FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: GRASS LEAVES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words grass and/or leaves, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on January 17th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Grass Leaves will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 25th between 3 and 5 pm PST

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Lorelei Kay


Gloving it


Yard work yard work

hand in glove with hard work


grass is growing needs a mowing

weeds shoot higher, reaching skyward


those pine needles just keep stackin’

means my rakin’ best get crackin’


zinnias all need fertilizing 

so their blooms can start their rising


patio could use a washing

brushing, splashing, bubbles sloshing 


bird bath needs a thorough stripping

don’t want any blue jays tripping


soon must trim my roses back

while keeping thorns from their attack


old trellis needs a good restaining 

‘cuz next week it might start raining


maybe I’ll create a pathway

placing pavers under archways


rocks we’ve hauled from many Jeep runs

need arranging under hot suns


I’ll gloss them up to make them shine

and place so their best sides align


outside chores seem never-ending

why my back is always bending


the sweat keeps dribbling down my neck

oh yeah I’m looking like a wreck


yard work yard work—always need to glove it

yard work hard work—MAN, how much I love it!


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