Muck Spreading
...This was the way it was
In my childhood days
With ancient and tried
Crop farming ways.
Up to the ankles in slurry,
Muck fork in hand,
Ready to spread manure
To fertilise the land.
No tractor ...
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Categories:
spreaders, farm, father, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Toward Treasure
...5/25/22
Living in the nether
Couldn't keep it together
For a long time wore a fetter
Remaining tethered
Occasionally got tarred and feathered
To your expectations I lost interest if I'll ever...
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Categories:
spreaders, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
I Really Do Wonder
...Thee attacks on the unvaxxed
are insane and unmatched .
Thank you to propaganda spreaders.
both International and national,fear
mongering spreaders.
Eighty year old nan gets face slapped
w...
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Categories:
spreaders, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
A Saturday Morning Suburban Lament
...Oh, from what demented mind was born
A thing so pointless as a lawn?
Surely some old eccentric lord
In a mansion, born both rich and barmy,
Who could so lavishly afford
A mighty artful minion ...
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Categories:
spreaders, humor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Black Fence
...Beyond the Black Fence
By Sy Roth
The land lay fallow
Beyond the black fence.
Growth once dressed in a white blanket of hoar in winter landscapes
Lush in summer months
Deer speckled backdro...
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Categories:
spreaders, angst,
Form: Free verse
Monty Python
...Monty Python taught me, the more outrageous the better
Brits were born with giggle genes, the rest got aged cheddar
Being a Canuck
Was partly in luck
My genes, though worn, are still Brit...
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Categories:
spreaders, fun,
Form: Limerick
Walking Disease Spreaders
...They never cover their mouths.
They come in sneezing and hacking.
They are germ-mobiles, and I am stuck with them
They are walking disease-spreaders she hissed.
Not in a whisper, but more like a ...
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Categories:
spreaders, funny, school, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
Brit-Based Giggle-Spreader
...Monty Python taught me, the more outrageous the better
Brits were born with giggle genes, the rest got aged cheddar
Being a Canuck
Was partly in luck
My genes, though worn, are still Brit...
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Categories:
spreaders, silly,
Form: Limerick
Help Me Save One At a Time
...Help me save the children from rage and hopelessness,
Bring your optimistic lanterns, and your jubilant joy sticks.
Meet me in a half hour in the gazebo in the park.
Bring all the children you c...
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Categories:
spreaders, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Sterchin
...They once were men, but not these days.
See their quest for power
in their starving gaze.
A people once so, prospered and proud.
Since then let in,
much dark they've allowed.
A thirst unquenche...
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Categories:
spreaders, adventure, fantasydark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Wish Book
...I browsed thro' an old Sears-Roebuck Catalogue the other day.
The necessaries shown in its pages would be antiquities today.
It illustrated harness, horse shoes, things to tend horse's withers,
An...
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Categories:
spreaders, nostalgiaold, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme
Thy Name Is Poet
...Some poets write with a rapier blade,
meaning to cut a thing down
to its bare-boned ism.
Others write of fanciful affairs with a voice
as silk is,
to a fair maiden’s slip.
Some write from t...
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Categories:
spreaders, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Staysail
...Looking aloft
Envisioned dream
Dawn at Sea
Tides crash abeam
Seas mystery
Attempts to bend
Ready bow
Sails to mend
Backstay about
Apparent wind
A close reach
Clew torn within
Naviga...
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Categories:
spreaders,
Form: I do not know?