Best Columned Poems

"When I consider Southern Poetry, the soft breeze of grace and majesty of the Old South comes back, like a long ago paradise of flowers, cotton fields, hanging trees and song birds, a sweat savor. Christian Southern Gentlemen and their Ladies Fair, their majestic columned...

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Drenched of hell’s insanities 



Sending chills this tortured spine, 
as aches precede the worded fiction
Sorted truth does rest sublime 
beneath the light of benediction
Broken dreams of compass flair, 
directions cast a blinded waning
Trusted roots abridge the square 
of all that’s lost and is remaining

Washed along...

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from: "Me to You", by Alastair Reid

"...write me about the weather.

Perhaps
a letter across water,
something like this, but better,
would almost take us strangely
closer to home.

Write, and I'll come."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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The Whittlers

The stately county courthouse was their usual meeting place,
a columned Greek Revival, and a lovely public space.
They sat upon their benches under lofty pecan trees,
wood shavings on their ankles and some cedar twixt their knees.

Those old boys were called the whittlers, but that was...

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My Dream Vacation

                  To return once more to Italy where the forgotten places
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In a peculiar puny town nestled in western Massachusetts,
There lives an enchanted mansion in the Wilbraham woods,
Hidden in the hills away from the eastern city's pollutants,
Where the creme de la creme masquerades in cowled hoods.

Around the mansion there lives but only one kind of tree:
The...

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Silver, cool, harsh rock-smooth as rolled steel on the horizon defies the cold blue-violet sky of Mars as the pinpoint dots of distant white suns circle in wonder of the scene.

Green mist hanging from the verdant leaves of the thick mountain forest permeates the humid...

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Rounding Out Reality

Rounding out reality
Dreams fall down on columned nights
Walls fade in golden mist
Swirl into the clarity of day
A kiss is tangible in the distance
Flavored vapors and water come
From the last midnight rain engagement
Came and went away with sleep, pure with sentiment
Sweet sense and fragrances...

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Beneath a columned structure people watch
     As man and beast compete in a deadly match
        Soon the drama  before them will unfold
 A drama contested by the very  bold

 In the distance...

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Inch past spiteful inch I crawl my way out of this hole.
Whilst this screech columned cylinder connected to 
my soul sustains a silent scream, residing incandescent in 
my chest. And fledgling veins support my effort for early release.

Flexible nails sit upon freshly formed fingers, each
numb...

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I bought my house for its mirrored walls 
in the master bath from which you could fancy 
yourself as a forties' film star, your flawless 
body soaking in billowing suds, or stepping into 
a glassed-in shower, large enough for a tryst 
with Tarzan, be he...

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Congregated on a bone-white columned hill,
Wielding Thor’s great hammer, raging on at will,
Raining Odin’s thunder upon resounding blocks,
Indulging gilded beggars of fortune’s ticking clocks,
Deploying more and more to feed the desert gulls,
Fenrir’s pack forever howls, while bloody fangs indulge.

07/25/14...

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a cherished paper-cutting

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The old, columned front porch is sagging
Sad shutters hang on the bias abandoned,
Broken panes neglected as weather crept in 
Still their silent voices call out with warmest hospitality.

[Lind30WCU, 7,7,7,9]

FIRST PLACE WINNER
Written January 26, 2022
especially for "Lind30WCU Poetry Contest"
sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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Endowed in size
Endowed in shape
The Mr of Men
Our bodies draped.
 
Religious belief
Personal choice
Makes him speak
With a different voice.
 
Blood induced
As his stature grows
Columned pose
Erectness flows.
 
Pleasurable scenes
Pleasured in ways
This Mr of Men
Stars in many plays.
 
Passioned in stroke
In loves say
Eruption of joy
Loving spores spray.
 
Absorbed...

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