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Abutments Poems - Poems about Abutments
Three Cheers for Abutments
... Supporting bridges over ravines or gap-toothed kings and queens abutments may be improperly named BUT they’re effective all the same ......
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©
Gershon Wolf
Categories:
abutments,
appreciation, word play,
Form:
Couplet
By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
...By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright offers his unsolicited tidbits as scene courtesy the following virtually staged philosophical insight. Arch back like......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutments,
adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years Ago
...Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago... at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater), and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft amidst plethora of junk emails while practice read......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutments,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
By George Burning Hard, I Shaw Tried To Playwright
...By George (burning hard), I Shaw tried to playwright offers his unsolicited tidbits as scene courtesy the following virtually staged philosophical insight. Arch back like a professional......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutments,
adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Wings Whispering Blissfulness
...Flying dove-like in the midst of a sea of blueness Bringing a warm sensory of quiet and peacefulness A delicate quill floats and moves with the mild breeze Each butterfly represents......
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©
Sotto Poet
Categories:
abutments,
analogy, appreciation, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Rhyme
We Paint Our Caves
...Once lit by flickering torch light with animal tallow mixed with ocher daubed on subterranean rock walls now lit by streetlights or LED headlamp slashes of spray paint and magic markers splatt......
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©
D.W. Rodgers
Categories:
abutments,
symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Collapsed Pedestrian Bridge
...The new 950-ton bridge would beat down time dashing to classes cheat ting vulnerability asper thick traffic putting life at risk, thus laudatory alternative intending to offe......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
abutments,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
House of Ruin
... The howling wind causes the unlatched shutter to bang incessantly against the faded gray wood The upstairs window, that the shutter shields, has spider legs of cracked glass A black widow ho......
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©
Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
abutments,
corruption, dark, house, political,
Form:
Verse
What's In a Name
...What's in a Name? by Preston Hill The Sun gives birth to dawn. We meet for the first time. We introduce. What’s your name? We chat respe......
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©
Preston Hill
Categories:
abutments,
allegory, introspection, life, sun,
Form:
Free verse