Shoveling Dirt
...I watched the farmer do daily chores, year after year.
On hot days, those of snow, each morning he was here
before lavender light of dawn, he checked on his crops
tended to all the animals and fed...
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Categories:
spading, farm, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
White
...WHITE
Thumbs up for the whiteness of white, pure,
natural or gently recreated on a dentist’s chair.
How beautiful it manifests itself in smiling!
Would I wish otherwise for me but to
displ...
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Categories:
spading, clothes, color, culture,
Form: Free verse
Burning Hell of Death
...Nothing beseeches more than darkness
The outer rims of the black Earth
Raw refining nothingness in oblivion
Where no-one desired to reside
Without a hatred for life, that which simmers
Like the ...
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Categories:
spading, angst, death, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Ma's Garden
...Ma issued a decree that Pa received with very little ardor:
"A vegetable garden is needed to supplement our meager larder!"
Pa would rather spend his leisure time snoozing on the couch,
But he all...
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Categories:
spading, funnysweet, summer, garden, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Memory Makers Mirror
...My moment in eternity ...
A drew drops from a leaf
In a ocean of green serenity
Etched in the beginning of belief
And you and I
When we took our registe...
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Categories:
spading, history, life, philosophyocean,
Form: Free verse