Unplanted Poems - Poems about Unplanted

...Once upon a time the old songs were new On prairies unplanted invaders were few Where rivers rolled onward no ferries or towns All riverboat minstrels new ages impound The time of the se......

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...(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There) The student stands where shifting sands of thought Once firm with reason now elusive truths are sought. Its splendor wanes a threadbare fading s......

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...("Heaven and Earth", 2024, original encaustic) Planting a Seed Sitting quietly I find a seed within my heart and entering into it plant something unnamable which was there all along ......

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...Plant parched in the sun Let me water and nourish Lush leaves will return......

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...Nested like treasures priceless, eagle parents watch over the brood On an island far away from the city, I beheld in a vision of azure blue A rural settlement in waste laying, arid with black bile ......

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...Ichor running through her veins All blood is pushed aside Her eyelids shut, her heart on ice My fate she would decide Wilted romance, rotting vines Garden left in thorns A lonely rose from la......

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...how old are they now those that fell by the wayside, one foot in the unknown the others that disappeared to the other side of the moon why were they lost, spilling into the wind tossed upwards......

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...last year's unplanted milkweed pods are weighing happily not on my chest of drawers but my bedside end table beginning to open on their own even oddly because the only something that ......

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...Virtues are more than they appear to be. Ripples of connectivity. Something switched on with the light? A companion, manual, override. Especially when storm clouds rear- appear to ruin the blue s......

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... We have come this far, In this forever, here we are, a speck of sand, a blink vulnerable as we think we are not a never, nor are we a forever. Time will claim the choice, silence t......

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...The water sprinkler ran all night Water droplets cling to leaves Round clear circles mirror surroundings Or sparkle sunlight under the eaves A beautiful spring morn Cool, crisp air that si......

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...Iron your dishes Vacuum your clothes Defrost the oven Unplanted......

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...on turning fifty on turning fifty today i looked in the rear view mirror look back into the past and see a speeding car go by a decrepit car at that unwashed, unkempt with the driver havin......

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...Treason Reasons Concreted cracks, abandoned train tracks, unaffordable housing built like shacks. ......

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...For three score years and little more you lived Did you at once think of yourself? Did you at once rest? When the heartless sun bitterly scotched your back You never thought of it You concentrat......

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