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Root Cellar Poems - Poems about Root Cellar


That Smell
...That Smell That smell I know But can not place Is from my youth A certain space That smell I know Is so familiar Musty and cold Like an root cellar That smell I know Brings me right ......

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Categories: root cellar, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023
...Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023 The following constitutes a rather twisted as a pretzel SUBTITLE: I dash with my jiggling boobs in an attempt to escape... being overrun by teddy bears and bean......

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Categories: root cellar, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother's Favorite Flower
...Mother said of all the mid-summer flowers she loved best, The common garden dahlia was clearly her favorite. Every Spring she carefully hand-placed the sturdy tubers, Tenderly caring for each one,......

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Categories: root cellar, flower, memory, mother,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Survivor Hope Chests
...Survivor Hope Chests by Odin Roark I’m of flesh and blood hearing distant melodies somewhere way back behind the leafless tree, the chicken coop, or root cellar, ......

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Categories: root cellar, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
...I heard the owl call my name, like a backbeat in a child's voice, etched in shadows of a father's grave, lonely echoes on a frosted night... at dawn I'll be immortal again, renewed by a work......

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Categories: root cellar, dream, war, , cute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reflections of You
...I caress the blooms of the lilac bush and breathe their sweet fragrant breath. Here in my garden where spring has risen from the melting heart of winter’s death. And when a gentle breeze kisses my f......

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Categories: root cellar, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blue Harvest Moon
...Comes silently on sorrel moccasins roosted on tortoiseshell of root cellar singing, stumbling in numb imaginings lit with half-light vegetables squeezed in jars of russet and avocado ......

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Categories: root cellar, childhood, imagination, nature, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things