Best Concord Poems

Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them 
I swing around enormous trees 
skirt quickly...trying to catch up

were we holding hands as we walked
...did we hold hands?
I can't recall
but the muster of us like the gun smoke
infiltrates the air here

murmurs
rattlings like...

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Teardrops fall,upon tiles of black and white,
playing the hearts melody,a soulful insight,
key's of seven,scaling higher notes,
crying octaves,which the soul has slowly wrote....

The flats and the sharps,added to the strings,
enhancing the feeling,which despondency brings,
distant wanderings,in search of understanding,
only too find,the distant meanderings....

Sheets of music,arranged and composed,
within'...

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There is a house on Nashatuck hill in Concord
with beautiful open spaces
It was built in the 1930s
and it has an Adirondack style porch that looks out over 
a small valley and Concord center
The house has three stories
and on every story the detail work is craftsmanship
shining...

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We sat down as poets
Arbitrarily pushing buttons
To spark, NO, to Ignite the fire
in our bellies to spew from one mouth.

The words of which i lost
Riding on the train
while knowing the brakes were out, 
a skid, a stop, NO, a Slam
 
into Reason.

Not a poet, mere...

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I am walking…
my footfalls…yellow and green
cause I am very green now 
…and perhaps a little yellow 
over the bridge that heard the first return …I wander
musket powder dusted rails remain in staunch salute
flickering time travelers catch in my mind’s eye
blood stained earth echoes 
over there...

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Mystery discreetly disclosed.
Changing moods reveal details of shades
edit
Designed by nature with a clue,
Watchful minds eye, will break the venue.
edit
Blended aspiring deployment,
Thine story so brightly depicted....

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Kids
Hear
Circus
Coming to town
Posters go up on
Square, 'tween boys see the ad ask to
Go, father says get all your chores done, gives them a dime
Boy! were they happy just sitting in that crowd, joy, animals, acrobats; one yells fire, jump, 
run...

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When they see a lone mien with no chum near, 
They say I may be fraught with a crippling fear; 
They feel I am just another remorseful creep, 
Battling guilty pangs many soul-inches deep. 

Truly feeling external eyes can hardly see
The countless faithful mates seated...

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R W Emerson 'CONCORD HYMN'

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He is eager to break a record
But a lot plays with loafers’ record:
The Leanest Time to wonders accord …

He is The Gasping for a record
But in his left ear an oft fixed cord;
Not with scholarship in accord …

The Anxious-to-Create-a-Record
Still in his heard speeches Hacked Concord
And...

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If you can help yourself.? And yet not harm another, you're doing real  well (dear sister dear brother!) If you can resist the pressure.? For it seems always to come.?? It sort of pops
Right up.' Then it's slander' And to spare..Also advice on how...

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18th April 1775 on the strong big-boned mare
'Brown Beauty' may have been her name
borrowed from John Larkin a very good horse
of Narragansett Pacer fame
a copper-bottomed silversmith
Son of Liberty Patriot and Boston-born
riding with Prescott and Dawes toward Lexington
then Concord minutemen in advance to warn
of the British...

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