Ode To a Garlic Press
...Oh, my precious press, you are my
praise-worthy kitchen helper.
You take a clove of fresh garlic, bland,
and soon it becomes a brilliant burst in
minced, crushed, or creamy paste.
My...
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Categories:
wild garlic, appreciation, feelings, food, imagery,
Form: Ode
Nature Unleashed
...Deep breath of pure mountain air
Away from chaos a moment rare
Radiant gorse with bright yellow flowers
Thriving on gentle Celtic showers.
Heather growing unrestrained
Amethyst glow o...
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Categories:
wild garlic, nature,
Form: Couplet
Kindling Kindness
...Finally, she could get down on her knees again, not in prayer but to touch rosemary and lavender which had begun to send its fragrance into the spring and rising warmth in nature’s heart. There was n...
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Categories:
wild garlic, happiness,
Form: Haibun
Afflictions and Perspectives
...foisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier
it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire
of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket
her eyes w...
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Categories:
wild garlic, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Woodland Walks
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the footpaths that stretched
out of sight until never
the parched ground and grasses
when miles seemed forever
wild garlic, the nettles
the heat and the heather
the flies that would <>
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Categories:
wild garlic, earth, insect, nature, summer,
Form: Monorhyme
Traveller
...She came upon me in a dream deep down from within my destination
Which coursed the mind and soul of years for my memories' inspiration
The path was crowded with bouncing hooves and wagons decor...
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Categories:
wild garlic, dream,
Form: Rhyme
St Govan Chapel
...Saint Govan’s Chapel
They stood with their raincoats and rubber boots at the top of the cliff
Clothed in anger and fear they braced the elements and honoured the Saint
A hermit had lived in ...
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Categories:
wild garlic, love,
Form: Free verse
Coed Garnllwyd Walk, Llancarfan
...A glance from the field displays a line of green,
Waving back and forth, for as far as can be seen,
A chosen path the gentle scrub has allowed through,
Human interaction has created steps too,
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Categories:
wild garlic, appreciation, color, environment, flower,
Form: Free verse
Shark Soup
...Tim had all the necessary ingredients right next to his ancient burner
Shark teeth dangling from a sunken necklace at the cutting edge but
The amulet had turned into chains and shackles grind...
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Categories:
wild garlic, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Mells Bells
...Mells' Bells.
Not far from a little town in Somerset called Wells
there's a quiet little village, that's name is Mells
the wild garlic grows in abundance there, and stridently smells
But the pe...
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Categories:
wild garlic, fun,
Form: Free verse
The Dingle
...The Dingle
Now pleasures few
past contentment knew
the Summer walks
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Categories:
wild garlic, childhood, dream, summer,
Form: I do not know?
Tears On the Wind
...I turned slowly around and met tears on the wind
As from tattered cloud memories I heard once again
Every verse of the poetry we once composed
As we bathed in life’s whispers, so safe from life’s ...
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Categories:
wild garlic, beauty, break up, cry,
Form: Rhyme
The Wildflowers of Pembrokeshire
...I marvel
At the rich colours
In Springtime as I walk the lanes,
Explore the woods and cliffs of Pembrokeshire.
‘Cliff clover’,
The ‘sea pink’ or Thrift.
Clumps of pink, colonising coasts.
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Categories:
wild garlic, beauty, flower,
Form: Fibonacci
Prophylactic Measures
...Wild garlic flowers encompassed
her youthful, porcelaneous
neck as she slumbered in her bed.
Two silver crucifix bracelets
securely fastened to both wrists.
Her rhythmic inspirations hea...
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Categories:
wild garlic, holiday,
Form: Verse
Foragers Feast
...Sea purslane & wild garlic
A pot roasted rabbit
cooked with boletus fungi
Winter chantrelles
Japanes knotweed
Apple juice
Wild!...
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Categories:
wild garlic, food, nature, places
Form: Epulaeryu
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