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Shovelling Poems - Poems about Shovelling

Premium Member Memories of a Childhood Home
...My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the bean garden, and to sled the slope in Winter white. eyes delirious dazzled, ......

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Categories: shovelling, home, house, memory,
Form: Haibun
What Does It Mean To Think
...What does it mean to think to have thoughts to have ideas and opinions to have likes and dislikes to trust and to distrust to dream, to contemplate, to analyse to plan, to postpone to love,......

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Categories: shovelling, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Old Shovel
...OLD SHOVEL I’m just an old shovel, worse for wear Long wooden handle badly weathered Yet this job tonight, fills me with disgust It is merely fulfilling my duty, as I must A corpse to bury, li......

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Categories: shovelling, angst, body,
Form: Rhyme
Mother L
...Some days my mother and I don’t speak, We’ll pass each other in the hallway, and we will pretend that we are on good terms. The hallway wallpaper is torn up – white flowers, stubbornl......

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Categories: shovelling, angst, feelings, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Cesspit
...Cesspit The shovelling soldiers are sent off to war To dig latrines so their soldier brethren can Not in peace but to empty their guts between fights Ukrainians have other ideas they want to k......

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Categories: shovelling, grave, military, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member What Kind of Flowers
...Will soon be eighty-eight, not a great idea To shovel snow anymore The danger of a heart attack is ever present Certainly not something to ignore Up in our brains we're still young as e......

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Categories: shovelling, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Bacon Butty Rant
...Why are all these hash slingers Constantly there on my TV? When did the ability to cook Become reason for celebrity? Eating for me is just like Shovelling coal on a fire, Just adding fuel to k......

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Categories: shovelling, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Porcelain Doll
...Porcelain doll, with a face so pretty a country gal, ran away to the city Worked in a bar, dancing on tables beat shovelling sh-it, in Pa’s stables Looks for love, but only finds bums lowlife......

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Categories: shovelling, age, allusion, girl, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Prairie Spring In Canada
...Here in the prairies we get lots of snow It’s not even strange to see 40 below It’s almost to an end With spring ‘round the bend So take off, Eh’ winter! Dontcha know! It isn’t the cold that’s......

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Categories: shovelling, seasons, spring,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member On Snow Shovelling
...On Snow Shovelling A foot of snow fell by night With no let-up in sight. (“Brrr, it’s cold out there.”)– A mutt rebounds past my window, As I contemplate the morning weather, ......

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Categories: shovelling, humor, snow, weather, winter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Wild Wild North
...The rumbling and shovelling Pandemonium and desecration The killings and maiming of souls Boko harambee, the harem of murderers The genie let loose, murder incorporated, Unlicensed to k......

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Categories: shovelling, anger, betrayal, dark, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Came Early
...Winter Came Early Winter came early in a blast of flurries, Cold like the dickens, but we were tingling, Giddy with joy and eager to get going, To kick up our heels in the newly fallen s......

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Categories: shovelling, children, snow, winter,
Form: Verse
In a Heartbeat
...Antagonised from the depths of my psyche, the charcoal dirt is blown and dusts of deepest black scatter, not dead but dormant from the fickle and the protective. A breeze permeates my insides ......

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Categories: shovelling, love,
Form: Free verse
Battle Rap
...hey buddy, I have to tell you, you stink just like rat pooh! raw effluent smells so much better! I wear a gas mask so I can breathe around you, to say your dirty would be complementary, ......

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Categories: shovelling, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You'Re Probably Unaware
...You're probably not aware of this, so listen up please I'm on a LAST NAME basis with some real famous peeps It's really quite an honour But an “honour” I'm unsure I keep shovelling this d......

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Categories: shovelling, humor,
Form: Limerick

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