Trowel Poems - Poems about Trowel

Burden

...To be a burden means to not use the tools strewn about. 
The rusty trowel and bucket filled with half-thoughts.
Be a burden. 
Your words are just wailing and buzzing at us.

I can be a burden. 
...

A Gaggle of Laughs

...

Grook

He who believes the world will end by fire,
global warming and rising waters will prove a liar.


Honest Anthropologist

From his peers came a howl
when a famous anthropologist
c...

Whatever, this was dumb anyway

...Always messing up
When I feel so upset
Going all in way too hard
To lose another stupid bet

Losing all my hard earned money
Yet again I am robbed blind
At this point it’s all quite funny
I h...

Exposed

...From this angle the bushes do not conceal them.
Are they hinged or unhinging?
Each body is a prison gate for the other,
both seem stuck together by a pungent lip spit.
Feathering fingers pulse-pl...

Literary Feud Among - Pt 1

...Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter li...

The Bricks You Lay

...Is your house built out of certainty
are the walls made thin or stout

Is your mind filled up with questions
do you live in fear or doubt

Is your spirit free or servile
is your will unchained...

Above politics

...We are all part of the political landscape,
And from that there is no escape,
Even if on the moonscape.

We do however have the power to change that landscape,
If we do not bow and scrape, 
But...

He Had Always

...savoured the roses in the garden
especially the climbing variety
because they had no bounds
and therefore represented 
the wild passion of change

the juice of fresh blackberries
ran down as h...

A Perennial Orgy

...I prefer to gaze at my Eden
through this veil of screens.
There, the miracle of sun and bloom
explodes with delight over my stoned edges.

But...ponder me first before venturing
once more unto ...

Ten Keys On Life

...As we ate on the 33rd floor

" his eyes shifted "

" the feather lifted "

and I knew once more

" ten keys "

are his way to a door...

" my trowel "

is for Phi!

and the measure

...

Closer To Fine

...my garden in a Spanish town
is overgrown with weeds
due to lack of time and purpose
one thing that grows is beautiful lemons
too many to make lemonade
for me and my wife

when life overburdens...

Seeds

...Those seeds you plant are positively primitive, almost nothing at all. You can eat them from the palm of your soulful hand. You can look at them, greedily hide them - close them up in your tight fist...

Potting Shed Catches Gossip

...Sunlight entered the aquamarine potting shed from the east
Beating the master gardener by a few minutes or steps
Ruffled marigold seeds were waiting to be planted in seedling trays
It was March th...

A Mater of Mine

...A. Mater of Mine 

said Water to Wine

is a dated riddle...

The founders who are fathers

made a matter of time

so Mother buttered embers

in bated rhymes...

" they're bread for this...

Garden

...pernicious weeds a metaphor
for wild growth inside 
my mind and soul

dandelion mating with brambles
wild cats’ rampant Rubus 
grinding teeth and thorns

reason guides the trowel
for emotion...

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