Category: poem
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musings on grass*
Vibrantly persistent meadow grass dances rhythmically to the beat of a breeze that breathes politely across taken-for-granted landscapes carpeted in verdant swathes of emerald deep pile. Flexible it bends before the strongest gale. Ever-thirsty it greedily consumes the heaviest rainfall yet dries buttery-beige under the summer sun to yield, apparently barren, to scythes and…
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unnursery rhymes
I have been re-writing some nursery rhymes to make them more topical but probably not suitable for children: mind you, were the originals okay? What do you think? Is it all a bit unnursery? Three blind mice, three blind mice. See how they run, see how they run. They all ran after the farmer’s wife…
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dis
In an early edition of yesterday’s bloggage I made a typo that completely changed the meaning of a phrase. I had edited what I had written from ‘I do not agree…’ to ‘I profoundly disagree…’ I replaced the ‘do not’ with ‘profoundly’ and thought that I had successfully added ‘dis’ to the front of ‘agree’…
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advent haiku* poem
one Word has fulfilled hopes and fears of all the years: Anticipation Be blessed, be a blessing *Traditional Haiku poems have 17 syllables in groups of 5, 7, 5
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I am a loser
This pome what I wroted a while back summarises how I feel at the moment: Symbiosis My wife says I’m a loser I’m inclined to think she’s right. I don’t know where my things are but She doesn’t share my plight. Though my keys aren’t where I leave them She always finds them there. Somehow…
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