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Abutment
Abutment Poems - Poems about Abutment
Dams
...Dams I’ve worked to build dams, Gravity and stability From heel and toe to crest, From bedrock to top; From abutment to abutment, The obstacle looms: Earth dams and concrete dams, An......
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Dennis Spilchuk
Categories:
abutment,
environment, river, work,
Form:
Verse
O Blessed Kalapana
..."Kalapana fishing village laid west of Mount Pu'u O'o. Our home was behind the church that sat on an abutment tip that rose slightly higher. The lava poured from the east side of our home, covering i......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
abutment,
appreciation, death, emotions, eulogy,
Form:
Ode
Formidable flourishing fiends
...Formidable flourishing fiends... harangue since landing yours truly immersed in a dream-like fiercesome state of war, not quite a dream can be described as a "hypnagogic state" whil......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutment,
angst, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny
...AntiPoem 4 “Santo and Johnny” (Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading) Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass Just oozing out their mel......
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Stark Hunter
Categories:
abutment,
memory,
Form:
Free verse
Humus Me My Vegetated Chokes Ingest
...Humus me? My vegetated chokes ingest! (jokes all in jest) Hard to believe, I orange in a lee started life as barely visible speck! Just in the course of healthy growing season, this former m......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutment,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Bio
Unconditional Paternal Love Toward Shana Punim
...Screaming writhing violent uncontrollable spasms of abandonment immediately followed her (like Mary's lamb) where e'er she went verbal communication attempt didst rent ear piercing outpouring ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutment,
appreciation, beautiful, daughter, freedom,
Form:
Ballad
Messianic Zeal of This Good Humored Punster
...Messianic Zeal Of This Good Humored Punster... Without making a twit tarring buffoon, sans unshackle irrepressible bone a fide funny reaction, or appearing the foolish spectacle of myself, ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutment,
art, games, humorous, magic,
Form:
Free verse
Treasure Hunt
...Treasure Hunt If perchance you go to the park they call Wilderness look for the maroon bridge that spans across the great divide between the untamed land of the woods and the coarse grass ......
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Anne-Marie Coreggia
Categories:
abutment,
dream, nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Day
...some days I just feel that way the way I feel alone today my soul alone, mind in a fray some days I feel alone today alone today to face the fears wearing grinding of the gears things are not what t......
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Goode Guy
Categories:
abutment,
angst, introspection, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lettuce Workers
...The Lettuce Workers Somewhere in California a midnight one-eyed bus shoots lettuce farm past lettuce farm to abutment and a kiss. Now the morning papers cry 15 sleeping Mexicans glow......
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Donal Mahoney
Categories:
abutment,
on work and working
Form:
Free verse