I tended to not
I tend not to play a losing game and
it made me win
and walls high I didn't slide down
was enough
Painted an answer so turbulent
to provocative questions too
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Categories:
tended, absence, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
He Tended Her Garden
Her spirit lived in the garden's bright blooms.
Tended with a solemn vow that he'd kept.
Their scent reminded him of her perfumes.
While planting, his sad heart mournfully wept.
Tended with a solemn vow that he'd kept,
Although years had passed since her tragic death.
He hoed and weeded, Autumn leaves were swept,
fulfilling his promise to his wife, Beth.
Although years
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Categories:
tended, garden, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Categories:
tended, celebration, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Three Fine, Well-Tended Graves, Part Ii
...It was early fall when the trouble came
to the Sperry’s and the Circle-S Ranch,
a dozen bandits came riding in hard,
shooting their guns in an entrance grand,
they thought none would dare make a stand,
but the punchers pulled iron for hard deeds,
and Rudy shot a bandit clear off his steed.
The ranch descended into swirling chaos,
as lead and
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Categories:
tended, courage, family, growth, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Three Fine, Well-Tended Graves, Part I
Rudolph Sperry was a ranch-owner’s son,
and rode hard for his Circle-S brand,
helping punchers herd cattle 'cross the plains,
in Nebraska’s western Sand Hill lands,
he wasn’t that bad for a young man,
but even though he daily risked his neck,
it seemed the cowboys gave him no respect.
He suspected it was because of his pa,
they though Rudy a spoiled,
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Categories:
tended, courage, family, growth, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
As I Tended My Flowers
Today
This evening
As I tended my flowers
I felt you
Your love for me....
So intense...
I have never felt
Before....
I felt happy
No... not happy....
Thrilled is more appropriate....
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Categories:
tended, love
Form: Prose Poetry
As I Tended My Flowers
Today
This evening
As I tended my flowers
I felt you
Your love for me....
So intense...
I have never felt
Before....
I felt happy
No... not happy....
Thrilled is more appropriate....
...
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Categories:
tended, love
Form: Prose Poetry