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Backwater Junction
...Backwater junction in a backwoods town Rusty and creepier than a carnival clown Timber rattlesnakes hide their slanted eyes No one visits this woodpile, no big surprise......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
backwater,
places,
Form:
Rhyme
PURE NORMALITY
... EVERYTHING IS NORMAL The backwater dreams is catching the winds to become a whirlwind again... The past daydreams of recovering time to live the present... Rest revel......
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Alkas Poetry
Categories:
backwater,
allusion, analogy, perspective,
Form:
Couplet
Deciduous discomforts
...I started chopping, one by one the non gratae parts of my Temple, while unbeknownst to me pebbles were already spreading whispers in all directions. Shh..don’t speak so loud You might as well ......
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Mihaela Radu
Categories:
backwater,
analogy, angst, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
Here To Eternity
... When Time sails into it's last port, and fever for the Truth is stowed- as an incubant reality -that you wish had aroused sooner, it's queried symptom with more fervored pedigree of......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
backwater,
art,
Form:
Free verse
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
...Neigh say being corralled & cult shod "Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis" translation = thus always I bring death to tyrants.” Above the fray of twittering, squabbling, and madding crowd......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
backwater,
12th grade, age, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
survivors
...survivors The captain called up the harbor authorities needed a birth a ship no one had heard of, but its manifest stated Sydney-bound They let the ship birth on a disused pier far from the city......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
backwater,
betrayal, corruption, dream, humanity,
Form:
Blank verse
A River Leads
...Spanish Moss hangs over my face a gentle caress green filaments brush my hair. The flat-bottomed boat glides on a slow current but it pushes me, it urges - but to where? Florida has a lot of......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
backwater,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part I
...Now I know you’ve heard the story of how I all was way back when, when cowboys rode with Indians near our small town of Buzzard’s Bend. Not long after the Civil War, when it was a hot mining c......
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David Welch
Categories:
backwater,
corruption, god, hero, history,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Schisms
...We are winded and on the ropes. Backwater banjo boys strum against us. Clouds feed upon a shoaling light. A bad day for going out or staying in. A time to be sleepless. We must live timidly, or p......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
backwater,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Odds and Ends
...He was always dressed in fashion And as he walked down the street Not many people noticed That he’d got both left feet He wore wide flared long trousers Boots with very square toed ends They c......
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Terry Ireland
Categories:
backwater,
fantasy, fun, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Low Steps Into Sunrise
...A bottom land where green is thread through with a trailing mud. A late fruited decay seeps and smears these low meadow pasture. Pot-bellied dewdrops hang, strung upon spawny strings. He......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
backwater,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
National Poetry Day 2016
...National Poetry Day is over Over two hours on the stage. That's one hellova long time For one of my advancing age. This is the Poetry city. The talent just abounds, Mixing in the bars and pubs ......
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Terry Ireland
Categories:
backwater,
art, celebration, culture, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Backwater Justice
...Poor Earl Crabtree, they tried him for murder He claimed innocence; he’d never hurt her But Earl was transgender He’d gone on a bender Pleaded guilty ~ he’d tried to pervert her......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
backwater,
america, motivation, murder,
Form:
Limerick
Interesting Times
...We are winded and on the ropes. Backwater banjo boys strum against us, clouds prey upon our minds. Bad days for going out or staying in. A time to be sleepless to be dazed by the pal......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
backwater,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Story of a Fallen Star
... Just Before Curtain Up Oh Yes! My career!.. It's behind me. And the bright lights I’d worked so hard for Now they’ve airbrushed my face That looks so out of place On that......
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Gary Radice
Categories:
backwater,
appreciation, family, star, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
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