Sunny Season
...The sun's ventures to scorch the blossoms fail.
Goddesses Maia and Lakshmi sail.
Pre-monsoon drizzles cool the environs.
Optimism spreads wings, hushing storm's sirens.
Human forms are moulded ...
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Categories:
tillers, life, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
I dont need a tiller
...Tillers cost up to three hundred dollars
I don’t need one, I have a puppy
He digs a hole every day to bury his face in
All I have to do is stake him out like a goat on a chain
Wherever I want my ...
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Categories:
tillers, dog,
Form: Free verse
Bumkins
...In green fields, where daisies bloom,
Beneath the vast and arching sky,
There dwells a folk, with laughter's plume,
Whose lives in simple toil imply.
Calloused hands, sun-kissed, tanned, and...
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Categories:
tillers, family, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Women Hold Half the Sky
...Not muscles forged in fire's wrath,
But gentle hands that cradle life's path.
Not thunder's roar that shakes the earth,
But whispers soft, of wisdom's worth.
Weavers of dreams, on futures brigh...
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Categories:
tillers, appreciation, beauty, celebration, endurance,
Form: Narrative
The Noddy Land
...The noddy land
Reality is more than we see in an everyday happening
It stretches further into another dimension we call dreams
but are vital in living life.
What my ghostwriter tries to say is:...
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Categories:
tillers, 2nd grade, absence, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Hammerklavier
...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers listen
through touch,
they become deeper, more blunted,
a vibration of mal...
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Categories:
tillers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hammerklavier
...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.
His apa...
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Categories:
tillers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gear Up
...It is set to take the stage,
We see signs of its coming,
The tillers eagerly await,
Its visit brings life, hope and newness.
March 5, 2022
MARCH IN Poetry Contest...
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Categories:
tillers, green, nature, spring,
Form: Verse
Harbinger of Life
...The season the tillers earnestly await,
The thirsty and parched celebrate,
The dead are awakened,
The weak are strengthened,
An envelope of life and beauty permeate.
February 18, 2022...
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Categories:
tillers, celebration, change, farm, flower,
Form: Limerick
Cantos of Time
...Moments are not the retinue of time. There is one which
decides the turning point of mankind. I can’t hand over to sighs
that time which stands and beckons me. To hell with the shades
to rec...
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Categories:
tillers, angst, anxiety, leadership,
Form: Epic
The Poet As Metaphor, Earth, Self-Taught
...A POET AS METAPHOR**********
I am a poet from the common ground,
From thIs blue planet’s distinctive character— of
Continental shifts and rockslides, from valleys to Mountain crowns — always to...
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Categories:
tillers, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
Elemental Ring Chain
...Grey vapour sated clouds extend their chain
Of rainy bursts and torrents at a glance
The hoarse throat whine from canyons weren’t in vain
As green shoot tillers bow to circumstance
Rush petals ...
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Categories:
tillers, beautiful, beauty, birth, care,
Form: Dizain
Hammerklavier
...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.
His apa...
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Categories:
tillers, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
May Day
...It is May Day, today.
A day in the month of May.
A day set aside for the illustrious
men and women of the world.
Dutiful and diligent fellows.
Individuals with thoughts of change
for the globa...
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Categories:
tillers, holiday, may,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Dead
...I do not know
Whose excitement was the greater
My dad’s or mine
As we boarded the bus
To a long-lost dream
Of verdant fields
Rich with the fruit of native soil
Of crystal clear streams
Whe...
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Categories:
tillers, family, father son, loss,
Form: Free verse
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