Submits to the rising sun:

Rays of forgiveness....

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canopy uproots
lies upon the undergrowth...
breeding rookery

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Dreaming Leaves
Dreaming leaves like songs
a pale wind passes through trees
murmur in the undergrowth...

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crisp - fall - swift - cloudburst
soaks camouflaged covered earth…
teasing undergrowth

Copyright © 2011 By Caryl S. Muzzey...

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walk through the forest
birds call animals scurry 
untamed undergrowth 
steps quiet on pine needles
owl calls “who?” “it's me,” I say...

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HILLSIDE And  ALBATROSS A Haiku

cliffs black blue strata
hide grey in the undergrowth 
albatross dying

6/13/19...

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renard slyly skulks
in the leafy undergrowth
success… dinnertime!

Renard - traditional french word for fox

27th May 2015...

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Blossoming 
Effulgent sun proffers love 
Clambering… 

Ascending
Above the undergrowth…of
Thorns and weeds

Furtively
The moon unravels wonders
Glimmering...

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Leveret scurries
Trained ears, panoramic sight
Saved - by a hare's breath.


Easter Bunny blinks
Burrows the deep undergrowth
Close shave this morning...

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...with apologies to WW


I wandered lonely as a cloud
until my feet got wet.
I struggled through the 
undergrowth and found myself
beset by insects all around, 
my temper wholly spent,
to hell with yellow daffodils
and my predicament!...

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Nature distorts humans
to conform to its pattern, in shape and form.
Stretching, bending, squeezing
the human form to somehow fit in,
as an odd Chameleon,
hiding out of place 
distorted and misshapen,
bashfully conforming in camouflage....

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I wandered lonely as a cloud
until my feet got wet.
I struggled through the 
undergrowth and found myself
beset by insects all around, 
my temper wholly spent,
to hell with yellow daffodils
and my predicament!

...with apologies to Mr Wordsworth!...

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...to William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a cloud 
and then my feet got wet. 
I struggled through the 
undergrowth and found myself 

beset by insects nibbling at my 
breast, my temper wholly spent;
to hell with yellow daffodils 
and my predicament!...

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Fern and bluebell thrive
Dense trees forging green shelter
Footpaths meander.
Mystery at every turn
Gnarled roots display nature's art.

Forest canopy
Dappled sunlight and shadow
Rustling undergrowth
Spring is stirring steadily
Epiphany of nature....

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No script
belonging one’s civilization
no history
anyone can recall,
only the enduring solid stone blocks
someone created to form this ancient wall.
A relic unknowingly
left to the woodland undergrowth
and those
that measure nature’s time.

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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A
Barn Owl
sits up high,
head twisting round.
Rustling undergrowth,
he swoops silently down.
Shrill screech of terror and pain,
the evil deed done, he returns home.
Three fluffy chicks hungrily await,
they feast, stocking up for the winter months.

written 09/20/2015

Contest For the Love of October...

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I can’t see the forest for the trees
If I look up what color leaves will I see
I look down and see grass so green
And little wild flowers so much like me

There in the distance is a woman a man
Were they kissing or holding hands
Is he from the church giving praying hands
Or other word of the war and husband



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steamy jungle
  dense undergrowth
viny overgrowth
  thickets abound --
monkeys chatter
  foretelling doom
snakes hissing
  eerie sirens --
bamboo sticks
  in the ground
spiked with poison
  puncture unsure feet...
all to protect
  an unseen enemy
raining bullets down 
  from nowhere    

~ Viet Nam, 1966 ~...

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Perch birds atop a car, tweeting sweet tweets.
Shines the mellow morning sun, her beaming golden shine. 
Earth's wind glides about her gentle run. 
The undergrowth bellows her hue green. 
Lean lanky trees reach for the sky, 
high on high the sky adorned in her blue dye, 
is sashed in clouds of vagrant white.



-Nature musings....

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How sunlight turns everything green – 
emerald grass on the headland, 
bottle-green of undergrowth and shadow, 
verdigris of shallow water in the cove, 
moss-green of tidal pools.

But oh, the browns – auburn, russet, 
cinnamon – shades that render 
sea and land, as painted 
by this morning’s artist sun-brush, 
so much greener....

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Cracked and scarred
from many years of depravity,
existing only through
the skill it is made of.

Crevices guard
roots of weeds
as they push and squeeze
their way through.
A jungle of undergrowth
stretched across society,
    entangling us
in its vastness,
hiding a beauty
that could exist
if we pruned it 
         occasionally....

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deep within the dimly lit bush  
totara trees, tall and straight 
envelop the tangled undergrowth 
            roots and leaf mold 
                    cool damp earth
 
ahead 
caught in a patch of sunlight 
the bright green fern frond 
unfolding 



8 November 2022 
'Unburden a U word' poetry contest 
Sponsor Constance La France...

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Drowning in disgrace
Shame faced
Denying Christ again & again
Falling into sin
Carried by the wind
I send the pain below
Deep down into the undergrowth.

Like a moth attracted to a flame
Lame, I'm mangled with regret
I forfeit the race to become a mace
Disfiguring my face
I stand disgraced
Longing for a place
Finding God in my brokenness....

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I heard a rustle in the undergrowth
felt thunder in the ground,
my eyes fixed on the corner
as the monster came around.

As far as I could see
he was heading my way,
I hope he hasn't seen me
or this could be my last day.

I got back home but I could see
he's heading for my house,
and then I laughed,it's just a cat
but forgot that I'm a mouse....

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