Covid Cashier
...Quiet, dawn, Covid.
Biggest accomplishment yesterday: buying toilet paper.
Thanking the young cashier for doing her job.
Feeling a little sick, wearing my mask and gloves,
Spring oblivious to the...
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Categories:
bessemer, fear, nature, poetry, smile,
Form: Free verse
Trial and Error
...The Bessemer furnace eats its fill
It melts and then disgorges its kill
Forged as in the fires of hell
The hard cool steel we know so well
Sharp yet malleable hammered out true
To build with streng...
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Categories:
bessemer, metaphor, strength,
Form: Rhyme
George Washington Cole - 1827 - 1911
...George Washington Cole
1827 – 1911
So here I sleep.
Buried in this dirt.
Covered in this earth.
Returning to the dust.
Finding heaven in the whispers of the wind.
And as for all my friends here,
A...
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Categories:
bessemer, death, universe,
Form: Epitaph
Allways the Lady Katty
...When I first saw her
she was the picture of grace
All clean, perfect, all made up
Southern Girl, southern grace, black face
Beautiful face, beautiful grace
best in the place
She makes hearts ra...
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Categories:
bessemer, artbeautiful, beautiful, red,
Form: Narrative
Queen
...Even though she knows I love her
I cannot tell her and she knows why
It's not because I'm shy
But, I look in her eyes
and they are oceans
every blink a wave
that washes to the shore
Her h...
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Categories:
bessemer, nostalgiaautumn,
Form: Narrative
Sugar
...For every guy
there's a Sugar
a girl you could'nt marry
but wish you could've
(One of three Bessemer Women)...
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Categories:
bessemer, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Haiku