Upmarket Gardener
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Fred entered his shrubbery
in a horticultural society gardening contest
and wising to wager on the outcome
as to which bush was the best
bet his hedge to win
and yet at the time quite ...
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Categories:
shrubbery, flower, fun, garden, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Howling Wilderness
...High winds have come to a land remote and wild.
Oak leaves tremble in the black of night
While critters to the underbrush for the present are exiled.
Like a giant thras...
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Categories:
shrubbery, wind,
Form: Acrostic
Persusasive Waters
...persuasive “ “ “ “ “ “ “ waters in gravitational pull
plummeting “ “ “ “ “ “ “ in the midst; a misty rainbow
of flamboyant “ “ “ “ ...
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Categories:
shrubbery, art, autumn, beauty, water,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Echo Returns Not
... I sailed an olive boat
into the center of the sea
alone
to find a cure for my loose heart
not the spring-back type, noble with elasticity
but leap-forward lecher-wild
binding to any skirt...
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Categories:
shrubbery, conflict, irony, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories:
shrubbery, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Buttered Fields
...Buttered Fields
It was early when she was tickled awake
as light eased under the eaves
to trickle through a sigh of curtains,
to whisper across the bedroom floor,
to nudgingly nestle beside h...
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Categories:
shrubbery, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Another Fine Spring Day
...Another fine spring day gently dying,
Subtle variegated colors and
Tender vivid greens are dappled now
With golden flecks and dollops of buttery sunlight.
Shadows begin their mysterious, meticulo...
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Categories:
shrubbery, appreciation, joy, spring,
Form: Free verse
Treats And Sweets
...Lined with a fence of modeling chocolate,
treats and sweets but never gingerbread;
My garden grows popcorn and cotton candy
eat all you like it just keeps germinating;
Treats and sweets but nev...
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Categories:
shrubbery, candy, chocolate, emotions, feelings,
Form: Pantoum
Something Else
...Under the hedgerow,
nothing will fall apart, nor hold,
until a first milky dribble
is squeezed into the
mewing mouths of the newborn.
Small forms roll in their dim pelts,
nightjars swoop from...
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Categories:
shrubbery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleep
...When death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleep,
Between the chasms of my being, like a butterfly in a cocoon,
I embraced her to my chest that whispered seraphic tales,
And I heard the r...
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Categories:
shrubbery, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)...
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Categories:
shrubbery, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose
Categories:
shrubbery, morning, nature,
Form: Haiku
Sixgun Sids Day In Court - Mildly Bawdy
...[For the uninitiated or for the inebriated
Or because I fear my story might be underrated
I feel I should advise you using any fact that fits
That Sixgun Sid has wooden legs and other wooden bits....
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Categories:
shrubbery, humorous, western,
Form: Rhyme
Pomp and Circumstance
...Happy Earth Day, PS...
How the majestic spectacle of Nature is revealed
At the end of a dull and gloomy day
When the bullying, storm-foreboding clouds give way
And allow the struggling, setti...
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Categories:
shrubbery, earth day,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Forgiveness
...I was a renowned, NASA scientist, with my face always turned to blue stars,
As eyes are ever drawn to a flaming sunset, as to colorful, outdoor bazaars.
And stargazing brought big excitement, and...
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Categories:
shrubbery, fantasy, forgiveness, friendship, imagery,
Form: Couplet
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