The Drop Tine Bull
...The brindled drop tine bull
Brings his herd along the fence
He steers the steers and leers at me
His look not quite intense
We ponder life, each his own strife, this old cow boy and me
He cle...
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Categories:
water tank, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Camel
..."A camel is an animal which all of us should thank,
if we were desert travellers far from a water tank"
This was dictated by my 95 year old mother, from her childhood in the 1930's. I am trying ...
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Categories:
water tank, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Drain Pipe and Mr Water Tank
...Mr Drain Pipe and Mr Water Tank
Oh I really do hope Mr Drain Pipe and
Mr Water Tank can
reach a
common decision about:
the best garden design (backyard at
this stage), the right shape and...
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Categories:
water tank, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty
...The beauty
Of
Namatjira
White haired
Bark painter's
Of fish
Wandjina
Feathered man
Full sunset
Corroboree
Pintubi
Dancers
In watercourse
Colours
Of hills
And rangers
Near Henbury
Or...
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Categories:
water tank, art, courage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Little Adobe House
...Little adobe house on 160 acres
She grows flowers. I grow corn
Tomatoes, watermelon, etc.
Peace, love, hope, and joy
Grow themselves
Porch faces orange blazes
Draped over the rugged Mules
An...
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Categories:
water tank, faith, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Monsters Attack
...in the haze i fix my gaze
to the burning tree in front of me
what a sight in the fading light
burning so bright
the orange glow burning so slow
now it is night the forest is alight
the earlier...
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Categories:
water tank, animal, anxiety, fear, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Pressing
...It’s one of those days when my stomach is pressing against my chest, and my lungs is playing tick tock toe with its own breath. My adrenaline is running a hundred miles marathon per hour and my arter...
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Categories:
water tank, career, community, deep, house,
Form: Narrative
Romancing In the Coconut Tree
...You continue to play the game and looking for someone to blame
You continue to play the game when everything around you is so lame
The days are sprinting by with a profound message from the anxious...
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Categories:
water tank, career, emotions, endurance, environment,
Form: Narrative
Man Talk
...The large Starge
Is a large 500 gallon
Water tank that stands
16 feet high
It collects rain water
And it has a value
a one inch value
Neath the bottom
That is connected to
A turbine, which c...
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Categories:
water tank, business, creation, culture, encouraging,
Form: Ballade
Influenced By Basil Fawlty
...I was influenced by Basil Fawlty
that sarcastic humour really caught me
inappropriate rude crude and naughty
humour against stress which haunts me
I'm the sort some assume a dim bulb
even t...
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Categories:
water tank, england, humor, me,
Form: Rhyme
Fun: The Farm Water Tank
...With a drippy drip drip steady into the tank,
The tank slowly fills like a pond,
The tank with red rusted rippling sides,
Wants to fill to the top and beyond,
And it steadily drips throughout ...
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Categories:
water tank, appreciation, environment, farm, water,
Form: Quatrain
A Fish Who Recognized Nirvana
...A tiny fish in a polluted pond struggled to breathe.
She is suddenly scooped up with a batch of the stinky water.
It is poured off her, and she is plunked into a fresh water tank
With her friends,...
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Categories:
water tank, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Thar: the Deserted Land
...All men have born desires
garland of the prettiest arm.
Want to meet in the loveliest Place
Where no hurdle no harm.
She was waiting to Mr right
Spider webs to trap ju...
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Categories:
water tank, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Crazy Day
...Ever find yourself getting
up on the wrong side of
the bed, knowing your
going to have one of those
days!! Guess what!
everything went wrong,
first, the letters slipped
out of the ma...
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Categories:
water tank, funny,
Form: Free verse
High Kicking Rasberries
...The tale of the high kicking raspberries in two hundred lines of silt and steamed porridge oats.
Keynotes noted kissing keystones keep keystrokes kingly. But kingly is often not associated with ki...
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Categories:
water tank, baby,
Form: I do not know?
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