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Sphagnum Poems - Poems about Sphagnum


My Hairy Wild Petunia
..."My Hairy Wild Petunia" Likened To lichen Sphagnum Mostly moss Made moist Dew do me Kiss my Lab ia Good Bi......

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Categories: sphagnum, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Terrarium
...In a violent contumacious act the rankled child smashed the terrarium; the green shards of glass making an abstract scheme on the tiles of the solarium. Amid the sphagnum and the fertile dirt si......

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Categories: sphagnum, anger, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mire of the Northern Rain Forest
...Spring buds Bursting Like popcorn stuck on sticks Raising my perspective to Gallivant In knee-high tickle grass Nested In the strew of stony rocks Festooned With sphagnum and lichen Frothed......

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Categories: sphagnum, flower, insect, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Moss of Glen Affric
...The phantoms of Glen Affric call from deep within the histosol, where time and matter’s slow decay of misty glen and ancient fray, conceal Mackenzie ghosts in wait with weapons drawn to gree......

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Categories: sphagnum, history, war,
Form: Rhyme
Moss Crossed Feathered Flights
...Scraped off the south-side of Old Tumble Falls rigid rocks roll helpless down to an empty floor no more holding roost high amidst cliffs kept close final rays of her dying sun feathered below ......

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Categories: sphagnum, fate, imagery, song,
Form: Free verse



Rains Are Coming
...Sleep me, conceive me like sphagnum; propel me to essence of death. Seeing has put me behind the truth, objectively. Like centipede, fear crawls in deep blind cave throwing the feelers. The gen......

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Categories: sphagnum, life, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: ABC
Being a Mosser
...I was a mosser For many of years Hard manual labor Not what it appears Sphagnum moss a life For underprivileged some A way to make a living Not who you want to become Working grueling hou......

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Categories: sphagnum, introspection, life, work, education,
Form: I do not know?
Epitaph To a Happy Mosquito
...T'was a warm summer's day, when I took to the trail, to cruise that old black spruce, way down in the swale. A gallon of bug dope was strapped on my hip, which I figured would last me for most o......

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Categories: sphagnum, cowboy-western, funny, nature, me,
Form: Ballad

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