Short Wheelbarrow Poems

So much depends
Upon

a black coffee 
cup

faded with use
steam

into the faces
of us all...

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so much to give
for you.

so much love for
only you.

so much hate
for me


and i hate all
of it
inspired by the red wheelbarrow....

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You have many tools 

to help you Love 

as God would.

Inside your shed 

there is a wheelbarrow 
 
With this 

you can move the earth....

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Trump wants Stephen "Wheelbarrow" Moore
To open the Treasury door
All the gold in Fort Knox
Must be woven in socks
So Trump's feet will not touch the floor!...

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The red wheelbarrow
with its cement smudges
and rusty scratches
dwarfs the white rabbit
nibbling young lettuce
covered in morning dew
next to the flowering
crepe myrtle....

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STEALING

There once was a lady named Clara
Who daily rolled a wheelbarrow
It was always filled with hay 
Police searched it one day
Found out she was stealing wheelbarrows

19 August 2018...

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The wheelbarrow of Prince Prospero
pushed straightaway, like an arrow
it's passengers a motley farrow
not worth much more than a sparrow
it's aim and goal so very narrow
'tis horrifying to the marrow...

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Butterfly bushes
And apple blossoms
Sparkling garden art
Red wheelbarrow
Six purple iris

Pretty garden
Aromatic 
Color alive
Bees and wasps fly

Deer visits
Cardinals too
Marigolds

Tasty
Orangey

flowers...

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There is beauty
to dirt and blood
to broken
fingernails
and loneliness
to a wheelbarrow in
rain
and ripe, purple
plums
to the hazy scent of
a life less lived
by a surrendered
book
and a left over
glove. 


© Gry W Christensen...

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tropical raindrops in the open orchid
labial portals
loosely folded
a rouged acceptance

a decorative wheelbarrow
as green as wet moss
tilts to see

small pungent gardens
listen
to their hothouse fevers...

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I've built up such a thirst
keeping it on course
ripping words from ink stained pages

Wil doth shake
Charlie just a dick end
I wrote whit i want
Bleed your tortured visions
Blur your softest word
The Bring out your dead
cart is back...

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Trying to remember
a time
when I could hear
"this is just to say"
without the taste
of plum juice
on my tongue.

I simply cannot look
at a rain-coated
wheelbarrow
and not believe
the weight of the world
rests
in its reflective
red, surface....

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Certain crickets have the largest testes compared to their body mass
14% of their entire body weight even including their huge ass
If it applied to us guys
Our weight would stupefy
Can't imagine, would need a wheelbarrow, it's hard not to be crass...

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Everyone is born a pedestrian
progresses as a big fleshy toad
lives as an edible sweet cookie
ends life as broken wheelbarrow

Dear human, be not proud then
Invincible power is puppeteer
every human is a comedy puppet
living in theater of broken promises

Let your eyes see your back
surely you discover who you are...

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With a wheelbarrow full of manure 
For my strawberry patch,
Pushing past an asylum
I heard the gate latch,
An inmate emerged and said
What you got there?
I said it's to put on my strawberries 
So they're not so bare.
He said, gee whizz mate,
You should come inside,
When they serve our strawberries
They put cream on the side....

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Chicago, the South Side,
	    long before Barack Obama


those I'd love see live
anywhere they like
are those so black
they up long planks
in the heat of summer
wheelbarrow coal
so bright it pours
in a silver seiche
down chutes
through windows
of bungalow basements
crashing in coal bins 
of new masters


Donal Mahoney...

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Coal Bins

	Chicago, the South Side,
	long before Barak Obama

those I'd love see live
anywhere they like
are those so black
they up long planks
in the heat of summer
wheelbarrow coal
so bright it pours
in a silver seiche
down chutes
through windows
of bungalow basements
crashing in coal bins 
of new masters


Donal Mahoney...

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Wheelbarrow cat was the garden overseer
Sitting above the plants year after year
When buyers got closer, she would disappear
Her owner never put her seat into gear

She loved the butterflies with their wings so sheer
Tried to bat them away when they got near
Garden gnomes let out a thunderous cheer
When the Germans brought out their exotic beer...

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A pink small sparrow
Comes at my halo
And grants me furlough
To travel through hollow;
I do after her lonely flow
But at my trail many glow
With expectation inflow
Of Money red or yellow.
It made me strong fellow,
From yesterday to tomorrow,
Who travels lonely and slow
By using a wheelbarrow.
No friend or enemy allow
Me to enter in his furrow.
So ye decide judiciously now 
And choose relatives or sparrow....

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Hillbilly Bobby shared his snack with a chickadee
The bird gave out some sounds a toot, a peet and a twee
His relatives came by and wanted bird seed too.
Bobby called in relatives to see what they could do.

They baked up cornbread and threw it onto the ground.
The smell of ham, beans and onions wafted all around.
They ended up feeding the entire chickadee nation.
Now this is an annual October harvest celebration....

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Premiered at The Red Wheelbarrow Comedy Roost, 
Marlton , NJ – 6/18/2009	                 

ACT 1

Birmingham Grace
Dark Stockings 
Muse
Same Drop of Rain
In Other Words
Blacksmith’s Lament

ACT 2

Silhouette
Oral Sex
Silent Siren
Dangerous Cargo
All I Can Do
Sleeping
Dreaming of You
Beaumains in the Wilderness

ACT 3

Indian Summer
David and Bathsheba
Pennsylvania Fieldstone
Common Law Proposal
Somethin’ Right...

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ESCAPE OF SNOW

Snow shivers on heavy branches.
Lyrics of snowbirds awakens awe.
Bent back of pines — tortuous cane.
Wheelbarrow weighted down with snow.

~

After storm comes avalanches,
Power outage and blackbird caw.
Powder keg of snow from yonder pane.
Eyes mesmerized ~ life travels slow.

~

For Winter, I hold… no disdain.
This reprieve: there’s no grass to mow.

12/9/2017
Rimas Dissolutas Form...

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two of the happiest most colorful trolls of the hour
came by in a wheelbarrow and picked up a flower
I watched them and smiled, they were having such fun.
one of them fell out and landed smack on his bum.

they both thought this was a hoot, and laughed merrily.
I ran out and asked if either would like Georgia peach tea.
they ran off giggling, but did not answer me at all.
my pink zinnias told me it is because I am a monster at five feet tall....

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Even the smallest ants cast long shadows
While carrying the weight of a large chunk
Inching along with food that seems shallow
Even the smallest ants cast long shadows
Weighted down and used like a wheelbarrow
Constant loads has its spirit drawn and shrunk
Even the smallest ants cast long shadows
While carrying the weight of a large chunk

Sponsor: Scott Thirtyseven
Contest: Even The Smallest Ants Cast Long Shadows
Written: January 17, 2015...

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