On the Summer Fields
...I’ve been walking for a mile
The woman stalking me has been sniffing for a while
She has become my second shadow
I hope I am not the source of her sorrow.
I quicken my steps on the quagmire of ...
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Categories:
tillage, emotions, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche...
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Categories:
tillage, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick
Farmland Allowed To Teacher
...Many would have for it killed
And blood of The Guiltless spilled,
True Catholics to surprise,
For it fight and let voice rise!
An eye catching Rich Terrain
That knows how to welcome rain;
En...
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Categories:
tillage, business, cancer, celebration, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Eden Earthed Over
...The apple fell already bitten upon,
a mossy soil coated where the tooth-cleaved.
Soon grubs worked their way out
of the pith
creating a teeming mulch.
Adam had fallen asleep again,
in his gut...
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Categories:
tillage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Gardener
...He counts roots and tendrils,
delves deep into his tillage,
some plantings have escaped
and he wonders to where?
He seeks for the once planted,
finds them, reveals again the beauty
even in th...
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Categories:
tillage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Worth Call of the Wild-
...I heard the call of the wild
It bewildered me and chilled my body
Closed my mind filled
Filled me with uncertainty
I am entrapped in my own village
I have been lapsed
Fell! Fallen ...
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Categories:
tillage, adventure, devotion, feelings, nature,
Form: Free verse
Garden Guards
...Each petal, leaf, each vein, each thorn, not any one the same,
Stand tall in there duty protecting Their tillage from the dark winged shadows circling the sky's mains
The wind slightly changes and ...
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Categories:
tillage, environment, flower, garden, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Through the Vicious Eyes of Love
...
"Through the Vicious Eyes of Love"
All is fair
in love and war
or so they say;
why so
as saints,
mothers
go through
the course of w...
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Categories:
tillage, child, i am, woman,
Form: Free verse
A Consistently Poor Wage
...A consistently poor wage
Licenses rage:
An ugly fight against the cage,
Steady enveloping of stagnant wage,
A temper warning every wedge,
Rising while lowered with vintage.
Hirers open a ster...
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Categories:
tillage, anxiety, bullying, business, career,
Form: Rhyme
Replanted
...He was airlifted to another place.
The heath, the dales,
the ridges, the high moors,
they all began to slip away
under throbbing wings.
Occasionally a woman would approach,
a silk moth in the...
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Categories:
tillage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
...Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of life...
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Categories:
tillage, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Agenda
..."Again... I apologize but threefold times Using paper, pad and quill. ...
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Categories:
tillage, america,
Form: Political Verse
Flower 2
...Flower smiles in the morning
To overthrow any mourning,
Engendering the feeling
That begins soft healing:
Flower displays our choicest elegance,
Exuding the firmest fragrance,
Past striding the...
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Categories:
tillage, appreciation, blessing, celebration, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mobile In Alabama
...Those were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.
Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
I...
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Categories:
tillage, beauty, dream, home, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Eden Unearthed
...The apple fell to earth. It was bitten through
it rolled; mossy soil coated the tooth-cleaved part.
Already grubs were working their way out
of the pith creating a teeming mulch.
Adam had falle...
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Categories:
tillage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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