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Charleston Poems - Poems about Charleston

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Premium Member Sweet Grass Sunset
...Beneath the sunset, tall sweet grass sways silently, Charleston Bay sighs. Gold kisses green at day's end, gentle waves of amber light.......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, sunset,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Charleston Merman
...We were vacationing in the state of palm trees and seashore in September's mild loveliness. Me, a sexagenarian widow, hobbled by arthritis in my knees. As my family enjoyed the surf, I sat cont......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dark Enthusiasm
...by cherbo geeplay Sometimes I swear I see the clouds closing in, always like a high tide boiling the ocean waves. Now I can't move my limbs and immobile tongue. I am speechless in a......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, conflict, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Culture Clash
...I was a college music teacher, engaged in pitch, tempo, rhythm and melody, As lavish planets dance around a golden star, with the zeal of fuchsia fidelity. I taught harmony, vocals and singing, a......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, beauty, dance, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, absence, america, anxiety, baptism,
Form: Free verse



I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding
...I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding... the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens, after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity. How did the human species ma......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, africa, america, anger, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remind You of Anybody
...Stella Lou was outside a long time What is she doing out there? Her grandpa asked. Why don’t you peek out? Suggested grandma. Stella Lou was in a long conversation with their pony. Charleston, t......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, daughter, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
You Raise Your Knee
...you raise your knee then stamp the foot down in a quick thrust as a mare in warning, snap your head back we lock eyes then meld in each other's arms we move together your hand upon my hip my ......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, dance, dedication, devotion, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Decoration Day
...On May 1, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina, Freed African Americans held a parade of 10,000 In honor of 257 dead Union soldiers, whose remains they had reburied from a mass grave in a Confeder......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, appreciation, memorial day, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Indiscriminate Slayings of the Innocents
...The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP. It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives, Have recorded everything, which occurred, from......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, abuse, angel, baby, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Footle Dance May 19
...CHARLESTON kick feet off beat NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not n......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, dance, word play,
Form: Footle
Premium Member A Chow Chow Injustice
...A sweet Chow Chow called Charleston Dinah Was court-ordered to go back to China Told: Leave the U.S. You made this covid mess! She arfed: You nut I’m from North Carolina! Written 5/12/22......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, humor,
Form: Limerick
Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom Hashoah
...Thoughts on Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC Sam Adams Had never been To the Holocaust Museum, Despite the fact He had lived And worked in DC for decades One ......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, discrimination, holocaust, jewish,
Form: Free verse
The Super Chief
...The railroad played a major role in the growth of our nation It was an elite form of travel beginning at the station The month was September, the year 1825 A date to remember when the railways ......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, america, appreciation, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Dance
...While careening with Carene, a boogie-woogie with Wanita, wow! Then, a whirl with Pearl, a jiggy jig with Jacqueline. At intervals rhumba with a Rosalie. An experimental ballet with Bonnie, Bob......Read the rest...
Categories: charleston, dance, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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