Planting Mums By the Firth
...The luxurious feel of freshly troweled earth
Sifting through my hands as I ready the plot,
I shall plant roots for chrysanthemums’ birth
Ere fierce sun rising spoils their golden spot.
Sifting ...
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Categories:
troweled, flower, garden,
Form: Pantoum
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iii
...Marching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers,
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhab...
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Categories:
troweled, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Escape
...He stares at the wall for hours gone by,
shoulders stooped,
drawn inward ever so slightly, indicate his level of relaxation.
Eyes dimmed by years of constant strain,
try to focus on a small c...
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Categories:
troweled, confusion, death, depression, hope,
Form: Free verse
Chiaroscuro
...sun-spoiled colors like fruit to burst slowly yield to a shadow tide pulling a demure
crescent
moon posing nude for constellations extinguished by the tremorous lips of dawn
changing
watercol...
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Categories:
troweled, nature, time,
Form: Imagism