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Creosote Poems - Poems about Creosote

Missing the Cranes
...You were sharp|ning grass With your eyes | sit & fixed Again | a substitute for mow|n Machine chug|ging along lug Nuts, molar friction | u - r - n . Lawn stretches of up|beat Beach | was there ......

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Categories: creosote, anxiety, conflict, grief, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gentle Earth, I Beg of You -
...Gentle Earth, I beg of you – Whisper to us the first sign of spring. Annul this wintry despair And a season of life anew, bring. From the depths of Baja Carry the warmth in upon a draft. Pok......

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Categories: creosote, earth, march, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poetry In Motion Contest Cricket
...April and the clocks forward spring, our cricket practice gets in full swing. Nets to untangle from their poles, players to call and enrol. Gang mowers to grease and oil, the team kit-bag to d......

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Categories: creosote, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Angel On the Mantel
...the angel on the mantel comes from an old wagon road that cuts from desert brush into the burnished hills where creosote breaks up and scatters at the base of the Chiricahuas where Fort Bowi......

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Categories: creosote, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tarnished Stones
...A creosote frown mars the stony landscape. Time’s sundial remnant a tilting chimney shadow circling a homestead memory. The foundation survives the dream remains tangled in ivied struggle l......

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Categories: creosote, america, change, immigration, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Captain Courageous
...april starts clocks forward spring practice in full swing nets untangled from their poles players to contact & enroll gang mowers greased&oiled kit-bag dis-embroiled grass-stained pads whit......

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Categories: creosote, nostalgia, sports, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Cholla's Legacy
...A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes and barren rocks-- sixteen miles from the golden rays of western tomorrow. Time is played out i......

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Categories: creosote, america, appreciation, august, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Down the Jersey Shore
...Winding lines of cars Stop and go on black paved roads Driving down the shore Bright umbrellas pose Sitting on a sandy beach Lolling in the sun The smell of hot dogs salty air and creosot......

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Categories: creosote, beach, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
Sonora: the Desert
...Harsh sunlight beats upon the thirsty land And glares upon the limestone cliffs and sand, While waves of heat rise shimmering, above The parched loam where the great saguaros stand. And perc......

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Categories: creosote, animal, environment, nature, paradise,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Last Spike
...The Last Spike Helios orb peers cautiously with guarded optimism through cracker-slatted clouds as Thor's divine implement shatters the morning stillness with the clap of a sonic boom Me......

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Categories: creosote, butterfly, endurance, family, hilarious,
Form: Prose Poetry
Desert Morning
...Desert Morning A stiff little north breeze, still cold from the night, shoves warm condensate into my fists and face from my coffee. It was good to assemble that coffee. Then a little weed. A b......

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Categories: creosote, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Back Creek Smells
...Back Creek Smells My nose senses the unseen, Like a final Act’s scene, When I arrive near the Bay, I sense my sinuses are gray, From inhaling the city. Fish scents replace the gritty, ......

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Categories: creosote, life, music,
Form: Light Verse
End
...The tent of Autumn is wet, Nights as dark as creosote, Days that fall like Mother apples which bruise With cold sweetness. The impending conspiracy of Frost;Laburnums stripped to Bare fram......

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Categories: creosote, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow Over You
...Talk to me Creosote poisons Rattlesnakes bite And the white bird sings In the night There’s a hollow in the night Following the footsteps Your eyes are cryptic You got a shadow over you I can see ......

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Categories: creosote, evil,
Form: I do not know?
The Walk
...It was a long walk, with time heeling at my shadow. (and somewhere miles away the garage door closed, and the exhaust flowed, and a small dog died in her limp arms) I was friendly with God. Only wit......

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Categories: creosote, bird, imagination, passion, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry

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