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TERSE VERSENow big problems kick in
cos of our carbon sin
from all of that burning
now the see-o-two gas
from fossil biomass
in atmosphere amass
we dump our dioxide
polluting air worldwide
this...
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Categories:
earth, environment,
Form: Rhyme
In The Hush Of DawnWhen silence speaks....
In the still hush of dawn serene
Silence speaks of this pastoral scene
Whispers of wind through fields of green ...
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Categories:
environment,
Form: Couplet
TimelapseYou caught me running, constantly looking back,
tears merging within the rain.
If I took a leap, would I fly?
Left behind, the mole above your lip, laughter in your eyes,
jaded progression.
It could have been...
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Categories:
environment, absence, care, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse
I'm a bastardSometimes, I don't recognize the face I see,
Haunted by the echoes of who I used to be.
Influences, reflections, blood ties that bind,
Leave me feeling lost, leaving scars behind.
Ashamed of the shadows...
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Categories:
childhood, conflict, environment, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell taleBrief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale
Living social amidst
crime infested urban jungle
bumping uglies cheek to jowl
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors
spurred subject matter in question
to journey...
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Categories:
environment, adventure, anger, animal, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Green Trees Don't Make ItGreen Trees Don’t Make It
Everyday
I look out and see
The ugly green trees
Standing guard
in front of my house.
And I think to myself
Who owns the trees?
And what do they think of us?
Are we their friends?
Are...
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Categories:
environment,
Form: Free verse
April 17 Prove something God’s Demented Sense of Humor
April 17—Prove something
God’s Demented Sense of Humor
I sometimes think
That God if he/she/it exists
And created the Universe
Must have a demented
Sense of humor.
For how else you can explain
Why he created a parasite
That hides in your system
Totally...
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Categories:
environment, god, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Listening to the birdsListening to the birds as the trees richly green..
Listening to the birds sweet promises of spring..
Listening to the birds, God's promise on a wing..
Listening to the birds and the hope they bring.....
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Categories:
abuse, appreciation, bird, environment,
Form: Light Verse
Ship of FoolsOn a ship of fools without direction,
Along a circuitous trajection,
Sailors from every land and nation
Drift not by chart, but hallucination,
And their lofty voices, at once speaking
A bit louder than the planks...
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Categories:
allegory, environment, humanity, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Picture in the TreeIt has been sitting there for seventy long years, and nobody knew that it was there, it is just a simple tree erected in the backyard surround by an overgrown lawn, the owner is out...
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Categories:
business, deep, environment, flying,
Form: Narrative
Clean AirI remember when clean air used to follow us home.
Leaves and mud would too, but they didn’t hurt us.
Clean air used to swirl.
We would enjoy the purity.
So would bees and wasps.
I didn’t care for the...
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Categories:
environment,
Form: Free verse
MANEUVERABLE MANURE-"Running through a mile of wasted compiled vile
I find myself conflicted sitting in a position
groaning I'm foul planting a seed of tan and brown
the snake comes out of me and it flees...
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Categories:
environment, allusion, analogy, anxiety, caregiving,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
SONNET FOR PRECIOUS PLANETCan we not show some love for Planet Earth
for it is suffering from our brutal way?
From it we plunder everything of worth
as our numbers grow more and more each day.
We turn resources to polluting waste
that...
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Categories:
earth, environment, planet,
Form: Sonnet
The BuffaloNo one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky stampede
How the great beast dropped its guard and refused to...
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Categories:
environment, animal, city, earth, endurance,
Form: Free verse
My dim wit poetryGood morning, it's just me,
penning, "dim wit poetry",
foot in mouth and pen in hand,
who knows where they may land.
Some poems light and rather sweet,
others swallowed in defeat
by a wet and ever hungry quick sand.....
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Categories:
environment, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Environment Poems
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