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Fencepost Poems - Poems about Fencepost

Premium Member Juncos
...Pretty juncos flutter in my backyard. One sits on a fencepost, clearly on guard. They wander through the weeds, eating insects and seeds, but fly when they hear my big Saint Bernard!......

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Categories: fencepost, bird, nature,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Burma-Shave
...They stood like rhymes on fencepost spines with wisdom scrawled in shaving thymes— a roadside gospel, terse and sweet that preached with meter, grit, and heat. Rosemary likes a clean-shave......

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Categories: fencepost, america, childhood, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Still Blinking III
...First, remove the eyelids— they hold too much fiberglass. Grind streetlight into gunpowder, cut it with gravel—snort the cocaine dusk. Take the sidewalk like heretic communion, metal-flake wine,......

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Categories: fencepost, angst, romantic love, satire,
Form: Lyric
Midnight Confessions
...First, remove the eyelids— they hold too much fiberglass. Grind streetlight into gunpowder, cut it with gravel—snort the cocaine dusk. Take the sidewalk like heretic communion, metal-flake wine,......

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Categories: fencepost, allegory, corruption, courage, Lullaby,
Form: Blank verse
Gifts of the Winter Witch
...A venetian red yearling’s head Pops up From behind a fallen log Licks rouge from its lips And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark Ears tweaking To the snow-crunch creak Of my dog and me appr......

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Categories: fencepost, angel, animal, earth, january,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member acknowledgement
... I’m a fencepost With barbed wire Leaning On the prairie I don’t know What I’m keeping in Or What I’m keeping out I’m just a fencepost With barbed wire Lean......

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Categories: fencepost, allegory, deep, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's weariness o'ertakes me
...Life’s weariness o’ertakes me Each step demanding more Calling forth a shivering strength Leaning on a rickety fencepost Turning its face from the stinging gale Whispers of weakness winnowing re......

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Categories: fencepost, dark, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The illusion of timeless silence
...The ILLUSION of a TIMELESS SILENCE Drenched the RUSTIC creaking barn Its tortured wind scarred face Snarling at the SWIRLING winds A lonely BLOSSOM sprouts atop a fencepost Mice scurry about a......

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Categories: fencepost, farm, history, memory,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I'm Here
...I won't leave you Bluebird Forever I will be Your troubadour in waiting Where no one else can see My heart is yours, it has been I penned a little note Then hid it in a fencepost So many ye......

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Categories: fencepost, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Heavenly Rest In Peace
...“Perching on a fencepost, the meadowlark calls in sweet trilling tones like a solo marimba.” L. Milton Hankins The meadow lark happily sits along the fencepost singing away and watches as Milton ......

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Categories: fencepost, beautiful, bird, heaven, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Still-Life
...Perching on a fencepost, the meadowlark calls in sweet trilling tones like a solo marimba. I mimic her voice and watch her curiosity as I stroll among the goldenrod and yarrow, the ......

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Categories: fencepost, autumn, bird, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Robin
...In the meadow a single robin winters over A hearty bird of sturdy disposition and feather Oblivious to the cold, he thrives; moreover, Appearing now and then despite the weather. A ......

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Categories: fencepost, bird, winter,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Greeter
...yellow meadowlark offering sweet melodies atop a fencepost my mood suddenly lightened I stroll toward the woodland Written May 23, 2022......

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Categories: fencepost, bird, song,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Pranking
...When morning comes too early in the day, And I have not yet begun to plan the afternoon I shall make some time for myself to play. For such a day leaves room to be the buffoon, And find the tim......

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Categories: fencepost, fun,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Hot Yoga Chick
...She’s a switchblade, blackjack, Knuckle-duster dame. Got the proper block and tackle, Lash your rigging to the frame. She put the drill press to your taproot And the grindstone to your saber. G......

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Categories: fencepost, allegory, women,
Form: Lyric

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