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In the herb garden
a small emerald jewel
these warm summer days
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by Scooj
Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil
Tag: poem
Walled garden
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Enclosed assembly
hums rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb
pollinators buzz
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by Scooj
Beautiful noise
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Swifts take the high notes
the air thick with sparrow chirps
and magpies squawking
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by Scooj
Heathrow Terminal 4
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Timed to perfection
surprising even myself
flight delayed an hour
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by Scooj
Call out the guard
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The people fight back
discredit and crush them all
validate response
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by Scooj
The most predictable thing ever
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Like rats in a sack
toxic bromance unravels
we see who you are
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by Scooj
Graze
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England’s lush pastures
pocked with solitary trees
grazed and flat-bottomed
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by Scooj
Common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)
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My poor failing eyes
so slow to settle on the
slender blue beauty
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by Scooj
Ramada nights
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Hotel car park sounds
distant hum of motorway
car music booming
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by Scooj
Leeds
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My ancestral home
a place where spelling my name
isn’t a problem
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by Scooj
- My surname is from West Yorkshire, and it is such a refreshing pleasure not to have to spell it out when checking in to hotels, or confirming restaurant bookings etc. It is not a common name in the south.
Natural adventures 