Short Uproot Poems

Trails of blood money
Paper trails of paper cuts
A destroyed forest...

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A pickled earth soured
As the soil is deflowered
Tons of weeds uproot...

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Spring awakening
    thousands of seedlings uproot
        legends of winter...

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The storms uproot flowers
to scatter seeds far and wide,
birth new life elsewhere.
...

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Breath in, Breath out, and let Knowlege take it's root and uproot feeble minded violence....

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Gloved hands deep in soil,
       Searching to uproot new seed
              Birth to life to death....

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dark
uproot 
sunnier 
kindred oak trees 
yield

gnarl
noble
an ageless
reverent yet
large



3/17/2019...

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Springtime forgotten
Clouds release winter memories
While gale force winds
Uproot sunshine desires
Like shallow rooted trees...

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Easy to uproot
When you never planted love
Just some fake gemstones
Posed as pearls till the morning
She wakes up lonely and learns...

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sycamore trees
uproot 
themselves
To 
walk among 
the 
graves
to 
dwell inside 
the 
souls of men
and
walk
Among the graves...

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Beauty exists in spite of the news
Majority of us are still hard-working dudes
The current scum at the top
Will be swiped with a mop
Wiped clean until finally we uproot...

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Thistles create
		neat purple blooms
		but their stalks are prickly.
		Grabbed near the ground
		thistles will uproot
		with little damage
		to fingers and thumb.
		It’s rising in the world
		that makes them so nasty....

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Kenya’s Goddess came in hard and fast
With wind that ruffled the grasses of the savannas
The trees felt her presence and cringed
Wondering if she would uproot them
She is all powerful they warned the animals
The lions stayed to watch, but the meerkats hid...

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Kenya’s Goddess came in hard and fast
With wind that ruffled the grasses of the savannas
The trees felt her presence and cringed
Wondering if she would uproot them
She is all powerful they warned the animals
The lions stayed to watch, but the meerkats hid...

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Ocean gales and tidal shift
Pounding 
Basalt and sandstone mountains
Boulders 
Rocks tumble into pebbles
Mighty trees 
Uproot and splinter in Neptune's fury
Under my feet,  
Crumbled remains of life 
Ground to dust by the unrelenting ocean
Walking barefoot on tiny shards of glass...

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Can you rise above yourself
  to live and speak the truth

Can your parts reform and shun
  a past you now uproot

Can you become that special someone
  while others look askance

Can the lie you’ve lived before today
 —get one last second chance

(Las Vegas Nevada: January, 2018)...

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The most brutal of storms ,
have not the courage to uproot the kindest hearts , 
.
The most violent rains ,
could soak you ,
couldn't dampen the soul .
.
And what keeps me going
 is my burning desire ,
 to live , to love, to dream,
.
As it was all left burning bright into flames,
after the strongest of  winds died out....

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Adam and Eve, the parents of you, me and Steiner
                     Defy God’s wish, go to market, and buy a strainer
                         They strain the streaming sin from the fruit
                            the fibres remain, the seeds to uproot 
               They yell Ha the sin’s out seeds out we’re free,no-brainer...

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R-ise of the sun begins, 
U-nderneath the blue sky; 
E-arly morn February third
L-ets the cold night pass by.

B-ountiful Friday has come, 
E-vening haze has vanished; 
L-onely twilight ends, 
A-s the shadows diminish, 
N-o more tufts to mow, 
G-rass so wild you uproot; 
E-xpect a plentiful land, 
L-et the vine bear fruit....

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Jealousy finally persuades her victims,
Making them resort to the evilest deeds
No good words or plausible maxims
Will uproot jealousy’s dangerous weeds.

Once planted in the cold weakened heart
They mature as suspicions and doubt,
Raising a strong impenetrable rampart
Until deeds of hatred flesh them out.

Written October 9, 2021...

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The wind can make a sailboat glide
And keep a kite afloat,
Help homes to be electrified;
Give yards a blossom coat.

Yet wind can also uproot trees
And send their branches flying,
Cause boats to capsize on the seas;
Set fields of crops to dying.

From gentle breeze to raging gust,
A whisper or a squall,
Even from indoors, we must
Be held within its thrall....

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In order to discourage birds
From building nearby nests,
Some owners place a row of spikes
To bar unwanted guests.

But crows and magpies, cleverly,
Uproot those spiky things
And use them in the homes they make
To shelter those with wings.

The very tools that humans thought
Would keep the birds at bay,
Our feathered friends employ
To keep their enemies away....

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Some see a scrubby, stunted wood;
the pure heart sees a pond.
A vision cast into the could -
the gift to look beyond…

And though the plan has not converged
quite fully in my head,
I simply can’t resist the urge
to rend, uproot, and shred.

Reclaiming bits of Eden, I
clear out the brambled vines.
Creation and destruction, by
this, briefly are aligned.
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I cringe at thought of another storm 
that will uproot new plants of morning
until my roof and my home
will become more weak than my days.

But I can wish for the midnight sun
to come and glow behind the ridges
of the hills seen through clear waters
where another hope begins;
perhaps,
another tomorrow after the rain.


Sept 3, 2015
What is Randomling Contest
For: Mary Oliver Rotmann...

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Welcome, my hodgepodge, vicious friend,
no need to breathe at my window.
In less than a day you intend
to shatter it with a raged blow.

No cause to slobber like a brute
turning fall bright leaves into boats,
nor drive my maples to uproot
daring them to morph into floats.

Mind your manners please, you’re my guest,
throwing rubbish around is rude
(and childish at the very best).
Do your best to contain your mood....

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